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Bill4A,
What do you class as a GS Screwdriver ? This;
Or this;
To my thinking its the first one, a wooden handled ratchett jobby. I was always told the second was a Cabinet makers. I'm sure you can still get either.
Smudge
What do you class as a GS Screwdriver ? This;
Or this;
To my thinking its the first one, a wooden handled ratchett jobby. I was always told the second was a Cabinet makers. I'm sure you can still get either.
Smudge
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The top one's a "ratchet", favourite tool of fairies. A GS had a yellow
plastic handle. Maybe wooden for some of the more mature PPRuNe members
plastic handle. Maybe wooden for some of the more mature PPRuNe members
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Thanks Smuj
The top one is a ratchet screwdriver, the other is a cabinet screwdriver. The GS had a full length blade and an almost indestructible wooden handle that you could knock 7 bells out of with a 4 pound hammer when it doubled as a driver for recalcitrant fuel drum caps, etc! I doubt a plastic handle would cope with the abuse the GS would take!
The top one is a ratchet screwdriver, the other is a cabinet screwdriver. The GS had a full length blade and an almost indestructible wooden handle that you could knock 7 bells out of with a 4 pound hammer when it doubled as a driver for recalcitrant fuel drum caps, etc! I doubt a plastic handle would cope with the abuse the GS would take!
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I guess it depends on your era. The yellow plastic handles were tougher than any wooden handle would be.
Even gets a mention here: http://www.e-goat.co.uk/forums/archi...p/t-17035.html
Speaking as an ex fairy, the ratchet was always the first tool out for any job, along with a torch.
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Even gets a mention here: http://www.e-goat.co.uk/forums/archi...p/t-17035.html
Speaking as an ex fairy, the ratchet was always the first tool out for any job, along with a torch.
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I've still got a pump ratchet screwdriver (I think that was the description)
I believe they were banned because they could cause some damage if they slipped out of a slotted screw head.
I believe they were banned because they could cause some damage if they slipped out of a slotted screw head.
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I think in the UK they were sold under the Stead name, see
http://www.ebay.com/itm/QUALITY-VINT...p2047675.l2557
http://www.ebay.com/itm/QUALITY-VINT...p2047675.l2557
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Yes definitely depends on your era,but I would agree that the true GS is the one with the metal shaft all the way through the handle so that one could 'persuade' certain jobs wiv a Hammer,I used both the wooden and yellow plastic variety but with a preference for the plastic handle !
The pump action screwdrivers could also put a high loading on anchor nuts as well as 'improving' your cellon high speed finish
The ratchet screwdriver was almost considered a 'watchmakers' by many riggers LOL
The pump action screwdrivers could also put a high loading on anchor nuts as well as 'improving' your cellon high speed finish
The ratchet screwdriver was almost considered a 'watchmakers' by many riggers LOL
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Do not recognise the so called tools mentioned above.
Rag used to fix any leaks and sharp pen to deal with anything else.
Did play with small London patten screwdriver. You could make them hover in mid air using an airline.
Rag used to fix any leaks and sharp pen to deal with anything else.
Did play with small London patten screwdriver. You could make them hover in mid air using an airline.
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The ratchet screwdriver was almost considered a 'watchmakers' by many riggers LOL
We fairies, with delicate soft hands, found it quite suitable
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Longer Ron has it right, the metal shaft was to the end of the wooden handle, this meant you could hit it with a hammer without damage to the handle.
Unless you were slightly wayward, in which case the wood was liable to shatter.
The modern yellow plastic handled ones are much better, but somehow not 'the real thing'!
As another former fairy, I don't remember having a ratchet handled screwdriver in my tool kit.
Unless you were slightly wayward, in which case the wood was liable to shatter.
The modern yellow plastic handled ones are much better, but somehow not 'the real thing'!
As another former fairy, I don't remember having a ratchet handled screwdriver in my tool kit.
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Saw the title of this thread but hadn't delved into it until just now but the the title brought back memories of Detail X in the JP Nose u/c jack/recuperator bay. An almost blind, touchy feely wire locking job on a complex turnbuckle assy to be done at arms length. Imagine my surprise when I thought I'd check whether anyone had mentioned it before and it was post #2
The ratchet screwdriver was almost considered a 'watchmakers' by many riggers LOL Well it would be in their big brutish hands.
We fairies, with delicate soft hands, found it quite suitable
We fairies, with delicate soft hands, found it quite suitable
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The pump-action screwdriver is a "Yankee". I still have mine (Stanley), about 40 years old, about 50cm long (compressed) and still in perfect working order. Plenty of torque available with a long screwdriver, the longer the better. Stanley lives in my "retired" toolbox, having been superceeded by a handy-dandy cordless drill.
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A pre-AOC's inspection in ASF Akrotiri revealed we had a surplus of tools in the store and the boss was told to get rid of them. The store-bashers wouldn't accept them back so we binned them, many still in their wrappers,
down a capped Roman artesian well just outside the hangar. A Canberra elevator also went down there!
Ironically we were warned not to pinch any because, had one been caught with any tools, in one's car at the main gate,
severe punishment would have ensued.
down a capped Roman artesian well just outside the hangar. A Canberra elevator also went down there!
Ironically we were warned not to pinch any because, had one been caught with any tools, in one's car at the main gate,
severe punishment would have ensued.