Bolster
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I have a Snap-on Ratcheting T-handle Screwdriver, SSDMRT1 (red) that I really like (short shaft); no other tool allows me to get a phillips head screw so tight, so quickly.
The other day I needed a longer shaft, so I gave the short shaft on the T-handle a good tug and it came out. I had planned to snap in a longer shaft I own (which fits my SGDMRC1A, a ratcheting soft grip stubby handle). But there's no ball detent on the end of the short shaft! And my ball-detent long shaft does not fit.
Now I can't get the short shaft back in place!
I can insert the short shaft a ways into the T-handle, but not far enough, not so the square male/female lugs meet. So the handle doesn't rotate the shaft any longer.
(Oddly enough, if I insert the T-handle's shaft into the stubby handle, it fits and functions except it falls out due to no ball detent.)
What did I do? How to fix?
The other day I needed a longer shaft, so I gave the short shaft on the T-handle a good tug and it came out. I had planned to snap in a longer shaft I own (which fits my SGDMRC1A, a ratcheting soft grip stubby handle). But there's no ball detent on the end of the short shaft! And my ball-detent long shaft does not fit.
Now I can't get the short shaft back in place!
I can insert the short shaft a ways into the T-handle, but not far enough, not so the square male/female lugs meet. So the handle doesn't rotate the shaft any longer.
(Oddly enough, if I insert the T-handle's shaft into the stubby handle, it fits and functions except it falls out due to no ball detent.)
What did I do? How to fix?
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