OT Anyone know where to get this tool?

Caryc

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I once took a lawn mower to a shop to get it running. The guy adjusted the carburetor. Anyway what he used was a regular flat blade screwdriver but it had an outer sleeve around the blade. This sleeve fit over the little screw and kept the blade from slipping out of the screw while the engine was running and vibrating.

Anyone know where to get a tool like this or is this strictly a home made thing?
 
(quoted from post at 12:11:15 06/01/16) I once took a lawn mower to a shop to get it running. The guy adjusted the carburetor. Anyway what he used was a regular flat blade screwdriver but it had an outer sleeve around the blade. This sleeve fit over the little screw and kept the blade from slipping out of the screw while the engine was running and vibrating.

Anyone know where to get a tool like this or is this strictly a home made thing?
Amazon has a bunch of carb tools that are similar to what you describe.
 
(quoted from post at 14:11:15 06/01/16) I once took a lawn mower to a shop to get it running. The guy adjusted the carburetor. Anyway what he used was a regular flat blade screwdriver but it had an outer sleeve around the blade. This sleeve fit over the little screw and kept the blade from slipping out of the screw while the engine was running and vibrating.

Anyone know where to get a tool like this or is this strictly a home made thing?

It is probably more of a tamper proof screwdriver .

http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Carburetor-Adjustment-Tool-Screwdriver-for-2-Cycle-Small-Engine-/311623018666?hash=item488e2de8aa:g:C~gAAOSwMHdXQvbz
 
(quoted from post at 12:18:54 06/01/16)
(quoted from post at 12:11:15 06/01/16) I once took a lawn mower to a shop to get it running. The guy adjusted the carburetor. Anyway what he used was a regular flat blade screwdriver but it had an outer sleeve around the blade. This sleeve fit over the little screw and kept the blade from slipping out of the screw while the engine was running and vibrating.

Anyone know where to get a tool like this or is this strictly a home made thing?
Amazon has a bunch of carb tools that are similar to what you describe.

I looked through about 4 pages and didn't see anything like it. All they had were tools for different weird head screws like torques and stars and such.
 
(quoted from post at 12:27:20 06/01/16) google screw holding screwdriver.

I don't think you guys understand what I'm talking about. Picture a small engine like a weed whacker or lawnmower. You're trying to adjust the carburetor with the engine running.

It's vibrating all over the place and your flat blade screwdriver just keeps slipping out of the screw slot. With the tool pictured below you just insert the outer sleeve over the screw head and turn it until the blade engages the slot. It can't slip out of the slot like that. By the way, you're trying to do this with one hand since your other hand is holding the engine or the throttle.

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There are various types of adjusting tools for the recently made small engine carburetors. Thanks, feds.

In times past, such tools were readily available but it is becoming increasingly difficult to find some or all. Thanks, feds.

Sadly, most small engines will not perform properly with the factory settings unless just about everything is perfect. Thanks, feds.

Though an unnecessary nuisance, it has been relatively easy to find and buy the correct tool(s) needed to make your small engines perform well when all is not perfect, i.e., the real world.

Sadly, some overpaid, underworked federale sitting in some cube somewhere has figured out that those of us out here in the real world would search out and procure the necessary tools to make our small engines perform properly and the federales have put pressure on the manufacturers and distributors to make such tools less readily available.

Get 'em now if you can find 'em. This will only get worse.

Did I say, "thanks feds?"

Dean
 
(quoted from post at 12:38:39 06/01/16)
(quoted from post at 12:27:20 06/01/16) google screw holding screwdriver.

I don't think you guys understand what I'm talking about. Picture a small engine like a weed whacker or lawnmower. You're trying to adjust the carburetor with the engine running.

It's vibrating all over the place and your flat blade screwdriver just keeps slipping out of the screw slot. With the tool pictured below you just insert the outer sleeve over the screw head and turn it until the blade engages the slot. It can't slip out of the slot like that. By the way, you're trying to do this with one hand since your other hand is holding the engine or the throttle.

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Try one of theses in your nut driver. Pull collar back, insert bit of your choice, and slide collar forward to capture the screw head.

A little pricey. Should be able to locate at a big, box store close by.

http://www.westwayelectricsupply.co...UKcLP5IdD8eRQ--Y-zl2tlagNDp73b_v0gaAsHw8P8HAQ
 
back in the early 1970's I bought a set of Sears tools. There was a couple of small screwdrivers like that in the box. I havn't seen them in years.
 
