sleeve for small flat head screwdrivers?

[Denwad]

I work with equipment where in order to remove and replace certain components I need to use very small screw drivers around blind corners, and a thought occured to me

if the shaft of the screwdriver had a small sleeve around it, you could just put the sleeve over the small screw that's holding the data connector on, and then turn the screwdriver until it indexes, and it won't ever slip off 50 thousand times causing you to have to reindex the screwdriver to the screw.

does such a tool already exist? or maybe something i could make myself

 

[whyNick?]

I've never seen a screwdriver like this but I have a Dewalt bit driver that uses a sliding sleeve to keep the bit engaged with the screw, they call it a "Drive Guide". It works pretty good.

 

[logical]

There's such a thing as a carburetor adjusting tool that has the flat blade recessed in a socket/sleeve but probably too big for what you want. Are you talking about flat blade / slotted screws? The one I used and still have around somewhere was attached to a flexible shaft screwdriver handle about a foot long.

 

[Denwad]

yeah that socket looks like it would be too large

the screws i'm working on look like they're slightly larger than 1/8th of an inch

 

[Robbie UK]

Just use a regular screwdriver with some heatshrink tube on the end.

I do this for carb screws to stop the vibration throwing me off the indexed position.

 

[Vigo]

Those 1/4" hex bit holders with the sliding sleeve that goes up to keep a wood screw from falling out/going crooked would work if not for the fact that they add 2" of depth right off the bat.

 

[stroked80z28]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00093GCUU/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Indexmill]

This is the Garage Journal. Make one...

 

[HMCFab9]

Could you put a small piece of rubber hose on the end of your screwdriver?
Like automotive vacuum line hose?

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

Silicone rubber tubing will stretch nicely for the size and still be translucent for you to see the screw inside.