Bugged By Those Crazy Tiny Terminal Block Screws?

[MEXICOWANDERER]

I should have searched for these sooner. Tip: WiHa makes some fine screwdrivers.

Suicide Prevention Screwdrivers

[SCVJeff]

THIS ONE ?

A little 33 coulda prevented this too... 🙂

[MEXICOWANDERER]

My 5-year old grand daughter wet her britches when I first came across that image. She fixated on bridges for a long while after.

Gonna order those Willi Hahn tools. Tired of screwing around stripping terminal blocks.

The Nevada DC line had 780kv and 660 amps for the thyristor inverter test. Torque wrench quadruple testing of fastener tightness. My end was some low voltage power backup for off grid relay switching. I watched the frizzy hair boys work from a very safe distance. Still have my category IV gauntlet gloves and booties from that one.

[NinerBikes]

SCVJeff wrote:

diveman52 wrote:
OMG, so many stupid people. A little scotch 33+ goes along ways.

yikes! From the mouth of retired IBEW.. 🙂

I think that came out of the mouth of the little snot breathing, booger picking guy that sleeps down under the bridge where it's dank all the time and a stream flows by.

[Gene_Ginny]

SCVJeff wrote:

diveman52 wrote:
OMG, so many stupid people. A little scotch 33+ goes along ways.

yikes! From the mouth of retired IBEW.. 🙂

I think he was refering to the electrical tape. Western Electric (which later became Lucent) installers were required to wrap 3 layers of tape on any tool used on a power distribution pannel.

[Gene_Ginny]

Bill/Diana wrote:
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I used to engineer those 48v, 24v and +/- 130 CO power plants back in the good old days.

You must remember those grasshopper fuses and trying to change them while on a wood rolling ladder. :E

[Bill_Diana]

Gene&Ginny wrote:

Campfire Time wrote:
Suicide prevention? Maybe I'm missing something. I just turn the power off when messing with anything electrical. Easy peasy.

In a telephone company central office we didn't have the option to turn off the power, you worked with a live bussbar all the time. Have you ever seen what a 1,000 amp 48 volt supply can do to a screwdriver? (yes, that is one thousand amp. some larger ones were four thousand amp.)

I used to engineer those 48v, 24v and +/- 130 CO power plants back in the good old days.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

Scorch 33 HAR HAR HAR

You'd need 000 scalpel and tweezers on a 25 AWG wire connection.

Thanks for the chuckle

The screwheads are a combination of all three

Square

Phillips

Straight blade

But no dedicated tip driver will fit. It takes a morphidite blade.

Some folks think 48-volts DC is a joke. It can kill you so fast it is breath-taking if grounding conditions are wrong. I've had my forearm burned with 12.5 volts. Wet skin.

[trailerbikecamp]

I got mine at an electric whole sale place. All they sell is electric supplies to electrical construction companies. Almost all of them will accept somebody coming in off the street. No waiting for delivery from Fed Ex. Terminal blocks, from my experience, come in flat blade and Philips style. I have a couple of each.

[SCVJeff]

diveman52 wrote:
OMG, so many stupid people. A little scotch 33+ goes along ways.

yikes! From the mouth of retired IBEW.. 🙂

[diveman52]

OMG, so many stupid people. A little scotch 33+ goes along ways.

[Bob_Shaw]

A #2 Phillips is fine as long as your not working on a Japanese or Korean car or cycle that the JIS standard. A Phillips wont fit tight and will strip out the head of the screw.

[Gene_Ginny]

Campfire Time wrote:
Suicide prevention? Maybe I'm missing something. I just turn the power off when messing with anything electrical. Easy peasy.

In a telephone company central office we didn't have the option to turn off the power, you worked with a live bussbar all the time. Have you ever seen what a 1,000 amp 48 volt supply can do to a screwdriver? (yes, that is one thousand amp. some larger ones were four thousand amp.)

[MEXICOWANDERER]

The screws I'm talking about are Misery Inc. Without the right bit, connections cannot be tightened enough. Two are in the shopping basket.

[Bill_Diana]

Harbor Freight #2 Phillips Head screwdriver is my all time favorite, most functional tool. And for $1.79 you cannot go wrong. That's all I need.