{"id":22,"date":"2008-07-06T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/?p=22"},"modified":"2011-02-20T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T20:20:33","slug":"screw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Screw."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are some things that people use to open paint cans  , scrape, pry and chisel. They&#8217;re called screwdrivers. Of all the types of vintage used tools one can acquire, screwdrivers are the most difficult to find in respectable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The top specimen is my favorite. It&#8217;s 18 inches long and was made a long time ago  , somewhere in Illinois by Damascus Steel Products Corp. The base of the shank just forward of the handle is square. That&#8217;s a big help when turning rusted and frozen screws, because you can lock your crescent wrench on it and turn it for extra torque.<\/p>\n<p>At some point in the screwdriver&#8217;s life, mice decided the handle was &#8216;good eatin&#8217; and proceeded to chew it up at the butt. That coupled with lots of use as a chisel made for some heavy splintering and chips. I sanded it smooth and spliced in some strips of hardwood to replace lost material (lower right image).<\/p>\n<p>The second screwdriver from the top has a much comfier handle. On the flat of the blade is an unusual stamp (lower left image).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bigscrewdrivers.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-22];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bigscrewdrivers-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bigscrewdrivers-300x148.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bigscrewdrivers.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are some things that people use to open paint cans , scrape, pry and chisel. They&#8217;re called screwdrivers. Of all the types of vintage used tools one can acquire, screwdrivers are the most difficult to find in respectable condition. The top specimen is my favorite. It&#8217;s 18 inches long and was made a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,81],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-screwdrivers","category-tools","tag-screwdrivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialglenn.com\/tools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}