1/16 tips
 

Does anyone else have problems with snapping the 1/16 drivers? What make of tips do people think are the strongest?

Ben

no - I find the 2mm ones are crap and round out first


Ive got CML ones there not bad

The reason you are snapping them is because you are doing up things with it at an angle, which puts loads of pressure on them.

I cant say i havent angled the driver.. lol

what make of tips do you use eastwell?

Ive still got my AE ones, im just waiting for them to wear out. My 1/16th one snapped when i was in a rush and angled it. Ill have a look at my other one, it's never broken, but the tip is moulded into the handle, cant remember the make.

The new associated ones are rubbish! Mine are made of cheese, I have had them about a year now and I have had to grind them back so many times (because they round off) that I already need a new 16th tip and my 0.50" lasted about 5 minutes :thumbdown:

My old AE driver lasted 13 years before finally I snapped it.

are the AE ones the colour coded lot - pink red blue and that?

Yeah.

oh ive snapped them- i stil have the handels in the box lol

the gold one snapped first and the rest took a dive after- the 2mm ones i hate are red as well = but it think there fastrax

And I thought it was me being a tit that was breaking them:D

I keep the Associated handles, and put EDS shafts in them, seems like good quaility stuff.

Of the smaller tips, the brand I have been most impressed with are the Wiha tools that Schumacher (used to?) distribute. Pretty cheap too.

Wiha is a proper tool brand, not cheaply machined drill blanks in a bling handle.

wooohooo my B44 and B4 are in about 20 pieces... now i can put them back together with my broken 1/16 driver :thumbdown:

My day isnt going too well :(

what takes 1/16 on the b4 dude

tell me where im wrong- top off my head b4s at home so cant check but....

1.5 bulkhead - front bumper -wing- shock tower location- rear bumper top and bottom (could be wrong on the last)
3/36 top plate front tower -rear tower U plate- -top plate- gear box cover- gear box cassing shock wishbone location

2mm- anti squat - t plate- motor screws

0.5 hing pin holders

You stupid Jeb-end...... :lol:

G

Milzy i think my car uses imperial screws...... Unless you've made a metric :woot:car.. isnt 1.5 the pinion size :confused:

Ben

Why don't we move away from 1/16 allen ????? It's too small

It seems like FH screws at the bottom of b4 & b44 can be replaced by 5/64.

Also, it has the great advantage to be equal to 2mm, the most used size on metric cars :thumbsup: