DIY Pin-face Screw Tool (01) - a photo on Flickriver

            The dreaded Pin-face Screw. 

Present on many a vintage camera and often in sight so any scratch made on it is painly visible :-(

First choice to remove it would be of course a friction tool. i.e. Something made from rubber.

However, sometimes, like with this screw of a Rollei 35B, there is more force needed then can be transfered by a rubber tool. So what to do next ?

Of course one could get a nice professional and foremost expensive tool from shops like i.e. Microt__ls but now we live in a time of financial crisis and, besides that, i need to save money for a new nice cool MF filmscanner.

In the past i also used fine tipped spanners and compasser needles etcetera etc. but never felt very comfortable about it. 
First of all the shape of such a spanner. It's tapered to the point so the bulk of the force while turning will go to the upper outer edge of the pinhole and easily could deform that, more over a turning force will also result in a force upwards out of the pinhole. 
Secondly it is hard to apply equal downward force to both points so it could easily happen that one side flips out of the pinhole and makes a nasty scratch on the screw face. Oughh !

So guess only save and cheap option is to make myself a DIY Pin-face Screw Tool :-)

Taken on: June 9, 2012

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