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Jonny wrote:

Just what point are the Tamiya Screwdrivers

I think they're JIS as well, since they really grip the Tamiya (and other Japanes) screws...
Before I was always fooling around, trying to find the right size driver.
Can't locate the packaging to see if there's any real clues but for me the proof's in the pudding on these.

Wiki en.m.wikipedia....rew_drives

They don't show the symbol for JIS but the packages give a clue they're not Phillips :



More Frearson...



Edit - similar description here .

I can use Google & Wikipedia as well as the next person so I'm well aware of the differences between Phillips & JIS points (although Frearson is something again, at least an order of magnitude more obscure?) ... I'm just not clear what the Tamiya screwdrivers are - they don't use the JIS symbol & don't say one way nor the other, unless it's in Japanese - and I don't want to buy one & it turn out to be a Phillips point - which is what a lot of sellers list it as (or provide no information at all).

I'm thinking a JIS screwdriver would be more compatible with Phillips screws than an a Phillips driver is with JIS screws & perhaps that's where the sellers' are coming from. Tamiyas lack of information is just one of context - they assume that when they list a + screwdriver, medium, as being required in the manual that people will know they mean a JIS point, just as a UK weather forecast might cite a temperature of 16, and a US forecast 61, and assume the recipient will know they don't mean 16 Fahrenheit or 61 Celcius

Perso I still use my old red builder set After more than 50 nib kit and a lot of reparations or resto, they are still in forme

A proper indication in between all the Japanese.

Edou wrote:

A proper indication in between all the Japanese.

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Hooray!

I guess "M3 ~ M5" is the screw sizes it's recommended for (this is the "L" size driver? ), "HRC50" looks like a hardness rating

stingray-63 wrote:

Perso I still use my old red builder set After more than 50 nib kit and a lot of reparations or resto, they are still in forme

That says good things about the fit & quality

Jonny wrote:

I guess "M3 ~ M5" is the screw sizes it's recommended for (this is the "L" size driver? )

Yep, it's the large one. Package on the medium driver states M2-M2.6...

Now who knows Japanese to figure out what is says before "M3.5-M5" on the package?
On the other one "M2-M3" is printed there.

I think it might mean what sizes Phillips heads it is compatible with...