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Active Member 38 posts RCarignan Active Member 38 posts
RCarignan

I had to chuckle reading Dave Dexter's tip for using poster putty to hold little screws. We've been using that trick for years where I work, but with wax.

I'm a surgical technologist working in a hospital's O.R. The screws we use for cranial and jaw fixation are very small: they have a 2 to 3.0mm head and length from 1mm and up. We often use sterile bone wax ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_wax) to hold troublesome screws on the screwdrivers.

 

Rob Carignan

Portland, Maine
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Ghost Train Regular poster 228 posts
Ghost Train

I have done this with...

with candle wax and a few other misc. products at hand, at the time.

Also, I have saved some of the magnets from old hard drives to magnetize screw drivers for putting in steel screws. 

Your method would certainly work well for non magnetic screws.

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