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I read all the rules but, my opening post in general chat wasn’t approved

let’s see if it works this time

@warpcoil nice looking tools. They kind of look to be of a reasonable quality though. I like the last two pairs of long nose pliers (the ones with the light blue colored handles that have the longest “nose”) and are on the right-hand side. I’m long due to change my old tried and thrust ones by “ENGINEER” Company

@ovi4 Those two are serrated jaw and the one before them is a smooth jaw. 

Weller owns Xcelite now and they did a great job upgrading the box joints and handle cushions

The XST1020 Phillips is my go to working on projectors. It’s isometric which is a must for electronics and I need a long reach down into the chassis.

All great stuff. The long Philips is brilliant on some vintage BOOM boxes as well as some king-size vintage high-end Radio/cassette/ portable stereos. I still vividly remember an unexpected happening: 20-something years back my distant cousin contacted me to ask if I could have a look at fixing a somewhat medium-sized color TV (with a CRT Tube) made by a European company called “Loeve” and when I saw it I noticed that it had a very peculiar extra long CRT that was obviously behind a very thick and “kind of heavy looking” plastic mold rear cover. Well, after trying an entire arsenal of what I considered (at the time) to be the longest screwdrivers I could get my hands on, I quickly realized that I wasn’t going anywhere have actually run out of options. I even started to phone around asking various other friends to borrow extra-long screwdrivers but with no success. So, what I ended up doing was using a stainless still solid Barr/shaft that was a leftover from an old barbeque grill and my father decided to keep it. So using an angle grinder I’ve quickly transformed it into a custom-purpose Philips. 😇 And magically managed to successfully open that telly with. Now, measuring how much of that huge screwdriver was needed I concluded that If I was to buy a factory-made Philips it was going to be at least 470mm in length, I thought to myself What on earth is going on here? 🤣 So cutting the long story short, after solving the TV problem I decided to donate the tool to my “poor old cousin” for safekeeping as part of the telly …just in case! 😊 But….as the years went by, luckily the telly never needed another repair and my cousin donated the telly to someone else including the “now” fantastically useful screwdriver that I made for it. Huh… 😎 What a story…

@ovi4 Necessity is the mother of invention. That is a great story.

Your right, the boomboxes are the reason I started using that screwdriver.

Since the boomboxes were made in Japan, the ISO metric precisely fit the screws which was important for taking screws out of places you couldn’t even see.

A couple of swipes on a speaker magnet and you’re good to go.

The screws have a small dot on them so I would carefully sort and organize my hardware

Replacing CRT’s in American TV’s required a very long reach 1/4” nut driver with the magnetic insert.

That was another Xcelite must have along with the medium and standard versions. It wouldn’t fit in any tool box so, I had one in the shop & one in the van

The pocket clip green & red screwdrivers and plastic alignment tools were in my pocket protector at all times…classic nerd

@warpcoil The screws that have “a small dot” on them signify that they are “Japanese Industrial Standard” (JIS) screws. I butchered many of these in old cassette decks and I cursed them, thinking that they were just Philips screws that were made from poor quality metal. Later, I accidentally discovered the JIS phenomenon and was lucky enough to get a set of small JIS screwdrivers. These seem to be impossible to get today. Maybe they are still available in Japan.

@tone-c wow….I really did not know that. Hmm… I did noticed those dots on them at some point but just ignored them. Luckily using Philips and/or Pozi didn’t strip any (as of yet !) 😉 . Mind you….is always a good idea to use the right tools for the right job I guess. 😏

@tone-c Your right, the dot is JIS, I found an article about it. Apparently the specifications of JIS & ISO are so close the ISO spec fits. 
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/phillips-vs-jis-called-plus-in-japanese-vs-din-5260-ph-iso-8763-1-screwdrivers.395037/
The Xcelite XST TruTip served as my go to. 

I have a major angled flush cutter fetish.  Erem 503ETF are probably my favorite.