Phillips capability, I need something for my Soldier

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manowar669

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I normally EDC an Alox Soldier and a Rambler. Recently, I bent the can opener on my trusty Soldier trying to loosen a phillips screw. I rarely see flathead screws anymore, so a dedicated phillips driver is needed. The Rambler phillips bit would have been too small (great for most office/home electronic tasks). Is there a small phillips tool that could go on a keychain or something. I could get a tinker, but I would hate to bump the soldier for the tinker.
 
Yes there is.

Go to Sear's and get the .99 cent keychain screw driver. It's got 4 flat bits around the edge, and the smallest bit does a great job on number 2 phillips and larger. Since it's one piece of tool steel, you'll never bend it, even using it as a mini pry tool.

It also opens beer bottles as well as a Bic lighter.:thumbup:

Carl.
 
Cool. I've heard you mention this before in your posts, but I assumed it was the 4-way screwdriver discs I've seen that I could bend with my teeth. Tool steel eh? That might work. I should mention that the can opener on the Soldier was bent by using the tool at 90 degrees to the handle, so it had a decent amount of torque. Do you think you could get a decent torque on the Sears driver thingie? I was far away from a dedicated tool, and I thought it would save time. Got 23 of the 24 screws, except that one tough screw, with the Soldier before a "go-fer" showed up with a Phillips driver. Dis-assembling a gas patio fireplace that my crazy wife bought on-site, and then realized it wouldn't fit in the Jeep as it sat.:o Almost had that one.

SAKs are great though. Tonight it (Soldier) saved a lot of time by helping me re-grip a mountainbike. Using the large flat driver as a prybar, I could get the bar ends out, and then, I was trying to re-bead a rear bike tire, and I used the same flat driver to pop the bead in place, since the tire levers are fairly thick, and although they'll work, the Soldier's flathead driver is thinner, and free of sharp (tube cutting) edges.
 
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Go Vic Explorer or Spartan light. Yeah, I know not Alox, but I love the inline phillips on my Explorer. My first SAK was a Swiss Champ because I was looking for an inline phillips screwdriver.
 
manowar669 said:
Cool. I've heard you mention this before in your posts, but I assumed it was the 4-way screwdriver discs I've seen that I could bend with my teeth.
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Yes, this is the disc shaped keychain job. If you can bend it with your teeth, I'd pay 500 dollars to see that.
 
I agree with jackknife, if you are going to need a tool on high torque application a dedicated tool would be better.

SAKs are great and can do so much but they are a softer metal (like compared to tool steel) made more for general use, not hard applications, many times they can do it but I think you'd be pushing it, especially if your not careful or have gorilla-fingers lol
 
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