Stanley FatMax Speed Drive Ratcheting Screwdriver, FMHT62692-0

Stanley FatMax Speed Drive Ratcheting Screwdriver, FMHT62692-0

Stanley FMHT62692-0 is a ratcheting screwdriver from the FatMax range with the Speed Drive mechanism. It is 290 mm long, weighs 0.293 kg, and is built from chrome vanadium steel. Three double-ended bits are supplied.

What Speed Drive does

With an ordinary ratchet, driving is interrupted: you turn, bring your hand back, turn again. Speed Drive lets you twist the handle left and right without letting go - the mechanism turns both motions into progress down the screw. The effect is a 360° drive and work that is up to twice as fast over a run of screws.

The three zones of the handle

The handle is not one shape along its length - it has three zones with different jobs:

• Speed zone - the narrow part you spin with your fingers while the screw is still going in freely.
• Torque zone - the wide part you grip with the whole palm for the final tightening.
• Precision tactile zone - for fine work where feeling the resistance matters more than pushing through.

The coating is bi-material, which keeps the grip working with an oily hand.

Bit retention

The holder is locking and the tip is magnetic. Together they solve two different problems: the magnet holds the screw while you place it one-handed, and the lock holds the bit so it does not stay behind in the screw head when you pull the driver away.

Bits and storage

The set includes 3 double-ended bits, so six tips in all: PH1, PH2, PZ1, PZ2 and 4 mm and 5.5 mm slotted. They stow inside the handle - which in practice means the screwdriver always travels with its bits, and you never arrive on site holding a driver with nothing to put in it.

Who it is for

A ratcheting screwdriver is a tool for repetitive work - fitting ironmongery, wiring consumer units, assembling furniture, hinges and locks. Where there are twenty screws and more, each needing ten turns, the difference against a plain screwdriver adds up to real minutes. On one screw an ordinary screwdriver is just as good; on twenty, it no longer is. At 290 mm and under 300 grams this one sits between a pocket driver and a full carpenter's screwdriver: long enough to apply torque, light enough to live in the bag permanently.

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