Love that Quick-Wedge (Apr, 1951)
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1951
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1951
| Buy on Ebay
Pardon me, but do you have any comically large screwdrivers in stock?
Love that Quick-Wedge
- I use it instead of a conventional screwdriver!
Quick-Wedge SCREW-HOLDING SCREWDRIVER
unconditionally guaranteed
ASK FOR IT AT YOUR DEALER
KEDMAN CO. • 233 SO 5th WEST • SALT LAKE CITY 1, UTAH
Not a Quick-Wedge, but comically large and generally in stock: http://www.leevalley.com/wood/.....3411,43417
Comment by Toronto — October 30, 2009 @ 2:58 pm
Yes but does either one match the legendary Sears no-questions-asked lifetime warranty? Or has that become *just* a legend now?
Comment by nlpnt — October 30, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
No, the Craftsman unlimited lifetime warranty through Sears is alive and well http://consumerist.com/5183468/
Comment by Firebrand38 — October 30, 2009 @ 7:34 pm
I myself rely on Stahlville or Kamasa tools, they have a lifetime quarantee as well, and can withstand some incredible abuse….
Comment by Jari — October 30, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
The quick wedge holds slotted screws via a split bit that expands when you push down the collar at the top of the handle. I have some of them that I ordered by mistake at our shop. Handy for slotted screws which are less popular than the Phiilips Head type nowadays.
Comment by blueferretdog — October 31, 2009 @ 10:25 am
I was lucky enough to find one of those for sale at the tools bin at a local flea market some years back. A good way to hold screws without resorting to magnetism.
Comment by John Savard — October 31, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
I’m perpetually baffled at stuff like this, when the noble Canadian invention, the Robertson-head screw, has been clinging to its driver since 1909.
Comment by Ernst Bitterman — November 16, 2009 @ 7:09 am
Robertson drive is all I use anymore for that reason, among others. Or Spax, which allows either Robertson or Phillips drive . . . .
Comment by Don — November 16, 2009 @ 9:30 am
Ernst Bitterman: Yeah, good old Robertson snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by failing to license “his” design to Henry Ford back in the day http://www.sizes.com/tools/screw_drive.htm
Funny, because a decent patent search would have revealed that the Roberston head screw should have been called something else http://www.google.com/patents/.....8fAAAAEBAJ
Sorry Ernst, it seems it was a noble New York invention since 1875
Comment by Firebrand38 — November 16, 2009 @ 10:28 am