Is there a recommendation for a few good screwdrivers, (is philips the same as posidrive?) I could buy the cheap set from Aldis but I dont think they,d last in oak...
Most of my crosshead screwdrivers are worn and slip
I have a few good old fashioned ones from my dad's toolkit so what i need is a few of these newfangled crosshead types...
No. Philips have tapers on the flats, pozi don't. Wera make good screw drivers, you can get a handle that takes hex shank bits which are useful.
They should, if you put the pilot holes in.
Philips slip anyway.
My recommendation is don't buy a set, buy them individually, all in different styles and colours. It makes them easier to pick out in the toolbox or wherever. If you can find a harlequin set all well and good but they aren't very common.
No.
Screwdrivers that wear out are basically down to poor metal and tempered wrong. Since you're working with oak why are you not using a impact driver? I only use screwdrivers these days on things that are not suited to impact drivers ie electrical work,taking something delicate apart or putting back together ect ect.
I've had this set for over 2 years in daily use
As others have said, why aren't you using a drill driver?
Start with the screw and get a GOOD driver to fit it perfectly.
As someone else said, get one in a distinctive colour as you cannot tell the type by looking at the bit.
No screwdriver stays in perfect condition for ever - they all wear. Of course what the screws are made of influences this. Judging by the quality of other Lidl etc tools might be worth using those and chucking away when worn. They're better quality than Stanley etc that the sheds sell for several times the price - and to get much better you're into Wera etc at megabucks.
because i dont know what an impact driver is...
I have an impact set I hit with a club hammer to undo bolts in my old bus but you mean something else, not the same as my electric screwdirver (crap) and electric drills??
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This Wiki link explains (though it does labour the air powered versions
- we are talking cordless or mains).
Some big boys:
A little boy (what I have got):
Go to Screwfix and search for "impact". (Not all are what we are talking about.)
You are right - the old meaning was the thing you wallop with a hammer.
Wehra and Wiha , Screwfix / Toolstation carry them, not cheap but save a lot of sweary words than when using lesser tools. Facom have properley ground tips, again no cheap. Stanley Magnum are not very good, the tip is painted which flakes off and leaves a looses fitting driver. Snap On screwdrivers barely suitable for levering open tins of paint, triumph of marketing over delivery.
Adam
The Wickes ones are certainly very reasonably priced.
I've been using Halfords screwdrivers for a while now. Quality seems pretty good
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this is surely the way to go. The only thing they can't do is turn a screw thats down a deep narrow recess.
NT
Try our version:
Bought one of these from B&Q several years ago:
As NT says, only shortcoming with this type is deeply recessed screws which need conventional drivers.
"George" wrote in xxxxxx>
thanks for telling me about impact screwdrivers and imact drivers, I was in leominster looking for 2 big shackles and asking about impact screwdrivers when i noticed a blkue thing with no labels or brand name or serial number or part number at all except for S/STOCK £58.69 the 2 people in behind the counter didnt know what it was, they said it was a demonstration sample or something...
I went back and had a look and noticed that it didnt have a ring of choices of torque settings and thus it might be the fabled impact screwdriver, the chap said i could bring it back on monday for a refund so i bought it and brought it home and screwed in 5 screws that were protruding from various ceilings where I hadnt been able to get them in- its fabulous, its like a normal electric screwdriver but when you get to oak it's like it's a petrol sportscar changing gear then you drive the screw slowly into the oak- fantastic -
thanks to the uk-diy team for clueing me in to it... what a tool!
[george]ps the bosch pmf multitool is great at sanding down plastic wood and windows, old paint etc... pps gonna buy some of those newfangled double threaded fixed width screws next week!
i meant to write:
Does it have a chuck like a drill or a pull back ring to insert a bit? Does it start off sounding like a drill driver then start making a hell of a racket?
Agreed, best detail sander I've ever used.
Buy some Turbogold from SF. You won't believe how good they are.
"The Medway Handyman" writ:>
Theres not a chuck like a drill, i havnt managed to get the bit out yet,
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You have to either pull the knurled part away from the tool or towards it, depending on the make & the bit should release.
Sounds like you have an impact driver!
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