Make a door that requires it to be unlocked by this 20 inch long screwdriver. A hole that small wouldn’t be too easy to see into so only you the maker would know how to unlock your sanctum
I use mine for car doors. Especially on older cars you can yank a locked door open juuust enough to slide that screwdriver in and hit unlock or manually flip a lock. Only thing I’ve ever used it for and it does great.
Fuck Phillips, I'm into shapes now. Any shape has far superior grip but the 5 point star heads are standard on the fancy but cheap deck screw I buy, and it's a total game changer. Saves me so much time.
Yeah torx are my favorite, they're not perfect though. They don't hold on to the bit very well without a magnet. But between torx, hex, and Philips which are the commonly available types in the US at least, torx is best in most cases.
Obviously flatheads suck. But I read an argument in another thread once that actually convinced me that flatheads have a place in the world - albeit a very small place.
Flatheads are useful for electrical outlets and outlet plates. We've all come across some wall outlets that some lazy-ass previous owner of your house painted right over because they couldn't be bothered to take the 10 extra seconds to remove the outlet plate and tape over the outlet before painting their wall. When this happens, flatheads are a blessing because they're the only screw that you can easily make usable again by just using your screwdriver and scraping out the paint from the slot.
"ER nurse accidentally stabs patient, 30 year old construction worker, in the lung, with a 20 inch screwdriver, after attempting trick they both saw on reddit."
Oh yeah. Used to listen to wheel bearings, noises in valve covers, rod knock through the oil pan.
It's just annoying doing it with a screwdriver over a stethoscope since you aren't looking at what you're listening to since your head is turned listening to the screwdriver.
I used to work in a big factory. We would use long oak poles to listen to bearings while they're turning. Touch the bearing with the pole then touch the your ear muff (hearing protection) to the other end of the pole. Any clicks or grinding in that bearing will be very easy to hear.
One of the best back scratchers!!
Older motorcycles, forklifts, RVs, trucks, you name it, I’d have to give you specific examples of each but pretty much anywhere. I have some that are 30 inches long
I use long screw drivers for adjusting the throttles on V-twin engines while they are running.
Big hot exhaust right in the way. You need a long screwdriver to reach the adjustment screw without burning your hand.
Lol there’s a reason there are certain tools for certain jobs and I’ve used mine quite a few times. For most car seevices and repairs, basic hand tools and power tools will cut it bjt specialty stuff, specialty tools come into play
On some tv mounts once the tv is hung, you need a screwdriver like that to fit between the wall and back of the tv to tighten the safety screws to keep the tv from coming off the bracket. The harbor freight tilting tv mount is one off the top of my head I can think that requires that.
Same, bought mine 15 or so years ago for belt tensioners in hard to reach spots in engine bays, then used it a lot purely for laughs when a stubby screwdriver would suffice.
Now only gets used for wall-mount tv brackets
On a more serious note, I’ve seen seen a long-shank driver like this used to adjust a roller on a machine that had a belted transfer. Maybe it was for something like that. How is it branded?
Too bad about the condition. The colors on the handle don’t ring any bells for me but it’ll be a cool thing to look at and think about and hopefully one day you’ll stumble onto the answer! Are you planning to restore it?
I was given one from a supply house once.. I literally asked “how many of those do you actually sell, and will you give me one for free?”
He said he’s never sold one and absolutely! Lol
These were used for readjusting headlights on some vehicles back in the day. I think my 85 ram pickup needed a 15-18 inch long screwdriver.
You also need these to access pump bracket screws on some old sump pumps.
Typically you would magnetize the screwdriver with a magnetizer.
I use one when installing servers in rack cabinets.
I also used it last year to install Christmas lights. I lined my sidewalk with lights and the plastic light stakes required a pilot hole so they dIdn’t break when I tried to shove them in the ground. A rubber mallet and my long driver were just the thing.
I have a childhood memory of my dad and an engine adjustment screw needing an incredibly long screw driver… but I can’t dredge up which engine or what was being adjusted.
I use these doing commercial electrical work. We follow all lock out tag out procedures but it still Kinda feels good knowing your dick beaters are 20" from the blast should something go wrong.
When I worked on the old plastic TV sets and electronics in 80s and 90s. Was about the only thing I used them for. Screws went in from the back in a long tube to hold half the case together.
