It's the smallest "professional" sized Yankee screwdriver, the smaller ones generally being sold as "handyman" versions and marketed more to homeowners and casual users. It's in very nice shape, with the original box and bit envelope, though no bits. --I make a habit of picking up Yankee bits when I find them (and the hex-bit adapters), so this is no hardship. This one does not have a return spring; it is intended for work where control matters more than speed. A splendid gift indeed, and one that I'll use.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
WONDERFUL YANKEE
Sometimes, if you're looking in the right place, there are wondrous things to be found; some are very large, like the 1920s-designed city park in a quarry in Huntington, Indiana. Others are much smaller. My eagle-eyed friend Og found this and thought of me:
It's the smallest "professional" sized Yankee screwdriver, the smaller ones generally being sold as "handyman" versions and marketed more to homeowners and casual users. It's in very nice shape, with the original box and bit envelope, though no bits. --I make a habit of picking up Yankee bits when I find them (and the hex-bit adapters), so this is no hardship. This one does not have a return spring; it is intended for work where control matters more than speed. A splendid gift indeed, and one that I'll use.
It's the smallest "professional" sized Yankee screwdriver, the smaller ones generally being sold as "handyman" versions and marketed more to homeowners and casual users. It's in very nice shape, with the original box and bit envelope, though no bits. --I make a habit of picking up Yankee bits when I find them (and the hex-bit adapters), so this is no hardship. This one does not have a return spring; it is intended for work where control matters more than speed. A splendid gift indeed, and one that I'll use.
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Any comments on the one Dan Aykroyd used on the elevator panel in "The Blues Brothers"?
ReplyDeleteIt's been too long since I last saw the movie! Probably a medium-sized Yankee; and who doesn't routinely carry one of those? :)
ReplyDeleteI have a Stanley produced Yankee 68-131A, 28" that sits in my garage, waiting for use during storm season. I had to have something one-handed operation and non-electric for putting up hurricane shutters. Very impressive when it opens up "Zzzztchack!" I have a medium and small sized one as well. I need to get a hex bit adaptor for all 3 sizes though. Thanks for posting this to remind me. Great Stuff!
ReplyDeleteWCY: For whatever it is worth, the largest-size spring-loaded Yankees are best stored open: they will go right through the unsuspecting individual who puzzles out how to unlock them without knowing what comes next.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankee Screwdrivers (also functioning as drills) show a level of inventiveness and creativity that seems to have almost vanished from America today. Instead, all we see are the cordless driver drills, all made in the Far East. I seriously doubt that we have left in the USA today the manufacturing capability to make the Yankee Screwdrivers, at least not with American made machine tools for the manufacture. We are in a sad state.
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