Are you using the right screwdriver?

[schooltech]

Ha!! I also use a 12" Snap On. Taking the foot long out of the bag can get a funny response from someone that has never seen it before. My response is usually, "It's all about the torque!!" Depending on who it is, I can take it a bit further, but I have to watch what I say!!!!!!

Actually, I've used this same driver for about six or seven years, and have yet to change anything on it, like a new tip. It truly bites, and when accompanied with my 5.5 mm driver, there isn't much that can't be tackled.

I think that most of us have what's comfortable for our daily needs. My shop tools are not very nice, but for the in-house work, it is fine for what I need them for.

[philjessen]

Image Supply stocks both the Vessel and Hozan lines of JIS Phillips screwdrivers and their own 5.5mm nutdrivers with strong magnetics and small diameter sockets in 8" and 5" blade lengths. Image Supply Service

Phil

[Iowatech]

If you can find inch size sockets, a quarter inch drive 7/32" socket will work just as well as a 5.5 mm one. I've been using the same 7/32" socket for years, and the socket came in a Stanley ratcheting screwdriver set.
Back in the day, when I inherited my first tool kit from the tech I replaced, it contained an "Acme" phillips head screwdriver bit. That worked perfectly in even screws that were somewhat damaged or manufactured sloppily. But I'm pretty sure that is only available from "Snap-On" tools and the like, so I'd guess there's a hefty sum to be paid for one of those.
If all else fails and the screw head gets stripped out, most of the time I can just grab it with my diagonal cutters and pop it loose, and then use pretty much any screwdriver to remove it the rest of the way. Doing it that way requires a rich selection of miscellaneous hardware in your "small pieces that can get easily lost if dropped" collection, though.

[AyJayAreDii]

I have never seen the screws with a dot? but is that not just a plain old pz#2 screw?

[CraigW]

I have never seen the screws with a dot? but is that not just a plain old pz#2 screw?

The JIS tips fit so much better in these screws over a #2.

[CSI]

"The best" screwdriver in a spinner 5,5 :
Commandez Tournevis TOURNE-ECROU 5.5 MM CK 4334M 5.5MM sur rswww.fr et soyez livrés dès le lendemain.
Commandez Tournevis Tourne-écrou métrique, 5,5mm A/F RS SD-0888 sur rswww.fr et soyez livrés dès le lendemain.

impossible to damaging a head

[Hansoon]

Commandez Tournevis TOURNE-ECROU 5.5 MM CK 4334M 5.5MM sur rswww.fr et soyez livrés dès le lendemain.
Commandez Tournevis Tourne-écrou métrique, 5,5mm A/F RS SD-0888 sur rswww.fr et soyez livrés dès le lendemain.

What Le Fuck?

Hans

[CSI]

If you prefere :

[Lagonda]

I'll drag this one out of the cellar,

Who sells JIS screwdrivers in Oz?

I've tried all the major dealers and a few manufactures but so far no one has offered to sell me one. Any leads?

[NeoMatrix]

I'll drag this one out of the cellar,

Who sells JIS screwdrivers in Oz?

I've tried all the major dealers and a few manufactures but so far no one has offered to sell me one. Any leads?

<dust> <dust> <dust>.... wooshssh... Just blowing the dust and cobwebs off this post.

I always thought that screw heads are either PK (pozidrive?) or Phillips....
You can angle grind the tip off PK drivers and use them as a Phillips drivers, or is it visa-versa.

Some Web search Trivia for those:
screw drive systems

http://revlimiter.net/store/jis-screwdrivers.php