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wiha offers 50-piece 'master sets' of their precision screwdrivers in various flavors:
Master Technicians Bench Top 50 Piece Precision Screwdriver Set (92190)
Master Technicians Bench Top 50 Piece Precision Screwdriver Set With Pentalobe (92189)
ESD Safe Master Technicians 50 Piece Set (92092)
and a picofinish one:
50 Piece ESD Safe PicoFinish® Precision Screwdriver Master Set (92093)
overall, they're great drivers. the tips are among the best.
i have some minor complaints however.
first of all, the printing on the handles is kind of inconsistent.
some yellow, some gray, some white ink.
some printed straight, some printed crooked.
some printed fine, some bold, some blurry.
also, some of the spinning end caps spin freely while others have appreciable friction.
the visual in my head is guys picking from huge bins of combined manufacturing runs and sealing them in bags as the 50pc master set.
also, i am not really satisfied with the bench stand.
it's arranged as a grid of 10x5 holes, and there's no way to organize the drivers that makes sense to me. since it has rows of 10, you can't get everything of one drive type in one row, so you have spillover. there are also no extra holes.
to make matters worse, the size and drive type are not printed on the end caps (except for picofinish!), so it's not easy to tell which driver is which in that stand. this is especially true if you want to organize by drive type. they're all different lengths, so you'll have taller drivers obscuring the view of shorter drivers. if you don't care about organizing it that way, and you just put all the tallest drivers in the back, it's a little easier to see what's what, but i just don't feel that this stand is a good organizational system.
i think that they should have made the stand a bit bigger with more holes and longer rows so that you can organize in a sane way. this would also give you some room for expansion. in the ESD set for example, i think there's 12 torx drivers and 15 hex drivers. i think it would have been much better to have the holes in a 15x4 or better yet 15x5 grid. this would permit you to organize the rows like this for example:
and then you could put odds and ends like the chip lifter wherever it makes sense to you, and you'd still have a few extra slots.
instead of the stand, i actually have my set in two tool rolls:
they're called Yasutomo Niji Roll Multi-purpose Pouch (about 6 bucks each). i think they're of reasonable quality.
this allowed me to lay them out in a way that makes sense to me, and they're also portable.
if you look carefully, i have two empty slots between each drive system. this gives a rudimentary form of tool control (visual check that no tools are missing), and it also breaks up the tool density in the pouch which allows it to roll up better.
to be honest, i mostly use the roll on top with the phillips, slotted, and torx. to this roll, i have also added some extra tools including a pentalobe size 4, some spudgers, scrapers, and a scalpel. the other roll with the hex and nut drivers doesn't get used nearly as much.
anyone else have a precision driver organizational system they're happy with?
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here's a link to an imgur album of the pics in this post:
http://imgur.com/a/QNx7zbK
Master Technicians Bench Top 50 Piece Precision Screwdriver Set (92190)
Master Technicians Bench Top 50 Piece Precision Screwdriver Set With Pentalobe (92189)
ESD Safe Master Technicians 50 Piece Set (92092)
and a picofinish one:
50 Piece ESD Safe PicoFinish® Precision Screwdriver Master Set (92093)
overall, they're great drivers. the tips are among the best.
i have some minor complaints however.
first of all, the printing on the handles is kind of inconsistent.
some yellow, some gray, some white ink.
some printed straight, some printed crooked.
some printed fine, some bold, some blurry.
also, some of the spinning end caps spin freely while others have appreciable friction.
the visual in my head is guys picking from huge bins of combined manufacturing runs and sealing them in bags as the 50pc master set.
also, i am not really satisfied with the bench stand.
it's arranged as a grid of 10x5 holes, and there's no way to organize the drivers that makes sense to me. since it has rows of 10, you can't get everything of one drive type in one row, so you have spillover. there are also no extra holes.
to make matters worse, the size and drive type are not printed on the end caps (except for picofinish!), so it's not easy to tell which driver is which in that stand. this is especially true if you want to organize by drive type. they're all different lengths, so you'll have taller drivers obscuring the view of shorter drivers. if you don't care about organizing it that way, and you just put all the tallest drivers in the back, it's a little easier to see what's what, but i just don't feel that this stand is a good organizational system.
i think that they should have made the stand a bit bigger with more holes and longer rows so that you can organize in a sane way. this would also give you some room for expansion. in the ESD set for example, i think there's 12 torx drivers and 15 hex drivers. i think it would have been much better to have the holes in a 15x4 or better yet 15x5 grid. this would permit you to organize the rows like this for example:
- phillips + slotted
- torx
- hex
- nut drivers
and then you could put odds and ends like the chip lifter wherever it makes sense to you, and you'd still have a few extra slots.
instead of the stand, i actually have my set in two tool rolls:
they're called Yasutomo Niji Roll Multi-purpose Pouch (about 6 bucks each). i think they're of reasonable quality.
this allowed me to lay them out in a way that makes sense to me, and they're also portable.
if you look carefully, i have two empty slots between each drive system. this gives a rudimentary form of tool control (visual check that no tools are missing), and it also breaks up the tool density in the pouch which allows it to roll up better.
to be honest, i mostly use the roll on top with the phillips, slotted, and torx. to this roll, i have also added some extra tools including a pentalobe size 4, some spudgers, scrapers, and a scalpel. the other roll with the hex and nut drivers doesn't get used nearly as much.
anyone else have a precision driver organizational system they're happy with?
----------
here's a link to an imgur album of the pics in this post:
http://imgur.com/a/QNx7zbK
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