{"id":533,"date":"2012-02-05T21:20:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=533"},"modified":"2012-02-05T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T19:22:19","slug":"drill-a-screw-1-handed-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Drill a screw [1-handed way]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am sure there must be dozens of ways to drill in screws with just one hand.<\/p>\n

There are magnetic screw divers or drill bits. Maybe a drop of glue that is easy to rub off later. \u00a0Or fixing the screw head with the index finger.<\/p>\n

Here I use sticky tape.<\/p>\n

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I generally suggest to use\u00a0Torx<\/a> screwsfor all one-handed projects.<\/p>\n

Their screw heads allow for large momentum to be transmitted. Conversely, slit head screws may deform easily particularly when I slip with the screw driver. And Philips screw heads cannot take excessive momentum due to the way they are constructed.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see how the screw is fixed to the drill using cheap thin sticky tape.<\/p>\n

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This is the first part of drilling that screw into a piece of wood for demonstration purposes (video).<\/p>\n

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Once the battery driven power drill stops being of use (as it craps out) I will switch to using a ratchet.<\/p>\n

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For the hard part of drilling that screw into hardwood (for demonstration purposes here) I am using a ratchet (video):<\/p>\n

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[Deutsche Version] I am sure there must be dozens of ways to drill in screws with just one hand. There are magnetic screw divers or drill bits. Maybe a drop of glue that is easy to rub off later. \u00a0Or fixing the screw head with the index finger. Here I use sticky tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,57,78,12,15,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-of-daily-living","category-artwork-prosthesis","category-mechanical-works","category-tricks","category-tricks-one-handed","category-workshop-repairs-tools","wpcat-98-id","wpcat-57-id","wpcat-78-id","wpcat-12-id","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-130-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 17:32:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}