Project Information
I was rummaging through some drawers and I found this screwdriver bit holder I made probably 35+ years ago when I was working in Illinois. I made this shortly after I won a ¼" B&D cordless drill from Kmart (remember them?) along with some other tools. I still have all the other tools but the battery in the drill failed after 18 months and it was way too costly to replace.
Back then I worked for a switch company that made, obviously switches, from the mechanical contact type to solid state sensors. Some of these switch/sensor products used magnets that ranged from the old iron nickel to barium ferrite filled PVC magnets in many shapes. I had samples of the PVC magnets from many different suppliers because we were in the process of investigating the properties of the PVC magnets for some of our applications.
I took one of the PVC magnets to hold my screwdriver bits but the bits kept getting tangled, or falling on their sides, or trying to find the proper size/type. So I took a scrap piece of maple, drilled 20 holes in the maple, cut a relief in the back of the maple for the magnet, and cut the PVC magnet into a strip to ftit in the relief. Then, to finish it off, I added a thin cover on top of the magnets. The bits don't get tangled, don't fall over, and don't fall out even when held upside-down.
I could not have posted this when I made it as there was no personal computer (intel had not yet been born), no common access to the internet, and obviously no Lumberjocks Web site.
Back then I worked for a switch company that made, obviously switches, from the mechanical contact type to solid state sensors. Some of these switch/sensor products used magnets that ranged from the old iron nickel to barium ferrite filled PVC magnets in many shapes. I had samples of the PVC magnets from many different suppliers because we were in the process of investigating the properties of the PVC magnets for some of our applications.
I took one of the PVC magnets to hold my screwdriver bits but the bits kept getting tangled, or falling on their sides, or trying to find the proper size/type. So I took a scrap piece of maple, drilled 20 holes in the maple, cut a relief in the back of the maple for the magnet, and cut the PVC magnet into a strip to ftit in the relief. Then, to finish it off, I added a thin cover on top of the magnets. The bits don't get tangled, don't fall over, and don't fall out even when held upside-down.
I could not have posted this when I made it as there was no personal computer (intel had not yet been born), no common access to the internet, and obviously no Lumberjocks Web site.