Anyone uses a Yankee screwdriver in this trade

[l4urence]

I bought one recently at a boot fair, remembering how wonderful they were in years past! Never used it and realised that when they were wonderful there wasn't a cordless anything to compare it to. Great kit but probably best left to the past with meggers that had winding handles.

 

[Dcf]

i think mine is in the bottom of toolbox in the laboratory for the last 20 years.
it was handy for site work and repetitive fixings with old slotted screws tho.
while we are all retro, anyone remember the rawlplug tool??
for the yoot of the day it was a bit of metal you belted with a hammer and turned with each belt to make holes for rawlplugs! it was quite quick in brick and block if my memory is correct.usually for firms that were too tight to buy a hammer drill for each man.probably the reason i have forearms like popeye now.and a mangled hand.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I got one, but the hole to release the Morse taper was in the wrong place, so I could never change the bit.

 

[funtime frankie]

there bloody dangerous, met a guy who had lost an eye due to. not quite sure how he did it though, he went all funny when i asked him about it.

 

[telectrix]

i remember being given a 1/2" star chisel, by a tight fisted boss. to go through a brick wall for a cable. laugh was on him when a whole brick fell out in the customer's sitting room along with a square yard of plaster and a load of expensive wallpaper, fell on the piano. for what the boss had to pay out in damages, he could have equipped all 6 of us with top of the range hammer drills.

 

[Geordie Spark]

i remember being given a 1/2" star chisel, by a tight fisted boss. to go through a brick wall for a cable. laugh was on him when a whole brick fell out in the customer's sitting room along with a square yard of plaster and a load of expensive wallpaper, fell on the piano. for what the boss had to pay out in damages, he could have equipped all 6 of us with top of the range hammer drills.

Thanks for that Tel ..... it brought back memories of when I was a kid & the time my Dad was using a Rawlplug tool to fix a cupboard to the kitchen wall.

There he was bashing seven bell out of it, while my Mum was sitting on the setee in the lounge which was on the opposite side of the wall. Just like in your story, there was a loose brick & Dad found it resulting in Mum being showered in plaster.

When she asked him what he was going to do about the hole in the wall, he very calmly & without a word took the calendar from the wall at the opposite side of the room, & stuck it over the hole.

That calendar stayed there for the next three years !!!!

 

[1shortcircuit]

I think the main question here is "Why"?

What use do you see that it still has in this day and age?

Bearing in mind we all work on electrics I cannot see that you would even dream of putting it near a terminal so I am just guessing that you may send the apprentice off with it when it comes to refitting and securing lifted floorboards???

My Dad used to love his complete collection, they found their way into mine and I must be honest I've probably used them a handful of times. Slot heads and these things are just and accident waiting to happen. They've kinda just disappeared now though... I think they had all been thrown around and cursed at lol

 

[roukel01]

I bought one recently at a boot fair, remembering how wonderful they were in years past! Never used it and realised that when they were wonderful there wasn't a cordless anything to compare it to. Great kit but probably best left to the past with meggers that had winding handles.

Ha, A sparky I know just bought one of those meggers on Ebay, "You know when you have a fault with one of these" he said...!!!!!!

 

[KFH]

I have had a Yankee driver for many years, could never get on with it so I have not used it for many years. I am sure it took a few chunks out of my fingers when it slipped on slotted screws. My Makita impact driver is lots better and quicker, I can break plastic boxes at least ten times quicker than with a Yankee.

 

[roukel01]

Strange this has come up. Just been emptying the van ready for the new one and came accross a Yankee Screwdriver, it was amongst my stilsons and immersion heater spanners. No idea what its doing there, I'll put it in the garage along with the Brace Drill.