enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Screwdriver - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwdriver

   Screwdrivers come in a large range of sizes to accommodate various screws—from tiny jeweller's screwdrivers up. A screwdriver that is not the right size and type for the screw may damage the screw in the process of tightening it. Some screwdriver tips are magnetic, so that the screw (unless non-magnetic) remains attached to the screwdriver.

3. List of screw drives - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives

   List of screw drives. At a minimum, a screw drive is a set of shaped cavities and protrusions on the screw head that allows torque to be applied to it. [1][2] Usually, it also involves a mating tool, such as a screwdriver, that is used to turn it. Some of the less-common drives are classified as being "tamper-resistant".

4. Torx - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx

   Torx (pronounced / tɔːrks /) is a trademark for a type of screw drive characterized by a 6-point star-shaped pattern, developed in 1967 [1] by Camcar Textron. [a] A popular generic name for the drive is star, as in star screwdriver or star bits. The official generic name, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization as ...

5. Yankee screwdriver - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_screwdriver

   Yankee screwdriver. Stanley 130B, 135B and Handyman 233H. The trade name "Yankee" screwdriver was first marketed by North Brothers Manufacturing Company in ≈16 April 1895, with the No. ≠130 spiral ratchet screwdriver. Yankee soon became and still is a well-known name in automatic spiral ratchet screwdrivers, with several other models, and ...

6. Robertson screw - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_screw

   Robertson screw. A Robertson screw, also known as a square screw[1] or Scrulox, [2] is a type of screw with a square -shaped socket in the screw head and a corresponding square protrusion on the tool. Both the tool and socket have a slight taper. The contemporary square drive screw has all but replaced the Robertson screw proper and is commonly ...

7. Torque screwdriver - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_screwdriver

   Torque screwdriver. A torque screwdriver is a screwdriver with components that ensure tightening to a specified torque, ensuring tightening which is sufficient, but not excessive. An insufficiently tightened screw connection may loosen in operation, and excessive tightening can damage parts; for example, if the nuts holding the wheel of a car ...