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probalby work GREAT, untill a labor gets ahold of it and uses it for a hammer, nail set, or chisel.... or I drop it onto concrete etc.
I had a driver that as similar and it got wet in my bags... bits rusted and never worked quite the same... that and I f'ed it up trying to clean a little paint out of a slotted screw so i could get the hinges off a door.
Great idea but I'm sticking with my Kline 10 in 1
james
But wait ! ! !
You also get ...
Did you see the ad on the right side of the page? Buy a Bit Shooter, and you get a free power drill. Just pay shipping and handling. And it's even yellow !
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Buy a Bit Shooter, and you get a free power drill. Just pay shipping and handling.
It's prob one of those ultra ultra ULTRA cheap power drills that people always get me for Christmas (yes I got one last Sunday....again) that as soon as you use it you'll swear it was a one time use only drill because it either breaks, has no power and I overload it and burn it out (it's fun, you should try it), or it's just utterly worthless in some other way.
My FIL used to buy me these all the time because I would tell him they'd break during use, so he thought I could use another one. Really after like the second time I just started tossing them in the can after he left from my opening them on Christmas. I just kept propogating the story that I used them and they'd break, and next year I'd get another. He must pay like $5 for them. Finally I had the heart to tell him to stop, and why. He got a little offended when I said for all he's paid for cheap drills he could've gotten me a nice VSR DeWalt. If at first you don't succeed, try using a hammer next time...everything needs some extra persuasion from time to time. -ME
Re: "Great idea but I'm sticking with my Kline 10 in 1"Looks murphoid to me. With 24 tips I think I would spend too much time getting to the right ones. I have a 10in1 and sometimes I have to fiddle to find what I want. With a six-way I know what tip is in it and how to get what I want without looking at it. Handy when working in the dark. But my six-way is also a compromise. Nothing can match a screwdriver that is designed to be used on one type of screw. The rigidity and firmness can't be beat. There are no tips or attachments to lose or wobble. On the other hand carrying the six different drivers it would take to replace my six-way would be both bulky and heavy.With 24 I could never have such confidence. Perhaps I'm wrong but I think this unit has a common problem with so many tools: They try to do too much. Trying to be everything to everyone they don't do much of anything very well.There are places where doing a bit of everything but nothing really well is OK. I carry a Leatherman that it mostly good because it is the tool I have close to hand not because it is the best tool for the job. using my Leatherman for production work is silly if I have regular, full-sized tools anything like handy.
probalby work GREAT, untill a labor gets ahold of it and uses it for a hammer, nail set, or chisel
If that tool was in my toolbox I can positively 100% guarantee it'l get used for every possible thing it wasn't meant to be used for. Namely, a chisel, "pry" bar or a ramming device to break lath from behind plaster, or....the list goes on. It'd never be used a screwdriver I promise you that. My box has LOTS of screwdrivers in various states of abuse and tortured appearances. Then I get mad because when I DO need a screwdriver I curse them because they're so deformed or broken they won't work as a proper screwdriver. Damn screwdrivers....they ought be made to serve other uses than to twist stupid screws.
I always ask for Screwdrivers for Christmas for this reason. I got a decent set last Sunday and it won't be a full week before they're broken in, if you know what I mean. I'm thinking perhaps as early as tomorrow, as I have a bunch of holes to cut in lath/plaster rewiring a second floor old house.
Now why can't they make something like this for chisels, I always seem to dull the blades after 5 minutes of use and I'd love to be able to "shoot out" a new chisel blade after I've destroyed the other one. If at first you don't succeed, try using a hammer next time...everything needs some extra persuasion from time to time. -ME
olfa makes a chisel where you just snap off the dull blades and go back to work..... makes a better knife than chisel but if Billy would just get behind it I bet he could move a million.... :)
james
Biggest screwdriver in the toolbox is a sturdy 12" long beast. Had some slick ice on the concrete steps a couple of winters ago. Guess what got used to chip it out?could've lit a fire with all the sparks that thing was putting out (one corner has a nice beveled edge now though . . . . .)
im going to highjack this and tweak it a little
WHAT are some of the dumbest things you have bought... or if you don't want to admit it... blame da wife for it. but come clean... lets hear them
the chief procurer bought this laundry disk... looks like a hockey puck that you put in with the cloths.
Supposedly makes cloths whiter... with less soap.
B as in B S as in S
GoodLuck
Not me, but my friend the Scoutmaster. I'll never let him live it down.
We had an Eagle Scout Project several weeks ago. My friend, Dave, couldn't make it, but his son showed up and pulled out . . . . drum roll, please . . . an AUTOHAMMER ! ! Yep, ugly plastic yellow thing with the magid magnetic nail holder in the head, with the really neat push button nail-dispenser, loads itself, you know. Um, whose is that, Chris ? Dad's, he says.
Oh, I ribbed him good next time I saw him. He claims it was a birthday gift from his daughter, but I know better.
The shame !
Greg
The non chemical toilet bowl cleaner block thing that goes in the tank. Can not see that it does a thing.
I've got one of those Klein 10-in-one as well - great tool.
