That is a pet peeve of mine also. We ran into that with assembly line people. Mostly small hardware. They got trained to never start the screw with the driver. After a week, they were starting it with the driver. Took the driver away.

I've had to be a real butt head at Discount Tire. Explaining to the kid that one twist of his hand on a lug nut is a quarter turn. So if he does it four times it's not enough before hitting it with the impact. I finally gave up and don't watch anymore. Those are fine threads, easy to cross. With an impact, you don't know it.

When I'm working on truck bolts, I only use my impacts for removal. (except lug nuts). I remove and install small hardware (phillips) with my driver after starting threads by hand or manual screw driver.


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