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75mm, 32-Pc. Security Bit Set75mm, 32-Pc. Security Bit Set
Rated 4 Stars"An excellent value for the price." 2007-05-13
This 75-bit security set is a great value for the price. I bought it after running into a Phillips-like screw used to assemble a dining room chair, and thought I needed a medium torq set bit. Turns out that I needed a #2 pozidriv bit instead, which fortunately is also included.

The only drawback to these bits is that they are suitable for light to medium duty work only. After removing and reinstalling 10 pozidriv wood screws and 16 #2 phillips screws on two chairs, both bits showed definite signs of wear in the form of slight gouging of the flutes due to occasional slippage, even though I was using a torque limiting power screwdriver. This is a common problem with this type of bit, which is why special hardened bits are available elsewhere for the more commonly used ones (but not these specialty security bits).


CD-RW 40x Int. Drive KitCD-RW 40x Int. Drive Kit
Rated 2 Stars"Major incompatiblity problems" 2002-08-11
I tried to install this product twice on a Celeron 1.3GHz system with a VIA 686B chipset, running both Win98SE and WinXP Pro.

The first time, I thought I had bought a defective drive, which happens rarely. Using the most current version of the Roxio Easy-CD software that came with the drive, the drive would lock up the IDE bus whenever I attempted to write to a CD-RW. When this happened again after replacing it with a 2nd drive, I suspected something else was amiss. After some investigation, I tried turning off the DMA setting for the drive, and lo and behold, it worked! Performance was less than spectacular, but it would do.

The next day, I attempted to copy some tracks off of an audio CD, and when trying to read the tracks while running Win98SE, the system would lock up. On a hunch, I turned DMA back on, and it could now read the audio tracks.

I'm told this may be a problem only with VIA chipsets, but I haven't had this problem with other models, therefore I can't recommend it










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