Freakin' Billy Mays..... ;)
The Breaktimer formerly known as "Steve-O"
"Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use words." - St. Francis of Assisi
He is the man. Anyone that can make $300 million on orange scented water is my hero.---------------
Buy Sam a drink, and get his dog one too.
Billy Mays .....
but wait... you get a tub of oxy clean... orange glo.... the shark vac... the robo towel... the magic trim painter thingy....
I wouldnt buy a thing that billy mays promotes
Goodluck
Re: ... "you get a tub of oxy clean... orange glo.... the shark vac... the robo towel... the magic trim painter thingy"....You suppose they would throw in a Vegamatic and ...Possibly the finest tool as after a long day everyone needs time off ... the 'Pocket fisherman'.Actually it wasn't too bad a fishing device if you weren't too picky or worried about actually catching fish. But then again only a fool thinks fishing, outside the commercial variety, has much to do with catching fish.Take a nap beside a river and people call you lazy. Do it in the presence of a fishing pole with a line dangling into the water, no actual hook or bait required, and they think your 'patient'.I suppose a 24-way cartridge fed screwdriver might work for stuffing into the kitchen drawer. I could see apartment dwellers getting along better with it when faced by the many styles of screw drive designs. As long as it was only a couple of screws.Far less useful on a job site. I suppose it might be OK as a emergency tool of last resort. Stuff it, a leatherman and a bit of duct tape wound round a hank of wire in the glove compartment and between them you might have just enough tool and materials to get the car down the road a mile or two and just enough to get the heat up in the cabin. If that's all you have you make due. A truckload of trade tools and a wide selection of materials would be better but it wouldn't fit in the glove box.Stuff that screwdriver in my tool box and the cartridges will wander off or rust up. By the time I really need it to work it wouldn't. It would survive much longer in a kitchen drawer.
so what your saying..... what you saying... is....
your looking for a good recipe for walleye, cause you used that screw driver to filet that big old walleye... now your just need someone to tell you how to cook it.
I think Billy mays was peddling some shore lunch a few years back
Good luck
He really was peddling shorelunch.. or something like it
:)
I must admit, we use oxyclean from time to time.
The Breaktimer formerly known as "Steve-O"
"Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use words." - St. Francis of Assisi
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I miss Ron Popeil and his "Popeil Dollar Stretchers" Very entertaining.
It's refusing to open here.
They are redirecting to a "secure" page. The kind that the bank uses.
I don't allow that. Too many funky things can be done through a "secure" page.
Someone want to cut and paste ?
=0)
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
I trieds 3 times, but I keep getting error messages from Despero. Says I didn't enter any text, or a recipient. Bull.
There is a place to enter credit card info so you can order on line, so thjat's probably why it's a secure site.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Thanks for trying, ED.=0)
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
Trying to attach a screenshot. The window in the upper right is a movie on the real page.
That works. Thank you.ROFLMAOLike it is so very much more work to pull the bit out of any other bit holding screwdriver, and replace it with a different one !Imagine all the precious time people have wasted out of their lives changing bits by hand. If I don't get one of these TODAY, I just know I'm going to be lying on my death bed wishing I could have all that wasted time back !Ok, wait a minnit...Pull the handle, twist the cylinder, being careful to select the bit you really want... Push the handle back in...No, dangit, not that one. Pull the handle out, twist the cylinder. Hey, wait a minute, maybe it's one of the other cylinders..............Man, I'm glad I figured out what the catch was. I would have wasted even more time if I had gotten one of those.Imagine if I had gotten one of those. I probably would have been lying on my death bed wishing I had never gotten one, and could get all that wasted time back...;o)(Of course we won't discuss all the time I've wasted making stupid posts at BT. When I'm dying, it's that bit shooter that I'm gonna be thinking about...) He he he
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
Hate it when people make fun of the BT X-mas exchange gift I sent. ;)
Seriously though, at first quick glance, this contraption looking for a 3am TV audience, appears to be made by Stanley Tools. All in all, a very clever waste of brittle plastic and mild steel.
I seldom get out of the van without my 15-in-1.http://www.costofwar.com/
Funky things? It's a secure page because if for some ridiculous reason you actually decided you wanted to buy the contraption you could place your order securely from that page. Your ordering information would then be transmitted securely over the net. I wouldn't worry about it.
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It would be worth buying it just to get that awesome drill!
It's gotta be worth at least 99.
Sorry, I meant 99 cents :-)
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what happened to oxyclean? his last plug!!
Oxyclean went mainstream. Now it, or similar under a different name, is available on the laundry isle of most grocery stores. Reason is simple, it works pretty well. It isn't quite the miracle the commercials try to sell but in actual testing and use it is better than a whole lot of detergents and cleaners.One episode of America's test Kitchen, a show that is independent and fairly objective in its testing and evaluations, had a report or what works to remove kitchen type stains from cloths. Oxyclean worked better than most detergents and pretreatments. An interesting result because these folks don't sell the product or own the stock. Products, when the system works as it should, is like evolution. Lot of innovation but only a few make the cut. New designs and products have to compete with existing versions. As it is supposed to work it leads to an ever increasing level of performance.