{"id":4770,"date":"2020-03-05T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2020-03-05T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T11:00:52","slug":"tool-review-hyper-tough-slotted-screwdriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/05\/tool-review-hyper-tough-slotted-screwdriver\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool Review: Hyper Tough Slotted Screwdriver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might be the cheapest tool review I&#8217;ve ever done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4787\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020_03_05_01.jpg\" alt=\"2020_03_05_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Any mechanic will tell you that screwdrivers aren&#8217;t just used for turning screws. They get used as prybars, chisels, punches, box openers, almost anything except driving screws. Because of this, I didn&#8217;t really want to abuse my Snap On screwdrivers, and went to Walmart to find something cheap. I ended up with this Hyper Tough slotted screwdriver, which at the time only cost somewhere around 65 cents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4788\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020_03_05_02.jpg\" alt=\"2020_03_05_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put this screwdriver through the ringer, beating on it for all kinds of things. My first one actually broke the handle while a coworker used it as a prybar, so I bought two so I&#8217;d have a spare. Over three years later, I hadn&#8217;t broken the second one, so I left my spare at the shop&#8217;s tire balancer for removing wheel weights after a different cheap screwdriver had broken. When that one vanished, I stopped by Walmart and was surprised to find that they still sold the exact same screwdriver, though it&#8217;s now close to a dollar.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a cheap screwdriver for general usage, or specifically one for taking abuse, I would highly recommend this one.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCasCW0ImD3UuLeMu5RAZCXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Mechanical Malarkey on YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might be the cheapest tool review I&#8217;ve ever done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tool-review","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}