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01-31-2015, 06:59 PM
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FWIW: I put the screw on the screwdriver, slide some heat shrink tube over them and apply heat. The heat shrink holds the screw tight without dropping it until I get a few turns in. After this I just pull the heat shrink off and finish the job. It works very well.
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01-31-2015, 07:25 PM
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Thanks for all the replies. I am going to try them, all except the magnet thing. I do not like to get magnets around my tools. I went to the local tool store thinking I would get one of the phillips screw drivers with the clamps that hold the screw until I found out what they cost. Ouch, that's not going to happen.
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01-31-2015, 07:41 PM
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Blue painters tape
I just keep a roll of blue painters tape (home depot aviation department) close to the airplane when I am working on it and it is amazing what it will hold, and it doesn't leave any residue. I use it for holding the stainless screws in the back of the avionics trays to the screwdrivers and it justs pops right off after the screws get started in the threads.
The magnetic screw holders don't work for the stainless screws (obviously) and the usual mechanical holders don't really work on the small screws.
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01-31-2015, 07:47 PM
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01-31-2015, 08:30 PM
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Yes, that is my point exactly! $42.00 + shipping seems kind of high for a screw driver.
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01-31-2015, 11:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Charles in SC
Yes, that is my point exactly! $42.00 + shipping seems kind of high for a screw driver.
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Ha! You've obviously never bought a Government issue hammer. 
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02-01-2015, 12:57 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Adelaide Australia
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Yes, that is my point exactly! $42.00 + shipping seems kind of high for a screw driver.
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Not if you are trying to get that screw in the back of your rack.
Actually, you could ask twice that price if you could invent a tool that will grab the s/s screw to take them out without dropping them. I would pay lots of money for that.
The evil genius that decided to put non magnetic screws in radio racks...............don't get me started, if you have ever dropped a screw from a rack in a 400 series Cessna,
and then have to find it, you will know what I am saying,, 43 bucks.......cheap! ( actually it will be well over a 100 bucks by the time I get it here )
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02-01-2015, 02:19 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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On some hard to access places, I used socket head cap screws, and used an Allen wrench, or those Allen insert bits with the little ratchet handle that comes in those little yellow gun tool kits.
Some locations are too demanding for a Philips head. Limited edge or overhead clearance, or out of eye ball view. Socket head screws stay on the Allen bit and don't get 'buggered up' like a Philips head.
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