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Installing Grub Screws
« on: September 16, 2025, 02:32:25 pm »
With fat shaky fingers it is always a challenge to start grub screws so I came up with the idea of a short length of rubber tubing on the end of the screwdriver:

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Re: Installing Grub Screws
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2025, 04:19:43 pm »
Seems a brilliant solution, Frank!

I have a special "grabber" tool for such things, but it is far from fool-proof, as this fool has proven time and again.
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Re: Installing Grub Screws
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2025, 07:45:47 pm »
Clever!
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