Holes in Bondhus Allen Drivers?

[Bessy]

I was doing some light cleanup in the garage, when I noticed some residue of some form on the end of my Bondhus ProHold Protanium ball end hex drivers... I started to pick at it with a pair of tweezers, thinking it was packaging residue, only to find that seemingly the entire set of drivers appear to have a very tiny (approx 1mm +/- .2mm) holes through the end of the ball end? These appear to be round and part of the manufacturing process, but I'm hugely curious as to why?

 

[FigN⋅m]

I was doing some light cleanup in the garage, when I noticed some residue of some form on the end of my Bondhus ProHold Protanium ball end hex drivers... I started to pick at it with a pair of tweezers, thinking it was packaging residue, only to find that seemingly the entire set of drivers appear to have a very tiny (approx 1mm +/- .2mm) holes through the end of the ball end? These appear to be round and part of the manufacturing process, but I'm hugely curious as to why?

Isn't that where the ProHold non-magnetic button is housed?

 

[SwissMetric]

My (un)educated guess would be that you're right.

There are also versions with some C-formed spring clip to retain Allen (INBUS) screws. A ball slightly weakens an Allen tool but with some care it isn't that fragile. I've seen also versions with a small spring-loaded steel ball in the straight part of the Allen key, possibly Wera but I'd have to verify it.

 

[Bessy]

Turns out, you might be right

Isn't that where the ProHold non-magnetic button is housed?

It appears that it's just some injected plastic and that I've gone and F'd that feature up in the pursuit of curiousity.

I also poke at bruises more than once to see if they hurt, so this is on brand for me.

 

[KnurledNut]

You done went and dug the ProHold out of them.

 

[JradM]

This... Is a funny story. Thanks for sharing OP.

I wonder if you can fix that somehow? It would be pretty hard to get some plastic back into the hole. Maybe a dab of thin epoxy? Some of them are a little rubbery when cured, I think the polyurethane ones especially. You could even add dye to replicate the color.

 

[scooby074]

That was the hold function. Not no more it aint.

 

[dnschmidt]

This is what happens when you've got a tool with a special feature that you don't know about.

 

[Bessy]

This... Is a funny story. Thanks for sharing OP.

I wonder if you can fix that somehow? It would be pretty hard to get some plastic back into the hole. Maybe a dab of thin epoxy? Some of them are a little rubbery when cured, I think the polyurethane ones especially. You could even add dye to replicate the color.

See that's the funny part, they didn't appear to have any colour at all. That's why I thought it was residue, glue or something.

 

[PCustoms]

@Bessy sens bondhus a polite email, link them to this thread.

Let's see how comical their response is!