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“Why ought to I spend cash on costly screwdrivers when a budget ones look the identical? Aren’t all screwdrivers the identical?”
Put merely, no, they don’t seem to be all the identical, and I’ve a very good instance of why it is essential to have respectable instruments, particularly should you’re within the job of repairing different folks’s devices.
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Holding the propellers on the DJI Mini 3 Professional drone are some actually tiny screws. Not solely are they tiny, however they have been glued in place utilizing a threadlocker compound to stop the screws vibrating unfastened and the rotors flying off in flight — one thing that may have disastrous penalties for the drone.
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And these screws are infamous.
Drone teams and boards are stuffed with tales of woe the place folks have chewed up these screws when making an attempt to take away them. And as soon as they’re broken, getting them off turns into an much more foreboding venture.
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Plainly even the screwdriver provided with the drone is not as much as the job.
I’ve a Mini 3 Professional drone, and it wants the props modified. So, I made a decision to see simply how simple it’s to get them off — or how simple it’s to make a multitude getting them off.
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First I attempted the provided screwdriver, and simply as I suspected, it did not match appropriately in any respect.
The provided screwdriver would not match the screw appropriately
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Worse nonetheless, the screwdriver truly broken the screw, chewing off a number of the steel, which isn’t good in any respect!
The screwdriver truly broken the pinnacle of the screw (discover the place the black paint has been eliminated), which isn’t good!
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I am not going to be utilizing that screwdriver once more, that is for certain.
Thankfully, I’ve acquired a couple of respectable screwdrivers. For instance, I’ve acquired this superior Lifegoo mini electrical screwdriver. This screwdriver bit match the tiny propeller screw completely!
This screwdriver match completely!
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The standard distinction between the screwdriver that DJI shipped with the drone and the Lifegoo screwdriver bit is simple to see. The provided screwdriver bit head is tough and badly machined.
However this Lifegoo screwdriver bit is so good it had no downside eradicating the fastener that I broken with the provided screwdriver.
The inferior provided screwdriver (proper) in comparison with the precision bit from the Lifegoo mini electrical screwdriver set
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I additionally tried my favourite screwdriver set of all — the iFixit Professional Tech Toolkit — and as I anticipated, this equipment additionally has a screwdriver bit that fitted completely. This set has been used rather a lot over the previous few years and continues to be like new.
The iFixit Professional Tech Toolkit is one other nice toolkit, with screwdrivers you may depend on
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In case you’re within the enterprise of repairing different folks’s devices, you actually need to have good screwdrivers. You possibly can’t be inflicting extra harm when making an attempt to restore one thing. I’ve needed to observe within the footsteps of somebody who’d beforehand used poor high quality instruments, and the quantity of additional time it takes to do a job is staggering.
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For instance, I’ve spent a very good half-hour eradicating a tiny screw holding down the motherboard in an iPhone that had been beforehand broken by a “restore individual” who’d given the iPhone again to the proprietor in a worse state than it was in to start out with.
This kind of factor is unacceptable.
Save your self loads of complications — and embarrassment — and get your self respectable instruments.