Not strictly Test Equipment, but certainly related to TEA repairs, I purchased this Hitachi/Metabo power screwdriver on Shahriar's endorsement in one of the recent Signal Path episodes: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L78Y72J/
Looking forward to trying it. Unlike a lot of others, it has a very large selection of clutch settings down to very low torque so it should make disassembly and reassembly of test gear much easier.
That thing is a effing abortion... I can see at least 6 glaring noob engineer "I'm an imbecile who doesn't actually use tools" design mistakes... and why the FUCK is the motor/gearhead portion so big/long? It could literally be HALF that size and do the job.
mnem
*running away before the yuckyputz gets all over me*
It's honestly not as big as the pictures make it seem. Feels pretty nice in the hand.
meh. I’ve bought and got rid of dozens just like it; the whole design is a recycled clusterfuck from years gone by.
Black & Decker tried the flip-out grip decades ago; they abandoned it because they got reamed by the customers over the built-in pinch points that make the design a blood-blister factory.
The rocker paddle on the side means it’s only really good in screwdriver mode; in pistol mode for righties it’s inconvenient, for lefties it’s unusable.
Proprietary single-cell packs in this day & age? 18650 cells and chargers are cheap and more common than D cells anymore.
And single-cell means slow as flurp; probably 450-550 RPM.
That pregnant motor/gearbox section tells me that even though they’re charging “real tool” prices, they couldn’t be arsed to actually design a new tool; they just made a flip-out shell for some discontinued drill gearbox and 1S-voltage motor.
That thing is no more than a Versa-Pack B&D electric screwdriver in Hitachi green.
mnem
meh and a half.