Old wood handle broken screwdrivers wtd with them?

[Graysgarage]

Have had these bunch of broken wooden handles screwdrivers for a while now unsure what to really do with them.. try to fix some, take them apart and scrap them, give them away for someone to make something out of them… I dislike throwing things away like to recycle/upcycle them. Let me know your thoughts.

 

[AffableCurmudgeon]

Metal can be recycled. Put it in your recycle bin.

 

[PCustoms]

Metal can be recycled. Put it in your recycle bin.

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Or yard art, disposable tools etc

If they're sentimental or special in some way you could always rehandle

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

I'd definitely be restoring the best of them. Sanding, painting and polishing the metal til they look like new.....well kinda.

 

[Graysgarage]

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Or yard art, disposable tools etc

If they're sentimental or special in some way you could always rehandle

Some handles are completely gone other the tips are just screwed… I don’t care for hard art but

I'd definitely be restoring the best of them. Sanding, painting and polishing the metal til they look like new.....well kinda.

yea some handles are toast and some of the tips are broken as well…. Didn’t want to throw them away… just threw it out there to see if it’s worth even trying to fix or create something else out of them.

 

[whateg01]

Send them to me and I'll make new wooden handles for them!

 

[nadogail]

I use Closet Poles for File Handles.

 

[Stuart in MN]

A lot of them probably aren't worth the effort but the better quality ones can be restored. There are a jillion screwdriver restoration videos on YouTube to use for instruction.

 

[Graysgarage]

always a few good finds in there… these two I found while going through a huge 35 gallon tub of screwdrivers.

 

[WillyBoy]

I'd chuck a nice piece of hardwood in the lathe and start turning new handles. Make them fancy or plain.
I touch up the tips carefully on a bench grinder as they get worn.
Additionally, extra screwdrivers can be made into paint can openers, small chisels, scratch awls....
Some applications may need heat treating of some kind. What you have is metal on a stick, make it into whatever you want.

 

[Graysgarage]

I'd chuck a nice piece of hardwood in the lathe and start turning new handles. Make them fancy or plain.
I touch up the tips carefully on a bench grinder as they get worn.
Additionally, extra screwdrivers can be made into paint can openers, small chisels, scratch awls....
Some applications may need heat treating of some kind. What you have is metal on a stick, make it into whatever you want.

What I was thinking probably a bbq poker

 

[RonnieC]

I use Closet Poles for File Handles.

Don’t your clothes fall down?

 

[Beerhippie]

They make good shivs.

 

[3baygarage]

Make a few bundles to sell cheap at yard sale or flea. Then someone else can mess with them. Just a suggestion. Unless you enjoy making things usable and have that kind of time. Some things I have, it’ll be forever before I’ll get to it.

 

[milky2k]

It's a good excuse reason to get a lathe and practice turning some handles or a grinder and redo the tips. Or both.

 

[PMD1966]

always a few good finds in there… these two I found while going through a huge 35 gallon tub of screwdrivers.

I have a few of that style. Found them in a scrap tub at work.

 

[LOW1]

Will I be voted off the GJ island if I were to suggest throwing them away?

 

[slowtwitch73]

Put in flat rate box and sell.

I like the ferrules for file handles.

 

[dnschmidt]

There are two types of people in the world. Those that like old stuff and those that like new stuff. I am in the latter camp. To me these are scrap metal.

 

[southalabama]

Scoutcrafter will have the answer.

 

[uart]

That's something I enjoy doing when I'm bored, making new handles for broken stuff.

 

[Nick Rivers]

357magdad on YouTube would likely buy the whole lot from you. He has a thing for wood handled screwdrivers. Similar to Scoutcrafter...

Do not throw them away or recycle them. There are buyers looking for these.

 

[Iron Horse]

There are some **** vintage wood tool dudes that would buy them just for the handles if the handles were name brand and decent. I see a few old stanley screw drivers in there. They qualify.

 

[humber2]

Keep the biggest to open tins of paint and stir the contents.

YMMV

 

[oldmachinenut]

You could sell them to the guy looking for replacement lawn dart tips.

 

[sieggy]

I work in a machine shop, we probably have 100 lathe made handles for broken screwdrivers that have been ground down to be flathead screwdrivers

 

[chevy.stroker]

always a few good finds in there… these two I found while going through a huge 35 gallon tub of screwdrivers.

I can always find those by searching tank screwdrivers. I don't know if they were actually issued in tanks during WW2, but that was what I wad told. Those German ones you have are awesome.

I have used Chinese knockoffs for 40 years and have never used hammered on a screwdriver.

https://www.highlandwoodworking.com/heavydutyscrewdriverssetof4.aspx

 

[bwringer]

Will I be voted off the GJ island if I were to suggest throwing them away?

We'll start our own island, then, free of ancient useless ****.

Seriously, folks... screwdrivers are consumables, not heirlooms, and flat blades are 90% useless anyway.

If you can't stand to bin them, chuck them into a flat rate box and offer to send them to clutter someone else's garage and baffle their heirs for the cost of shipping.

 

[RonnieC]

Just took a woodturning class. We ground the blades of old screwdrivers to make small scrapers. They worked great!

 

[Jon h]

The ones with handles can be bent into a J and welded onto some flat bar and use as a coat rack in the shop. Hang the coats on the handle end.
Jon h.

 

[ecotec]

I love vintage wood handled screwdrivers, but I don’t want to spend the time to repair damaged ones.

I would throw them away or recycle the steel.

 

[seber]

I use them for various picks and scrapers. They bend well with just the heat from a propane torch.

 

[username2]

Have had these bunch of broken wooden handles screwdrivers for a while now unsure what to really do with them.

You could donate them to the ReStore, where they'll put them into one of the half dozen bins of similar broken tools. I figure that somewhere near the bottom there's something worth buying, but there never is.

 

[john.k]

I save them for good steel rod too............especially useful for gun repair work.

 

[pfaustus]

I use them to make awls, picks, hooks and other pokey things.

 

[Beerhippie]

Shivs... just give 'em a nice triangular grind.

 

[GX460DIYguy]

I’d take the ones with decent handles and heat the shafts to bend them how you want and grind the tips down to make hose picks. Thats what I’m going to do with old beat up screwdrivers I find at some point.

 

[bonneyman]

They could be made into awls, tack pullers, bearing cap removers, pry tools.

Definitely don't throw them away or toss them into the recycle. Screwdriver shanks are good steel - don't want to waste that. Send whatever you can't use to me - I'll do something with 'em and give 'em happy home.

 

[Lumpy102]

Sometimes its worth the effort to just make a new handle