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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: HeelSpur on May 01, 2015, 07:21:16 AM

Title: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: HeelSpur on May 01, 2015, 07:21:16 AM

Of all the wood handled screwdrivers that I've come across this is the first that has a number on the tip.
Are the numbered ones any harder to find than others?


(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j368/wvabe/001_17.jpg)

Title: Re: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: Papaw on May 01, 2015, 09:38:59 AM

 I have seen a few, but not many. That is one of the Six-Sixty models.

Title: Re: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: mikeswrenches on May 01, 2015, 12:42:49 PM

I must be missing something.  My 660's have a depressed area in front of the wood with a big S on one side and 660 on the other.

Mike

Title: Re: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: Papaw on May 01, 2015, 02:39:09 PM

This one has the Six Sixty on the shaft curling around it.

Here is the one you mention. This was rescaled by our own 64longstep in Arizona. Brian rescaled it with Purpleheart that I had sent him some time ago.
 (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5304/5611878519_c7d54bb9f3.jpg)

I have a  14" #8 waiting for me to clean up. The Six Sixty logo is very faint, and I think it will disappear if I try too hard.

Bus showed a winged in the Saak auction in 2011. Lot #126 , item #2.

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/saak-2011/VS-0125-126.jpg~original)

Title: Re: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: mikeswrenches on May 02, 2015, 01:58:39 PM

Does that mean that all the round shank screwdrivers are 660's?

Mike

Title: Re: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: Papaw on May 02, 2015, 10:24:11 PM

No . it does not. In the last catalog the Six Sixties are not mentioned at all.

Title: Re: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: HeelSpur on May 03, 2015, 04:48:20 AM

This one has a number in the stamped area that goes around the shaft but there's a nick over the #.
Has a pat'd date, if I remember correctly its Aug 25, 06.

Title: Re: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: HeelSpur on May 03, 2015, 04:32:34 PM

So much for the #8 being the only one I've seen in the wild. Picked up this #2 today and saw a #6 in an antique store, but it had a price tag of $17 so I let it be.

(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j368/wvabe/012_5.jpg)

Title: Re: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: Bill Houghton on May 03, 2015, 04:49:01 PM

I'm envious.  None of my perfect handle drivers are numbered.

Title: Re: #8 PH screwdriver
Post by: Papaw on June 29, 2015, 08:29:42 PM

I just received a #8 H D Smith Six-Sixty in a lot of three screwdrivers bought on  this Facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/groups/antiquetoolsbuyselltrade/search/?query=screwdrivers (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antiquetoolsbuyselltrade/search/?query=screwdrivers)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/papao55/Assorted%20wrenches/Three%20Perfect%20Handles_zpsxdcjlmso.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/papao55/media/Assorted%20wrenches/Three%20Perfect%20Handles_zpsxdcjlmso.jpg.html)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/papao55/Assorted%20wrenches/Perfect%20handle%20logo_zpsnxfrwhpy.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/papao55/media/Assorted%20wrenches/Perfect%20handle%20logo_zpsnxfrwhpy.jpg.html)