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| 17th September 2006 02:37 PM | |||
| Ilan |
RE: Tiki tool 
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| 2nd September 2006 01:40 PM | |||
| Ian Fox |
RE: Tiki tool [ Sidebar : New 2007 TT boards feature new ovalised shape screw hole in deck - allows more user friendly, practical access to recessed TT screw (bolt) from deckside... Innovation ] |
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| 2nd September 2006 06:02 AM | |||
| Roger |
RE: Tiki tool Hi Phill104, Sorry Phill, the austenitic stainless screws used on starboards aren't magnetic as that would limit their corrosion (rust) resisitance. Wave a magnet over your footstrap and fin screw "stash" and if the magnet picks up any of the screws you can be sure they are martenisitic stainless with a lot more iron in the material make up. The martensitic stainless can be heat treated and is magnetic, there fore it rusts. Austenitic stainless has far less iron, in "non-magnetic", normally cannot be heat treated (except exotics like 17-4PH) so it's softer, but it does not rust at all. So, a magnetic screwdriver would really not help. Look for A Fabory P/N U2063.003.350 (#3-150mm Phillips) Chrom-Vanadiam screwdriver (Swiss made) with a heat treated tip with the correct geometry and the right finish to make your footstrap and fin screws last forever and be easy to retrieve from the fin screw counterbores if you only use the Fabory #3 screwdriver so you don't screw up the drive recesses in your screws. Gedore (Germany) also makes some really top quality screwdrivers but I don't have the part numbers. Spend the money for a top quality tool, take care of it buy frequently applying a good rust preventative like TC-11 and your footstrap and fin screws will last the life of your board. Hope this helps, |
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| 2nd September 2006 03:37 AM | |||
| Phill104 |
RE: Tiki tool One thing that would make the Tiki Tool better would be if it was magnetized. That would make it a lot easier to get the screws out of the holes |
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| 2nd September 2006 03:01 AM | |||
| Ilan |
RE: Tiki tool Geo, a power tool's point is not breaking with a much larger handle then the Tiki Tool, so this is not a good excuse. You just get what you pay for. Mine is not breaking, just rusting away. |
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| 1st September 2006 05:09 PM | |||
| geo |
RE: Tiki tool My first Tiki tool lost some bits of metal from the point as soon as I used it for putting the straps on my Sonic. I got another Tiki tool with my Evo, which I will not use until the other one is still somewhat working. IMHO it is much easier and safer to use a Tiki tool than a power screwdriver. Only problem, the concept derives by faulty engineering. A "normal" screwdriver has a handle dimensioned in a way that it is difficult to drive more torque than what the point can handle. In the Tiki tool the handle makes it easy to drive a huge amount of torque, but evidently the point just can't handle it. It would need a very, very hard and resilient metal in the point to make it really good, and then probably the shaft would became the problem. I guess in the end a "properly working" Tiki tool would be a rather expensive tool. Anyhow, it is a very good start in the direction of providing an universal tool to set up a board with, and once again one has to compliment Starboard for the (however useful) innovation. |
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| 27th August 2006 01:02 AM | |||
| Ola_H |
RE: Tiki tool Quote:
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| 25th August 2006 05:39 PM | |||
| Screamer |
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| 24th August 2006 10:02 PM | |||
| RodB |
RE: Tiki tool Not sure what's happened to the quality of the tiki tool. I've got one from Nov last year thats fine, but the 3 i've got this year just broke after movin a few footstraps. Is it possible to get replacements that won't break? 
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| 22nd August 2006 03:58 AM | |||
| Duracell |
RE: Tiki tool HaHa, my "dealer" asked me how long it lasted (2 days?). Seem slike he definitely knows the problem, I don't think I'll be getting a replacement, still have 2 more to break. |
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