Crimp one end of a blue wire connector(usually blue)onto a small screwdriver. The other blue plastic end will fit snugly over the screw and you won't have to be concerned with the slot.
 
Cary,

I had one exactly as you described and I regret having misplaced it -- probably still hiding in my shop somewhere.
I think it had a red handle and was probably a K-D tool.

T
 
(quoted from post at 17:14:23 06/01/16) Guitar tech sells a small capture bit. Might fit your needs.
Click here

Thank you, this might suit my needs. The blade was only $1.95 but the shipping was $6.95 so I went ahead and ordered the handle also for $7.95.

Thanks all you guys for the suggestions.
 
glad you found what you were looking for,
some various size snips of rubber tubing...vacuum line, surgical tubing, etc slipped over the end of the screwdriver works pretty good for that situation.
Also helps when trying to insert a screw in a tight spot with a long screwdriver, where your hand won't fit.
 
Have a couple of weedwhackers that weren't running right and the adjusting non-slotted screws were buried in a shroud making my nut driver impossible to fit. I hacksaw cut a slot through the housing and screw and voila, now can adjust with a little screwdriver. Two weed whackers back in business.
 
(quoted from post at 04:57:26 06/02/16) http://www.ebay.com/bhp/carburetor-adjusting-tool

ebay has lots of 'em

Did you even bother reading the posts in this thread? Did you check the links that Royce and ScoutB posted?

Did you even look at the drawing that I posted?

The Ebay link you posted for "lots of 'em" has nothing even close to what I was looking for. But thanks anyway, I think.

By the way, Amazon also has all those sets you saw on Ebay. Again, nothing that I want.
 
(quoted from post at 09:09:52 06/02/16)
(quoted from post at 04:57:26 06/02/16) http://www.ebay.com/bhp/carburetor-adjusting-tool

ebay has lots of 'em

Did you even bother reading the posts in this thread? Did you check the links that Royce and ScoutB posted?

Did you even look at the drawing that I posted?

The Ebay link you posted for "lots of 'em" has nothing even close to what I was looking for. But thanks anyway, I think.

By the way, Amazon also has all those sets you saw on Ebay. Again, nothing that I want.

Geez, just trying to help. :roll:
 
(quoted from post at 09:39:06 06/02/16)
(quoted from post at 09:09:52 06/02/16)
(quoted from post at 04:57:26 06/02/16) http://www.ebay.com/bhp/carburetor-adjusting-tool

ebay has lots of 'em

Did you even bother reading the posts in this thread? Did you check the links that Royce and ScoutB posted?

Did you even look at the drawing that I posted?

The Ebay link you posted for "lots of 'em" has nothing even close to what I was looking for. But thanks anyway, I think.

By the way, Amazon also has all those sets you saw on Ebay. Again, nothing that I want.

Geez, just trying to help. :roll:

Well...I'm sorry but if you had looked at the drawing that I made and looked at the stuff on your Ebay link you would have seen that they were no where near what I wanted.

I guess it's an easy mistake. People open a thread and read a couple of the posts then go down to the end and post something. It happens a lot. That's why I read everything in a thread before I make a post in it. :wink:
 
Cary,

I see you've already picked up something so don't take my head off, but THIS is the carb adjusting tool I had.

It is a K-D GM Carburetor Adjusting Tool 2776
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P.S.

If you can easily go straight on with a screwdriver there's no real need for a collar around the bit. but with the flexible shaft enabling comfortable round-the-corner access to the screw, you NEED the collar.
 

If you look at the one review for the one on Amazon, the customer says it doesn't have the slotted bit he's looking for.
 
Things that make you go Hmmmm. :)

Here's the KD Catalogue and the number is correct.
Catalog

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This one is exactly the one I had and it definitely has a slotted bit
and an alternate insert, which is logical since it is geared to older 2 bbl/4bbl GM carb adj screws.
 
quote="Caryc"](reply to post at 12:11:15 06/01/16) [/quote]

I think that Sears sold those type of screw drivers. You can make your own with a small piece of clear Tygon tubing. Slip the tubing over the end of the screw driver so that it will hold on and then leave enough tubing exposed at the end of the screw driver tip to slip over the screw. - David
 
Go to your local powersports/motorcycle shop. K&L tool offers something like you're looking for. I think mine cost more than $20 though, it's about 14" long with a curve at the end.

