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Anyone have trouble getting the lights and other doo-dads off a pull behind trailer for wraps?
A square head S2 driver does the trick! DUH!!!! I didn't know this!
If you look at the rivits on a trailer they have eight points....so you think an eight star point driver inserted into the drill is going to work...and you'll never find the right size!
Well, its not a eight, its A SQUARE four point S2 that fits into the rivit head!
Just sharing
edited because in my excitement...I called it a T2 and its an "S2" bit found everywhere and probably came with your dirll!
I feel so silly but happy now!
[ November 17, 2006, 05:27 PM: Message edited by: Dave Draper ]
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and to think I just bought a kit of all the odd sizes & types of driver tips so I could deal with odd jobs....
(obviously I'm a bit square, and a tad rednecked too! Thanks for the heads-up, Dave!)
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I went to 3 hardware stores looking for the right bit before one older gentlemen at a mom and pop store said "well if its got 8 points a square bit will work, won't it" after I spent an hour driving to stores to get the proper bit I brobably had 15 of the square ones in different kits.
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We have a lot of manufactured homes industry around here. A customer saw me struggling with thos rivets one day, and said " Hey, that's what all the trailer plants use. I'll bring you a bit. I marked it yellow to make it easier to find, but still kept it at home for about 5 years, bringing it when I had a trailer job.
The trailer just looks so much better if you apply graphics, then replace the rivets. You don't even notice it. I'm pretty sure you would notice trying to apply vinyl over the rivets.
Getting way off topic, I've kept up with that bit (it has about a 3" shank) all this time. Unfortunately, I gave a "former" crack addict a job this summer, and somehow he stole almost every hand tool I had. He was so-o-o thankful I would give him a chance, so thankful that he took hundreds (or maybe a couple thousand) dollars worth of tools, and pawned them for probably $100. The thing is, if he was straight, you've never seen anyone work harder. I'm pretty naive, so I didn't recognize the bad bays. As much as I like to help people, I'll never hire anyone else I suspect being a drug user. I don't want to pay for drug tests, but these people can put you out of business, quickly! These are sometimes great, talented people who've passed the point of helping themselves. The drug controls them, and I doubt very many of them believed they could become addicted.
I hardly ever post, but I'm still venting over the tools.
Tim Borden
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