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• Mini Philips Driver Set

• Mini Flat Head Set

• Low Profile Ratchet

• Mini Nut Driver Set

• I don’t know who makes this style of precision (not very) mini screwdrivers, but they must make a boatload of them, and they’ve been at it for a very long time. I must have nearly a hundred that have infiltrated my shop, home, and office, creeping in at night or perhaps hidden in the bottom of other tool boxes.

• Words cannot describe the deeply satisfying nature of this cell phone repair screwdriver set. The holder is solid aluminum with precision ball bearings that let the selection of screwdrivers spin like the wheels of an Italian sportscar (if it had ball bearings made by Germans). Each individual screwdriver is a work of art, precision made, perfectly balanced, and built for a lifetime of taking almost microscopically tiny screws out of devices whose manufacturer’s don’t want you messing with them. The individual dome-shaped caps are on ball bearings and will spin seemingly forever, like a built-in fidget spinner on each screwdriver.

• Individual screwdrivers are very cheap to make: just take a metal bar, bit of grinding on one end, injection mold a handle directly onto the other end, and you’re done. Even full-size ones can be made for a few cents each, which allows large sets like this to cost under twenty dollars (retail in the US, so the cost of production is at most five dollars).

• Mini Ratchet Set

• This is my current, as of 2022, favorite mini screwdriver set. It’s better-made than my previous favorite, and includes the size of pentalobe screw used in iPhones.

• This was long my favorite mini screwdriver set. I got three or four of them to keep in different places. Sadly they predate pentalobe screws, so you can’t use them with Apple products.

• Hex Wrench Set

• As with drill bit sets, don’t buy the expensive Allen wrench sets! You will lose these very quickly. Buy cheap ones and consolidate as needed to keep a few reasonably complete sets.

• Hex Wrench Set

• Given that electric drill/drivers are so common, it makes sense to have bit sets that combine drills and screwdriver bits.

• Around Christmas time you start seeing more exotic driver sets in the gift section.

• There are a lot of inexpensive mini driver sets with several dozen bits, both general purpose and security. I have pretty much every one I’ve ever laid eyes on.

• This beautiful hand-made British ball-handled screwdriver is best as a gift given to someone else, who will have to deal with actually using it.

• Nut drivers also come in sets for use with whatever handle you already have.

• Nut drivers are a more common way to drive very small nuts and bolts, but sometimes you need to be able to get to them from the side, making a set like this handy.

• Nut driver sets are handy if you have a lot of nuts and are not a squirrel.

• Someone figured out the key to not losing Allen wrenches and welded home-made handles onto these.

• This odd round-handled driver set belonged to my dad.

• Security bit sets start simple: this one has just a few sizes of “security torx” bits, which are six-pointed stars like normal torx, but with a hole in the middle to accommodate the peg that blocks normal torx bits.

• Bags full of cheap screwdrivers. Everyone should have a few or ten.

• Screwdrivers

• Low Profile Ratchet

• Hex Wrench Set

• Mini Hex Driver Set

• Assorted Precision Screwdrivers

• This set has mini-screwdrivers that can be used as-is, or inserted into the handle for more leverage.

• These are very small nut drivers. The largest is for #2 imperial nuts and the smallest is for #00 nuts, which are 5/64 inch (just over 1/16 inch or 2mm) across.

• This right angle drive adapter is small, which is nice, but makes it harder to use because you have to be able to hold onto it even if it’s underneath something and hard to reach.

• If you actually use Allen wrenches a lot, a much larger T-handle set is worth it. I have these two, one metric and one Imperial, in my metal shop, and did not lose a single one in decades, because they are too big to lose easily.

• T-Handle Allen Wrenchs

• T-handle drivers

• Big hex wrenches.

• Stubby nut driver.

Do you have a better example of this kind of tool? Let me know by leaving a comment, and include a picture of it if you can so everyone can see!