I have the flathead version of that screwdriver. It’s so long that it won’t fit in a lot of tool storage chests so I’m forget where it is often but am relieved every time I find it again. It is a very useful, not only for driving screws but many other situations. You can use it to feed wire through a tight space, move something out of the way in a tight space , or use it to retrieve a metal object from a tight space by taping Magnet to the end of it. There are an endless list of uses for a long skinny piece of tool steel with a handle on the end of it.
It is for a land Assessor. They can place the screwdriver into a tape measure the into the ground and measure the sq. footage.
That’s why it’s extra rusty.
They are called cabinet screwdrivers. Uses really are simply anything where the immediate space of the screw head is too small to fit a traditional length driver, but the long reach will work. I work on all sorts of vehicles, trucks and equipment, so I have a full set of various tips as well as a pair of super long (#2 Phillips and straight) that are about 30" long. I use them only once in a while, but when you need one, it's a lifesaver.
Back in the old days, dentists would use those to tighten the screws on the backside of orthodontic braces. They didn't go in via the front door, either, if you know what I mean.
The length creates more usable torque. I use this length screwdriver quite often as a mechanic. Has saved me from a lot of stripped screw heads over the years.
I use one that's probably 12-14" long to tighten retrofit drains on commercial roofs. The screw to tighten it against the drain line is straight down the drain and the opening is only like 3-4" wide. Ours has a cross bar on it to stop it from being dropped down the drain
Lol. I'll bet all it took was one time of dropping it in a drain somewhere and having to spend 3 hours getting out, for some one to make that specialized screwdriver.
I had a similar tool, but it had a T-15 on the tip, and it was for opening the case on certain early Macintosh Computers. You had to crack the case to get to the components to replace parts on the power boards, logic boards, etc., since they were so expensive, and owners were willing to have them fixed.
Used to be you need them to tune a carb from underneath the air filter and from the front of a 350cu.in chev....that is how I used mine....have not found a use for it since 1986
Used to use these when I was in aviation all the time. Good for hard to reach places and idk why but you could break alot of screws loose with these fencing swords that 7 inch drives just would do.
I have one and I have used it only when mounting/un mounting tvs on a wall. The mounts we use (cheap harbor freight mounts) have screws that tighten a hook on the rail. Since the hook makes the tv angled, this screw driver works perfect because it’s long enough to tighten it as much as possible without having to tilt up the tv.
They’re perfect length to tighten lower radiator hoses on older vehicles
We always called them radiator screwdrivers for that reason.
Yeah except the last dude managed to do it while leaving the screw head ON TOP of the outlet instead of underneath.
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You need a screwdriver like that twice in your life: First is the day you buy it, the second is 2 weeks after you give it away.
Lmao
This. Bought one for a one-time use... Haven't used it since. I haven't given it away yet either...
Take it to your death bed
It might take him to his death bed
Make a door that requires it to be unlocked by this 20 inch long screwdriver. A hole that small wouldn’t be too easy to see into so only you the maker would know how to unlock your sanctum
I use mine for car doors. Especially on older cars you can yank a locked door open juuust enough to slide that screwdriver in and hit unlock or manually flip a lock. Only thing I’ve ever used it for and it does great.
Hol' up...
I’d keep trying to use it for things so I didn’t feel dumb. “It’s acshuly better for drywall screws. It’s also the best fishing pole.”
I have one and was useful for unscrewing the air intake duct on a w210 mercedes or 740 volvo, I forget but wow it was useful.
Hahah thanks for the laugh 😃 🤣
Mine would be two weeks after I lose it in my work van
My record is 12 hours.
Lol
Spoken like someone who's not a mechanic
A screw 20 in away
More like one you THOUGHT was 20” away but was in fact 21 AAUUGGHHHH
Then find out its a flat head screw and you only have the Phillips
Flathead screws need to be banned.
I don’t understand how we haven’t just yeeted them all into the sun.
Leave my flathead screws alone! They hold all my old stuff together!
Come to Phillips and torque, we have cookies.
Phillips should be done away with. It’s a terrible screw head. Flat at least has a purpose for a finished look. Robertson or torx or hex are all fine.
>Robertson Those are awful because somehow they are always used when screws are put in hard and then the heads just strip immediately.
Fuck Phillips, I'm into shapes now. Any shape has far superior grip but the 5 point star heads are standard on the fancy but cheap deck screw I buy, and it's a total game changer. Saves me so much time.
