Seems everytime I look for a phillips screwdriver, I can't find one!

Do they congregate somewhere? Because if they do, I would like to know that place! - All I can find right now is either a really small one (like for watches) or a stubby...and of course the stubby can only reach the one of two screws.

Anybody else have this trouble or is it just my curse?

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

The same place all the left foot socks go after you empty the dryer.

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No phillips included.

I've been using the 4 way combo for years. It's good for a carpenter on the job because you can have 4 screwdrivers in your tool bags with you.

You've probably seen them. You pull out the main shaft and turn it around to change from phillips to flat and pull out the smaller shaft on each end to change from #1 to #2 phillips or flat. I get the brightest color I can find cause I hate wanting it and not finding it.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

... and the first three you do find will are worn down until they make a better ice pick than screwdriver!

I use one of those 4 ways at work - it is always in my toolbag when not in use. It is clear and grey in color.

I have a great big rolling tool box, but it doesn't like to roll over lawn, so I grab what I need and walk to the patient (indoors or out). The return trip, however, seems to have a glitch in the system somewhere.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

...because they go down so easy.

Milk of Magnesia and Vodka = Phillips Screwdriver

What a wonderful concept,blasting away constipation while sh-t faced,gives new meaning to the term "stinking drunk"

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My tool box senses what type of screwdrivers I need for any given project, and then hides them. If I need straight drivers, all that are in my box are phillips. If the project requires a phillips, all that are in there are straight. The only exception is, if I need a#3 Phillips, I might just find a #1.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Digging around Mistress Heather's toolkit again, huh?

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2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

so they sold you one of those boxes too?

it seems that everytime i goto look for somthing I cannot find it...but when i am looking for that somthing everything I was looking for last time (and failed to find) turns up!

ie i was looking for electrical tape...didnt find a single roll
next i was looking for duct..then i found 5 rolls of electrical!

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82 300SD 145k
89 420SEL 210k
89 560SEL 118k
90 300SE 262k RIP 5/25/2010
90 560SEL 154k
91 300D 2.5 Turbo. 241k
93 190E 3.0 235k
93 300E 195k

For me they are not gone I just have to look for the site of my last three unfinished projects and then go down to the workbench and look in the boxes of the stuff that I cleaned up the previous sites with. Of course by the time I find them the alloted job time has tripled. Except for the right angle grinder that I'm pretty sure either the plummer of the cable guy stole. I'm sure that will turn up the day I buy a new one.

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1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831799-post13.html
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831807-post14.html

Which begs hte question, why two tpes of screws(initially)?

Now we have the 5 star and the this and the that, but why the 2 different ones(phillips and flat)?

Who thought of that and why?

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The Phillips was designed for automated tooling machines. You don't have to line it up and it slots right in.

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I seem to have a similar problem.

Not only do my phillips screwdrivers always go MIA (And I KNOW I left a good one in the junkyard recently dammit!), I also seem to lose my 11mm wrenches even though I almost never use them, and 7/16 sockets - both for the 1/4" and 3/8" drives. I haven't lost the 7/16 for the 1/2" drive YET. YET.

Also, has anyone seen my wire brushes for the Dremel? I swear I had like 10 last time I looked, now I can only find 3...

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