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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 25 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 25 | My interior light bezel and my voltage regulator are put on with a funny looking screwdriver pattern....it looks like a small figure eight shape. My truck is a '51, and the parts are original. Today I started to take out some cabinets that was in a 1970's trailer house, and the same pattern is used! What is that "screwdriver" shape called?! THANKS!!!
Bernard Laiben
1951 3100 Chevy Deluxe Pick-up (original with 73,000 miles on a "straight Six" 216)
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 25 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 25 | I figured out that they are clutch head screws.....I'm going to search a local auto parts store that seems to have EVERYTHING, and if that doesn't work, I will go to a trailer shop.
Bernard Laiben
1951 3100 Chevy Deluxe Pick-up (original with 73,000 miles on a "straight Six" 216)
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 25 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 25 |
Bernard Laiben
1951 3100 Chevy Deluxe Pick-up (original with 73,000 miles on a "straight Six" 216)
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 25 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 25 | I feel dumb not knowing that!!! BUT, there is never a time to stop learning!
Bernard Laiben
1951 3100 Chevy Deluxe Pick-up (original with 73,000 miles on a "straight Six" 216)
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | Bernard,
You should not feel dumb about this. The answer might seem simple, but your question was not odd or stupid.
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,317 Former Workshop Owner | | Former Workshop Owner Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,317 | Hello Bernard,
NAPA sells them as well as a lot of the vintage parts stores (try Jim Carters). I found the best prices at swap meets from the people with the large tool displays. I really like the set of clutch head drive bits that I bought. They work real well with a hand impact for breaking loose rusted screws.
John | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 | I recently picked up a big honking one at a swap meet. I can't read without my glasses, but when I got home and looked at it with my glasses, it reads "Snap-on Octo-Grip SDC-13". It was available between 1950 and 1955. Paid $1.67 for it. How'd I do?
Last edited by 52Carl; 03/06/2014 1:42 AM.
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 178 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 178 | Bernard- I found mine on ebay, a set of 4 sizes for around $13.00 bucks. I found em at NAPA for more than $40 bucks. Even saw them at a swap meet for $12.00. Only places I couldn't find em was Ace, Home Despot and Lowes.
Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin
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