Sloping Off - March 2004

Screwdriver Set
by Andrew Tubb

This very useful set from Maplins was one penny short of £5.00. They have nice handles, long shafts and sizes from Pico to standard. Servo arm and mounting screws and even GWS gearbox mounting screws can be reached with these. If magnetised, they would be excellent at retrieving screws from those deep and tiny recesses in fuselages to which they seem so attracted.

The set contains three flat blade screwdrivers with blade sizes of 2.5, 3.0 and 4.0 mm and three crosspoint screwdrivers, 2.0mm, 3.0mm and 3.8mm.

(These screwdrivers can be found at http://www.maplin.co.uk. ref no. JM30H. Whilst on the subject of tools, Steve Morris showed me a very nice Dremel - style toolkit which he had bought from Makro for less than £20. It looked to be very good value, but I have no picture or further details to hand. - Ed).

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