He said "turning" screws, not tightening them. I might possibly believe that the vibrations might loosen screws...
-- I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one. -- James Gordon Bennett
That's why I specified tightening. He claimed that it was a 'sonic screwdriver', whereas it's just an oscillator driving a resonant piezo. Probably you want a screwdriver to turn both ways....
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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Ah, he didn't specify that this was a *bidirectional* sonic screwdriver... big difference there, you know? With a bidirectional sonic screwdriver, sure you'd get tightening as well as loosening.
But yeah, I wouldn't buy that it could tighten screws, even if it was bidirectional.
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I have several. But yours isn't one.
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Phil Hobbs
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Everybody knows that vibration can loosen screws--that's what lock washers and torque wrenches are there to prevent.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 845-480-2058 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
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Must not have had the bidirectional model... just my guess, I've never even seen a Dr. Who episode.
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Anyone who needs the proper hand tools. Some of mine are 36", and I have a custom flexible stainless steel 1/8" blade that is 42 inches to reach into equipment to adjust hidden controls. I also have a lot of
1/4" hex extensions and can make any length I need. Have you ever used a 24 foot long drill bit to run wire? I have.-- You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
Like the empty policies of the current administration.
-- You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
Just more 'grade F' science fiction. :(
-- You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
I've got a 6 footer, absolutely necessary to get thru fire-breaks. But I've never seen a 24 footer ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
But that reminds me, I've used 20' sections of PVC pipe to thread wire (and coax and CAT-5) thru my old flat-roofed house... pre-thread the pipe sections with the wire, then shove the PVC from a roof side vent under the insulation to a ceiling cut-out... great fun :-( ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
A six foot 'Diversibit' and three 6' extensions. We used them when I was teaching people to install alarm systems in the late '70s. They were used to get from the basement to the attic in two story houses, or to drill a straight row of holes in studs to run under a row of windows.
-- You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
Not as much as running wire in a department store, over a drop tile celing that's 30 feet off the floor. We had to use rolling scaffolding, and remove some tiles, then the cable was tied to a full roll of Scotch
66 tape, and thrown from hole to hole.-- You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
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