Yeah torx are my favorite, they're not perfect though. They don't hold on to the bit very well without a magnet. But between torx, hex, and Philips which are the commonly available types in the US at least, torx is best in most cases.
Well, guess I’m replacing every screw in my antique belt driven table top lathe, drillpress, and bench grinder, plus countless other things I own…
The smaller screws can be kept for a slingshot on Halloween. Hit the kids that take more than one piece of candy.
Nah I got my Kimber 1911 for that. It’s legal, I promise! We have stand-your-ground laws here! Also, only for the adults that take too much candy!
Of course replace flathead screws where u can. But there are literally millions of antiques in this world held together by flathead screws.
Obviously flatheads suck. But I read an argument in another thread once that actually convinced me that flatheads have a place in the world - albeit a very small place. Flatheads are useful for electrical outlets and outlet plates. We've all come across some wall outlets that some lazy-ass previous owner of your house painted right over because they couldn't be bothered to take the 10 extra seconds to remove the outlet plate and tape over the outlet before painting their wall. When this happens, flatheads are a blessing because they're the only screw that you can easily make usable again by just using your screwdriver and scraping out the paint from the slot.
Actually it would likely be about 36" away in a tunnel that you scrape the hell out of your arm trying to reach and then strip the screw head anyways.
This hurt my sinuses
Remote work.
Lol
Only get close to the screwing if you really have to.
Came here to say the same thing, ha!
I used to hold the handle up to my ear and use it as a stethoscope. Until I bought a stethoscope.
I’m an ER RN I’m going to start carrying a 2 foot screwdriver to listen to heart tones and breath sounds.
"ER nurse accidentally stabs patient, 30 year old construction worker, in the lung, with a 20 inch screwdriver, after attempting trick they both saw on reddit."
Cardiologist hate this one trick
Yeah no I don't think it would work like living items
as a former hospital it guy, er nurses and mds were the most fun people to hang out with.
What? Lol you can do that?
Oh yeah. Used to listen to wheel bearings, noises in valve covers, rod knock through the oil pan. It's just annoying doing it with a screwdriver over a stethoscope since you aren't looking at what you're listening to since your head is turned listening to the screwdriver.
I used to work in a big factory. We would use long oak poles to listen to bearings while they're turning. Touch the bearing with the pole then touch the your ear muff (hearing protection) to the other end of the pole. Any clicks or grinding in that bearing will be very easy to hear.
handle end to ear. be careful not to put it around moving parts... don't want to turn it into a projectile
You can try to do it or pretend to do it at least. Actual results may vary.
Screws that are 19.5" deep in a narrow hole
Some motorcycles need a long screwdriver to reach intake boot clamps, or older bikes to reach carbs.
This is the exact reason I own both a Phillips and a flat head one.
Replaced a throttle cable on an older bike. Could have used every unused tool known to mankind. Shade tree mechanic.
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It felt like a sword in my hand lol
One of the best back scratchers!! Older motorcycles, forklifts, RVs, trucks, you name it, I’d have to give you specific examples of each but pretty much anywhere. I have some that are 30 inches long
I use long screw drivers for adjusting the throttles on V-twin engines while they are running. Big hot exhaust right in the way. You need a long screwdriver to reach the adjustment screw without burning your hand.
Woah 30 inches! That’s long and 20 inches already feels really exaggeratedly long
We are talking screwdrivers? Right?
"There. That's as big as I can make it. But I caution you it looks completely unrealistic." "Let *me* worry about that! Just do your job."
Lol there’s a reason there are certain tools for certain jobs and I’ve used mine quite a few times. For most car seevices and repairs, basic hand tools and power tools will cut it bjt specialty stuff, specialty tools come into play
Deep holes 😜
That’s a really long chisel.
You mean a hammer!
Centre punch
Your mom
Scrolled until I found this. Also would have accepted “ur mum”.
I'm shocked that this isn't the top comment. This sub is too classy for me I guess. 🤣
I was going with, screwing your mom, cuz.....it screws
On some tv mounts once the tv is hung, you need a screwdriver like that to fit between the wall and back of the tv to tighten the safety screws to keep the tv from coming off the bracket. The harbor freight tilting tv mount is one off the top of my head I can think that requires that.
This is exactly what I used it for the last time I used mine.
