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    Quote Originally Posted by austastar View Post
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    I knew them as Archimedes' screw drivers. Some were about 2'6" long and a skilled journeyman could sink a 3" screw with one or two plunges.
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    I can just imagine going to the Store & asking the usually grumpy Store person( looking nonplussed) for one if those.

    "Listen Matey, don't come the old soldiers with me & wasting me time wottissit you really want?

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    Quote Originally Posted by austastar View Post
    Hi,
    a skilled journeyman could sink a 3" screw with one or two plunges.
    I never found it useful, probably because I was not very adept at using it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    I just noticed the narration was by Terry Dear. Who else remembers him from radio and early TV?
    Never heard of him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post


    I can just imagine going to the Store & asking the usually grumpy Store person( looking nonplussed) for one if those.

    "Listen Matey, don't come the old soldiers with me & wasting me time wottissit you really want?
    We used to send the apprentice to the store to get a left handed screwdriver,and if that didn't work a tin of elbow grease.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scarry View Post
    We used to send the apprentice to the store to get a left handed screwdriver,and if that didn't work a tin of elbow grease.
    I got sent for a can of compression powder.
    Other favourites I've heard of were, a bucket of steam or sparks, spare bubble for a spirit level, the old chestnut, a long wait/weight, and a skyhook.
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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    I never found it useful, probably because I was not very adept at using it.
    I think it is a case of practice make perfect Ron.f

    By the time one grabs a new screw from the box & tries to line up the driver head with the slot it could be knock off time. I never saw my bruv using his so he probably used 4" nails & said bugger it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by scarry View Post
    We used to send the apprentice to the store to get a left handed screwdriver,and if that didn't work a tin of elbow grease.
    ........... & you said it with such fearmongering that even if he/she thought it was was fishy didn't dare contradict.

    The other one I recall was to go to the Lunch Shop & come back with a Pregnant Pause or a Pregnant Tart. Of course old Mr Dutton or Mrs Dutton had heard it all before over the years. I don't recall the response.
    Ah the Good old Days!
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    I do recall though that Mrs Dutton had her hair cut & styled in the same manner of dear Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday in 1953 & she looked a million $. One of the very first I saw & the rest followed like sheep.

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    A favorite at the workshop my mate did his time, was honey rollover and let us on top. For the nine years he worked there, the message from the smoko bar was always the same 'Tell xyz we're out of honey.'
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    Never heard of him.

    I did. I think it was The Amateur Hour . Sponsor????? Colgate Palmolive?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Killer View Post
    Yes, when was the last time you saw a Yankee Screwdriver used in anger? Not a lot of power tools in those days. And CorTen steel was all the go. Now its all the go for a rusty appearance that doesn't corrode.

    I was once asked to roll corten r200, 6mm, my 5 inch plate rolls would not move it, my plate wheeling machine did the job
    corten pulls like crazy when welded, plus it needs lo hydrogen
    pity it costs moonbeams here, i built a round brick house with a slate roof, corten, or weathering steel looks great, my idea for Tornado Ally USA, Round house, coned corten roof, stead of that they rebuild with matchsticks

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