Want to Buy WTB: spanner w/interchangeable tips, JIS and flat head drivers for camera/lens

WTB: a quality spanner wrench that uses interchangeable tips for working with lenses and camera parts. I don't trust cheap tools that I see online- I'd like something that is well made and won't bend or break if used with some force.

Same with a small set of JIS screwdrivers- I read lots of comments here on photorio and elsewhere that many of the sets sold today are not really JIS or are not very good quality. So if you have a few to sell let me know.

Alternately please contact me by PM if you can recommend specific brands and sources, although I'd rather buy a used set from one of you guys here on phototrio than a new set elsewhere online.

Thanks,
Keith

keithostertag said:

Same with a small set of JIS screwdrivers- I read lots of comments here on photorio and elsewhere that many of the sets sold today are not really JIS or are not very good quality.

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Just received and used a set we got that was manufactured in Japan.. it worked very well to take apart my RB67
https://www.ebay.com/itm/124714475861

You might try Ihttps://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools

Vessel Precision screwdrivers: love them and they are from Japan...
https://vessel.co.jp/english/product/screwdriver_category/14

Many sellers on Ebay and Amazon.

As for the spanner, good luck. Most are real junk...

Moody tools has US made JIS screwdrivers. I bought mine direct, but there are various sources.
https://www.centraltools.com/moody-tools/?moody-redirect=1

For the spanner SK Grimes is the goto for a lot of people https://skgrimes.com/products/spanner-wrench/
Edmund Optics is another source, slightly less dear than Grimes https://www.edmundoptics.com/f/spanner-wrench/11612/

bdial said:

Edmund Optics is another source, slightly less dear than Grimes https://www.edmundoptics.com/f/spanner-wrench/11612/

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That appears to be the PRC-made Neewer wrench as sold on eBay for considerably less than $45. It's decent.

At the moment, the only one I'm aware with interchangeable tips of is by Japan Hobby Tool and sold in the USA by B&H.

I guess you could also ask Curt Fargo: Once upon a time, he sold such things, though it's been awhile. I may have purchased my tools as early as the 1980s or 1990s. Lens spanner is marked "Fargo Enterprises, Vacaville Calif USA". Screwdriver-style tool is unbranded.

You can convert metric Philips to JIS just by carefully filing the tips down a bit.

That said, I have the Vessel set and they are a good fit, but you should buy both long and the short shafted tools in the kits.

A Correction:
The full 0000,000,00,0 JIS short shaft set is YD-56S.

Because these are only 3/4" to maybe, 1", I still recommend the longer, black handled JIS cross headed versions, as part of a more complete kit that will allow some reach down into a small camera body

If you decide to buy new, non vessel flat head micro screwdrivers, you'll do no better than Wera, which have good steel and thinner blades than PBSwiss, or Wiha and you can get a range of metric and SAE flats that are in different shaft lengths and work well with with Hasselblad, Canon F cameras, Nikons and other cameras.

Cheers and Good Luck!

keithostertag said:

WTB: a quality spanner wrench that uses interchangeable tips for working with lenses and camera parts. I don't trust cheap tools that I see online- I'd like something that is well made and won't bend or break if used with some force.

Same with a small set of JIS screwdrivers- I read lots of comments here on photorio and elsewhere that many of the sets sold today are not really JIS or are not very good quality. So if you have a few to sell let me know.

Alternately please contact me by PM if you can recommend specific brands and sources, although I'd rather buy a used set from one of you guys here on phototrio than a new set elsewhere online.

Thanks,
Keith

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ThorLabs makes a high-quality spanner wrench that you should consider: https://www.thorlabs.com/thorproduct.cfm?partnumber=SPW801

It looks like a very nice tool but, the one thing about spanners that bothers me is the adjustment dial can move while in use.

My Calipers and micrometers all have locks, so why is there none for these tools.