Finally found a screw driver for my TT
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Finally found a screw driver for my TT
I've looked for quite a while for a correct screw driver for my TT. I found one today at a steam and gas engine show for $8.00.
Is there any record of years when this was provided in the tool kit?
Is there any record of years when this was provided in the tool kit?
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
I have no idea on the years, but you sure got a good find! In that good shape it's worth an easy $75+!!
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
They turn up in the damndest places. The 2 I came across were at the Columbus Flea Market here in N.J. Paid under $5 for each. Neither seller had any idea.
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
The tool section in the back of Bruce's book implies that the screwdriver went away around 1920.
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
Wow! That one is in great shape! It must have stuck away in someone’s tool box or bucket and forgot about. Doesn’t look to mangled and beat on. The one we had growing up working on old farm equipment was really beaten up using it as a chisel, punch and etc.
I didn’t know what it was as a kid but it worked OK until the handle broke off of it.
I didn’t know what it was as a kid but it worked OK until the handle broke off of it.
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
I copied this to my files a while ago from this forum
1922 Coupe & 1927 Touring
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
If they had continued through the years of high production there would be a lot more of them around today.
The inevitable often happens.
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
I can't till from your picture, but some of those old wood handled screwdrivers had the steel shaft all the way through the handle. If that one does, and you decide to ground the spark plugs, be very careful how you hold it.
Norm
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
After looking at pictures of other original screw drivers, I believe that the flutes in the handle were fairly shallow when new. The drawing above makes them look very deep and defined but I don't believe that they were so pronounced.
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
If it’s like my 6 buck Hershey find, the shaft goes all the way to the end of the handle.
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
Looks like a standard Ford issue screwdriver to me. I believe they quit putting them in the tool roll in 1921?
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
If I look at it from a historical perspective of practices of the time...
The probable way to draught would have been to take a suppliers sample, and have a junior draftsman do the detail letdown, strictly to memorialize what the part is and should look like. It' not like Ford took to designing the actual tools and finding a maker this early in the game.
That all said, my 2 cents says the 'sample' supplied to the draftsman at the time would have had the deep fluting and whether the production ones or not came in with steam pressed flutes vs. milled flutes is still anyones question and will probably be lost to history...
The probable way to draught would have been to take a suppliers sample, and have a junior draftsman do the detail letdown, strictly to memorialize what the part is and should look like. It' not like Ford took to designing the actual tools and finding a maker this early in the game.
That all said, my 2 cents says the 'sample' supplied to the draftsman at the time would have had the deep fluting and whether the production ones or not came in with steam pressed flutes vs. milled flutes is still anyones question and will probably be lost to history...
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
Larry-
The drawing indicates on 10-11-20 is was Obsolete. The screwdriver does not appear in the 1921 parts book. I would concur it was no longed supplied in the tool roll in 1921.
: ^ )
Keith
The drawing indicates on 10-11-20 is was Obsolete. The screwdriver does not appear in the 1921 parts book. I would concur it was no longed supplied in the tool roll in 1921.
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Keith
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
Happened more than once with same screwdriver before I caught on. Luckly I was running on magneto at idle, so it was more a shock (hehe as in surprise) than actual WOW that smarted.Norman Kling wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 11:19 amI can't till from your picture, but some of those old wood handled screwdrivers had the steel shaft all the way through the handle. If that one does, and you decide to ground the spark plugs, be very careful how you hold it.
Norm
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Re: Finally found a screw driver for my TT
I've had this one for a while. Very similar in design; however, different.