Motion Pro 08-0119 is the model I use. Fleabay has them listed.
 
I use a split spade screwdriver like the one pictured attached

blade is split, when you push the slide down the two half's of the blade tighten up on the screw slot and holds on to the screw,

not the same as what you are looking for, but I can assure you, no working mans tool box needs to be without one of these screwdrivers.

as sometimes you must pick up the screw or start the screw in a hard to reach spot,
this good quality split spade screwdriver will be your best friend.

I do not own a screwdriver like the one you are asking about, but now I have something to look for, I need one too,
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(quoted from post at 05:33:43 06/04/16) I use a split spade screwdriver like the one pictured attached

blade is split, when you push the slide down the two half's of the blade tighten up on the screw slot and holds on to the screw,

not the same as what you are looking for, but I can assure you, no working mans tool box needs to be without one of these screwdrivers.

as sometimes you must pick up the screw or start the screw in a hard to reach spot,
this good quality split spade screwdriver will be your best friend.

I do not own a screwdriver like the one you are asking about, but now I have something to look for, I need one too,
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Pretty cool. I remember now that I used to have a small (about 6") screw driver like that. I really don't know what happened to it now.
 
(quoted from post at 11:04:41 06/02/16)
If you look at the one review for the one on Amazon, the customer says it doesn't have the slotted bit he's looking for.

Cary,

If that reply was to me . . . THIS is what the REVIEW in the Amazon link you provided actually says:

[color=darkblue:76c65303ec]Product received is NOT what is pictured as the item in listing.

So I am STILL in need of, and looking for, the slotted tool (as pictured in the listing) to adjust my QuadraJet E4ME carburetor.

If you too are seeking the slotted carburetor tool, what you see is NOT what you're going to receive.[/color:76c65303ec]

In other words the number doesn't belong with the tool pictured So how about a bare minimum of appreciation, acknowledgment even, for the effort in supplying you with the correct K-D tool and number. (?)

Signed,
Chopped Liver
 
(quoted from post at 11:13:50 06/04/16)
(quoted from post at 11:04:41 06/02/16)
If you look at the one review for the one on Amazon, the customer says it doesn't have the slotted bit he's looking for.

Cary,

If that reply was to me . . . THIS is what the REVIEW in the Amazon link you provided actually says:

[color=darkblue:2a5546c0a6]Product received is NOT what is pictured as the item in listing.

So I am STILL in need of, and looking for, the slotted tool (as pictured in the listing) to adjust my QuadraJet E4ME carburetor.

If you too are seeking the slotted carburetor tool, what you see is NOT what you're going to receive.[/color:2a5546c0a6]

In other words the number doesn't belong with the tool pictured So how about a bare minimum of appreciation, acknowledgment even, for the effort in supplying you with the correct K-D tool and number. (?)

Signed,
Chopped Liver

I seem to have unintentionally ruffled your feathers. I didn't mean to slight you in any way. I thank you for your help and everyone else that replied to my question.

I seem to have developed a knack for offending people without even trying.
 
WELLMAX,

These are my screw grabbers, that I've had for 35 years.
The longer bluish one is a Stanley (magnet on back end) and will hang onto a phillips or a regular screw.

The short white one with the square tip is a BLUEPOINT and I ALWAYS use it to grab point and condenser hold-down screws -- to get them started or any screw I don't want to drop into the works.

To cock them one pulls back on the steel collar and twists.
Pushing the tool into the screw trips it and engages the center lock.
I love the U.S.A. Bluepoint one . . . so small but so important to my tool collection with the best of steel as well.

Tery

COCKED
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ENGAGED
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Cary,

Thanks for that.
Sorry I snapped. I guess I'm too much of a stickler for email help lists and forum "etiquette" when it comes to responses and acknowledgment for efforts I might have made on someone behalf -- even if it was a failed attempt to help. So like a lady friend of mine in Maryland would say to me when I was guilty of the same, "You've been remiss." :)

Terry
 
P.S.

I used to hold my breath but I've n[b:155e1ec91c]ever[/b:155e1ec91c] had a screw go flying off once the Bluepoint lock was engaged in the slot -- even a beat up slot. Tough spring load too.
 

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