Favorite Screwdriver

[Puma Cat]

Originally Posted by PHC1

There are quite a few very high quality brands out there. Vessel, Facom, Wiha, Wera, Klein, PB Swiss , Bondhus and even the Japanese Nepros if one can find them.

Personally, I'm a Snap-On kinda guy...here's my favorite screwdriver.

[DonBattles]

I’ve been using Facom for a while now and recently added a set of their insulated screwdrivers as well.

[Doug Lax]

Originally Posted by jdandy

This is my favorite screwdriver. .

Dang I miss you !

[thughes]

Dang I miss you !

... so do I.

[cheater]

Whatever screwdriver I'll use - it'll be VDE one. A VDE screwdriver saved my life once, and I'll be sticking with those. You ultimately never know when you'll need it. I bought the one that saved me on a whim >10 years prior to the near-accident. I was replacing the cable on a power strip (for a longer one) and opened the power strip... turns out it was still energized, and I was touching the ground with my left hand. If my right hand - which was touching the screwdriver shaft at the time - had been holding a non-VDE screwdriver, current would have gone straight through my heart and killed me. The RCD failed (it doesn't respond to the self-test button), the one hand rule failed, I wasn't even wearing shoes, and I forgot to pull the mains plug. Fortunately enough a bit of paranoia from over a decade ago prevailed and all that happened was that one of my fingers got a bit shocked.

Right now I prefer the Wera modular VDE precision screwdriver kit. They make a set where the insulation is flush with the shaft - so the shaft isn't thicker than the driving head. They're really comfortable and, of course, very safe.

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by cheater

Whatever screwdriver I'll use - it'll be VDE one. A VDE screwdriver saved my life once, and I'll be sticking with those. You ultimately never know when you'll need it. I bought the one that saved me on a whim >10 years prior to the near-accident. I was replacing the cable on a power strip (for a longer one) and opened the power strip... turns out it was still energized, and I was touching the ground with my left hand. If my right hand - which was touching the screwdriver shaft at the time - had been holding a non-VDE screwdriver, current would have gone straight through my heart and killed me. The RCD failed (it doesn't respond to the self-test button), the one hand rule failed, I wasn't even wearing shoes, and I forgot to pull the mains plug. Fortunately enough a bit of paranoia from over a decade ago prevailed and all that happened was that one of my fingers got a bit shocked.

Right now I prefer the Wera modular VDE precision screwdriver kit. They make a set where the insulation is flush with the shaft - so the shaft isn't thicker than the driving head. They're really comfortable and, of course, very safe.

Could have used a good insulated screwdriver some decades back when I decided to poke around the back of a CRT computer monitor and found out the hard way what a Flyback Transformer can do in terms of launching a naïve electronic tech/apprentice clear across the room and make them see Jesus as they peel themselves off the wall.

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by cheater

Whatever screwdriver I'll use - it'll be VDE one.

I’m guessing you had one or two other take-always besides choice of screwdriver[emoji41]

[John49]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Could have used a good insulated screwdriver some decades back when I decided to poke around the back of a CRT computer monitor and found out the hard way what a Flyback Transformer can do in terms of launching a naïve electronic tech/apprentice clear across the room and make them see Jesus as they peel themselves off the wall.

A Vox AC-10 guitar amp nearly took me out, in my teens…

[Masterlu]

My biggest shock was getting married.

[cheater]

Looks like my choice of screwdriver is promptly validated! Thanks!