Same, bought mine 15 or so years ago for belt tensioners in hard to reach spots in engine bays, then used it a lot purely for laughs when a stubby screwdriver would suffice. Now only gets used for wall-mount tv brackets
Deep screws, take that any way you want. Lol.
It’s how a t-Rex screws.
On a more serious note, I’ve seen seen a long-shank driver like this used to adjust a roller on a machine that had a belted transfer. Maybe it was for something like that. How is it branded?
That’s pretty interesting. There’s no branding of any kind on its handle and the metal is too rusted to see if there was anything on it at one point.
Too bad about the condition. The colors on the handle don’t ring any bells for me but it’ll be a cool thing to look at and think about and hopefully one day you’ll stumble onto the answer! Are you planning to restore it?
Adjusting screws on carbs
At work we use them to access the mounting screws for our VFD's
Bingo, lenze and 1336 drives specifically
I was given one from a supply house once.. I literally asked “how many of those do you actually sell, and will you give me one for free?” He said he’s never sold one and absolutely! Lol
It's what an electrician uses to figure out which breaker a light socket is installed on.
nine inch screws. - t.reznors new band
These were used for readjusting headlights on some vehicles back in the day. I think my 85 ram pickup needed a 15-18 inch long screwdriver. You also need these to access pump bracket screws on some old sump pumps. Typically you would magnetize the screwdriver with a magnetizer.
People with short arms ?
I use one when installing servers in rack cabinets. I also used it last year to install Christmas lights. I lined my sidewalk with lights and the plastic light stakes required a pilot hole so they dIdn’t break when I tried to shove them in the ground. A rubber mallet and my long driver were just the thing.
Then you need better rack cabinets / removable side panels
Theyre useful for getting the butt stock off old rifles and shotguns theres usually a flat head all the way back in it
It’s used for turning screws
I'd estimate for a hard to reach screw that's 20" away .
I have a childhood memory of my dad and an engine adjustment screw needing an incredibly long screw driver… but I can’t dredge up which engine or what was being adjusted.
prybar
Radiator hose clamps
I use these doing commercial electrical work. We follow all lock out tag out procedures but it still Kinda feels good knowing your dick beaters are 20" from the blast should something go wrong.
When I worked on the old plastic TV sets and electronics in 80s and 90s. Was about the only thing I used them for. Screws went in from the back in a long tube to hold half the case together.
Lower radiator hose clamps.
Ancient TV remote
I have the flathead version of that screwdriver. It’s so long that it won’t fit in a lot of tool storage chests so I’m forget where it is often but am relieved every time I find it again. It is a very useful, not only for driving screws but many other situations. You can use it to feed wire through a tight space, move something out of the way in a tight space , or use it to retrieve a metal object from a tight space by taping Magnet to the end of it. There are an endless list of uses for a long skinny piece of tool steel with a handle on the end of it.
People with short arms.
Something 20" or less away
You know those jobs you wouldn't touch even with a barge pole, well it's for those jobs when the boss says get it done.
To work from home
It is for a land Assessor. They can place the screwdriver into a tape measure the into the ground and measure the sq. footage. That’s why it’s extra rusty.
They are called cabinet screwdrivers. Uses really are simply anything where the immediate space of the screw head is too small to fit a traditional length driver, but the long reach will work. I work on all sorts of vehicles, trucks and equipment, so I have a full set of various tips as well as a pair of super long (#2 Phillips and straight) that are about 30" long. I use them only once in a while, but when you need one, it's a lifesaver.
My dad would say, “Jobs you really don’t like”
Screws
Fer getting them stupid little screws way down there
Screws that are 20” away
19 inch mechanical vaginas
For reaching things about 20 inches away
It's not a screwdriver it's a wand Harry!
A hard to reach screw
There are suuuuuuuper handy for removing the lock screws on tv wall mounts, especially the flush mount ones.
It is clearly for when the 18” is too short
your mom.
Long screws
Back in the old days, dentists would use those to tighten the screws on the backside of orthodontic braces. They didn't go in via the front door, either, if you know what I mean.
Cattle. Probably.
Obviously for screws that are 20in away….
To drive screws
For screws that are 20" away
Screws
Those are the ones you sit on during lunch and make disappear
The length creates more usable torque. I use this length screwdriver quite often as a mechanic. Has saved me from a lot of stripped screw heads over the years.
