tonype
Senior Member
- Location
- New Jersey
Cover screws
- Thread starter tonype
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- Location
- New Jersey
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- Journeyman Electrician
Spanner type tamper resistant. Need to figure out the spacing between the two holes and buy the appropriate tip.
tonype
Senior Member
- Location
- New Jersey
What is the most common area where this would be needed.
kbsparky
Senior Member
- Location
- Delmarva, USA
Public restrooms, high-traffic, high crime areas, etc.
- Location
- Massachusetts
I picked up this exact kit for about $19 and it has almost any tamper resistant tip out there, including 4 spanner types.
- Location
- Tennessee NEC:2017
- Occupation
- Semi-Retired Electrician
That sure beats trying to find a pair of needle nose pliers that will fit.
Does it have those little triange shaped bits that the kids video games all use? Trying to find a straight blade screwdriver just the right size to wedge in those triangles is getting old.
- Location
- Massachusetts
Harbor Freight?
I am sure they have it, I grabbed it as an impulse buy at a tool rental counter a lot of years ago.
Amazon is selling it for $12, I asked my wife to order one next time she buys stuff there. I am missing some of the tips at this point
- Location
- Massachusetts
Yes ............. but you often need a thin one to fit in the deep holes they have and by the time you put the tip in the holder it is too fat.
Amazon has some good pictures of it
- Location
- Illinois
- Occupation
- retired electrician
The inmates just heat up the end of their plastic toothbrush and push the soft plastic into the screw to make a tool to remove those screws.
The inmates just heat up the end of their plastic toothbrush and push the soft plastic into the screw to make a tool to remove those screws.
That would probably work better than the tools I've improvised
goldstar
Senior Member
- Location
- New Jersey
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
I have this tool. Works great.
http://www.tools-plus.com/cully-37011.html
BTW, the first time I had to use it was for work at the County Jail.
http://www.tools-plus.com/cully-37011.html
BTW, the first time I had to use it was for work at the County Jail.
The inmates just heat up the end of their plastic toothbrush and push the soft plastic into the screw to make a tool to remove those screws.
All they have is time to come up with solutions such as that.
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Occupation
- Retired Electrical Contractor
The last time I bought a kit with about 50 bits it cost me $6.00. Needless to say every bit I used lasted for one use. They were garbage. I threw almost 40 of them out.
hurk27
Senior Member
- Location
- Portage, Indiana NEC: 2008
we have them around here also at various railroad salvage places they are under the ITT tool name brand for about $5-$6 bucks for about 40 bits, I also found them to break easily and learned to not put much pressure on them, I used to have a name brand set from years ago, back then they were over $100.00 and you had to prove you were in an industry that needed them.
A quick Google came up with hundreds of places to buy them from:
Security bit set
Or Bing: security screw bit set
A quick Google came up with hundreds of places to buy them from:
Security bit set
Or Bing: security screw bit set
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- Location
- Simi Valley, CA
The inmates just heat up the end of their plastic toothbrush and push the soft plastic into the screw to make a tool to remove those screws.
And you know this, how?:?
paul
Senior Member
- Location
- Snohomish, WA
Well he did stop posting for awhile. :lol:
I was hired by a gc to replace all of the coverplate screws with spanner "tamper proof" screws in a council center for troubled youths. Problem is, he wanted me to put the plastic covers back on. :happysad: I say "they will just break the cover" he says "if you install stainless cover plates and they get one off, it can be used as a weapon" I say "that's what the tamper proof screws are for". He finally came around. I think he didn't want to spend the money on the stainless plates. Typical gc mentality.
- Location
- Illinois
- Occupation
- retired electrician
Illinois had a prison building and renovation spree a number of years ago. I think I worked in 5 of them, including the now closed Joliet prision. We did a lot of work in a number of them. One of our foreman spent more time there than a lot of inmates...he worked on various prison projects for about 7 years straight.
- Location
- Simi Valley, CA
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