Bolt tool?

[owen01]

Hi,

Can anyone identify this tool please - and the missing handle?

It's about 18cm / 7 inches long

Thanks

 

[JohnD]

long ago, my old dad had a Stanley Ratchet screwdriver kit, where the drivers slotted into the handle using that kind of finned shaft.

It is possible that your tool was intended to go into some kind of handle. It would have been quite light duty as hex socket spanners usually have a forged square drive.

 

[owen01]

Thanks,

Hex socket spanner, well I better look for one of those: had to wrench this one with pliers to upgrade my car radio - only thing which would budge the bolts under the dash

 

[pinenot]

Looks like a reversible screwdriver blade like one of these -

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[JohnD]

the modern equivalent would be a 1/4" or 3/8" socket set, the 1/4" ones often come with a screwdriver-like spinner handle, often with a weak ratchet in it, but they now come with a straight extension to go between the handle and the socket, rather than, like yours, having an extension seemingly fixed to the socket. The ratchet handles break easily. The square drive is much stronger than the fins on yours.

Sets vary from about 99p to about £100

http://www.screwfix.com/p/teng-tools-modular-drive-socket-set-35pcs/24631

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-101-P...t=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item2a3ed76561

cheap sets often also come with a multitude of screwdriver bits, most of which you will never use, or the bit holder will be too bulky to fit in a tight place. I have one in the tray under the engine of my car, where it fell out of the handle.

 

[owen01]

Thanks to all Now I know what it is I can replace it.

 

[foxhole]

You can grind off the fins and use in a cordless drill.

 

[owen01]

That's a point!

 

[mattylad]

A car screwdriver - usually comes with a reversible shank.

I would not buy a new handle unless its cheap - the whole nut driver tool is not that expensive.

(I have 2 sets of imperial and metric sizes somewhere lol).

 

[owen01]

Thanks - I'll google for 'car screwdriver', sounds good

 

[Burnerman]

Its proper name is a nut spinner - if its not history by now
John

 

[owen01]

mystery solved?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nut-Spinner...id=1403545863&sr=8-5&keywords=nut+spinner+set

 

[maltaron]

Also known as nut runner