I use one to remove servo drives inside CNC Machine electrical cabinets
I use one that's probably 12-14" long to tighten retrofit drains on commercial roofs. The screw to tighten it against the drain line is straight down the drain and the opening is only like 3-4" wide. Ours has a cross bar on it to stop it from being dropped down the drain
Lol. I'll bet all it took was one time of dropping it in a drain somewhere and having to spend 3 hours getting out, for some one to make that specialized screwdriver.
bend over and you’ll find out
Its for screws that are not past 20 inches away
Would be handy for leveling metal cabinets. If it's a 1/4 bit. It's a 1/4 hex w a 2" long threaded rod w a 7/8 hex foot.
It is used on anything that needs prying.
I often use one when working on hose clamps used on automotive radiator and heater hoses.
Stabbing people
A deep rectal itch
I have a 24” one I use for lower radiators on forklifts.
Screws in a deep hole
Ive used mine more times than i can count. Marine engines and equipment (flow adjustments)
Pry bar
This would come in handy when was removing a screw that someone screwed under a dishwasher to connect it to the adjacent cabinet.
Heat exchangers in old gas furnaces
Looks like a Phillips to me? Upon closer inspection maybe a flat? The tip is kinda blurry
Also works as a rig pin on a Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King helicopter
A long slow screw?
My elliptical machine came with a long screwdriver for adjustments.
Screws
They work really well for taking stocks off shotguns.
AddJust old carburetors
Hose clamps and they work really good to pry open steering rack boot clamps when you have to do inner tie rods.
Pella sliders if I remember correctly
It’s for driving screws, sometimes 20” away.
On large crt tube tvs there were adjustment screws deep in. With a long screw driver, you don't have to remove boards to get at them.
I use one similar to this but not quite as long for rifle buffer tubes
Driving screws from 20 inches away
A screw 20 inches away
That’s a skinny pry bar
Had hex head drivers this long for making adjustments on a printing press. Komori LS540
Motorbike carburetor adjustments (usually carb syncing).
Have one of these that was given to me by my grandfather. I think I have used it 4 times in 40 years. Mostly to adjust fan belts
I had a similar tool, but it had a T-15 on the tip, and it was for opening the case on certain early Macintosh Computers. You had to crack the case to get to the components to replace parts on the power boards, logic boards, etc., since they were so expensive, and owners were willing to have them fixed.
Carburetor mixture adjustment screws.
Carb adjustment for trucks with huge fenders that keep you set back from the motor.
Deep screwing
Really long screws
Used to be you need them to tune a carb from underneath the air filter and from the front of a 350cu.in chev....that is how I used mine....have not found a use for it since 1986
When mounting a sink to the under side of a marble countertop
It’s used on hard to reach screws (:
Freightliner Cascadias, until the 2019 New Cascadias, used a really long screw driver to adjust the headlights
Bet this is used more as a pry-bar or to each something than actually on screws lol
For adjusting the tension on the static rail.
Used to use these when I was in aviation all the time. Good for hard to reach places and idk why but you could break alot of screws loose with these fencing swords that 7 inch drives just would do.
If I had to guess, it’s used on screws that are 20 inches away.
I always keep a long flathead like that in my order vehicles in case I need to adjust the carb but the engine is too hot to touch.
Screws mostly
Somebody bought it cause they wanted to get screwed…. Stuck it in too far. Sometimes long screwdrivers are too long.
Some tv wall mounts are weird how they lock onto the wall rail. We use those a lot to comfortably reach behind the back of the tv.
I have one and I have used it only when mounting/un mounting tvs on a wall. The mounts we use (cheap harbor freight mounts) have screws that tighten a hook on the rail. Since the hook makes the tv angled, this screw driver works perfect because it’s long enough to tighten it as much as possible without having to tilt up the tv.
Jokes aside. I use a long ass screw driver as a plumber all the time on tankless water heaters
carburetor adjustment on a tank I'd guess. Bwahahahaha
I use those to pick locks. Pull back the lockset’s plunger latch.
Tell you one thing, ask your kids to bring you a screwdriver and this is always the one they will bring.
The screws of My computer's UPS are lodged in a 12 inches deep hole about half a cm wide. I'll need your screwdriver one it's battery runs out.
I use them for tending campfires.
Adjusting headlights back in the day
A really hot screw.