Of course, this is none of my business (as a lurker on this list) but I must point out that the hand tools at Harbor Freight are mostly of quite good quality. I use these in my shop and have little complaint. Their main claim to fame is price -- quite low, generally. It is no longer a situation like in the '60's when you'd buy a set of Allen wrenches from the $1 bin at the auto parts store and the damned thing would twist into a hexagonal screw the first time you applied any torque to it. Bruce NJ On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 7:01 AM Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 7/12/2021 9:49 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Looking at replacing the Allen wrench at CDL with sets Anyone have suggestions on other manufacturers / options?
Martin Flynn
Related are Torx drivers. I don't recall what CDL has in these.
A 6-inch shaft T15 is necessary to service Apple Macintoshes of all sorts particularly the earliest models. Later Apple models use other Torx sizes. These screws find themselves in all kinds of equipment. I'll leave choice of tool brand to persons with more experience than mine.
Hi Herb,
CDL currently has Wiha Torx drivers in the following sizes:
T7s - 60mm blade, 164mm overrall
T8s - 60mm blade, 164mm overrall
T9s - 60mm blade, 171mm overrall
T10s - 80mm blade, 191mm overall
T15s - 80mm blade, 191mm overall
T20s - 100mm blade, 211mm overall
T25s - 100mm blade, 211mm overall
my set of T1-T8 drivers (wiha 26791) are in the studio
martin