Computer toolkit recommendation?

[MidiGuy]

I'm looking for a small computer toolkit. Something alond the lines of the Belkin 11-piece kit. Does anyone have any other recommendations on what kit to get and where to get it? I've just ordered all the essential parts for my new system!

Thanks!

-Midi

 

[Rahminator]

You can do it all with a phillips and a flat head screwdriver, and pliers might be useful too.

 

[MidiGuy]

Well, I know I CAN, but.....😀

 

[Rahminator]

So why waste more money on stuff you'd most likely never use? Everybody has screwdrivers and pliers laying around somewhere so you don't need to waste a penny. If you do run into a problem and you have to use some special tool, go ahead and buy a toolkit, but don't do it beforehand.

Just my $0.02 and nobody has to listen to me 🙂.

 

[MidiGuy]

The toolkits do have demagnitized screwdrivers, although I've used others, and maybe even magnetic-tiped screwdrivers! Does the demagnitization matter?

 

[John]

<< The toolkits do have demagnitized screwdrivers, although I've used others, and maybe even magnetic-tiped screwdrivers! Does the demagnitization matter? >>



I use a slightly magnetized Phillips and flathead screwdriver. Never had a problem, and if anything it makes life easier.

 

[Rahminator]

I've been using regular screw drivers around computers for a long time and it was never an issue.

 

[ThatDumbGuy]

My computer toolkit, which I keep under the stand my tower sits on...

A Cordless Rechargeable Black&Decker Power Screwdriver with a #2 phillips head and magnetic extension.

AND

A pair of needle nose pliars.


Never needed any other tools that I can remember. Sometimes I think I would stop building/working on computers w/out that B&D. Gotten spoiled. I even have the power cord running under there so it can charge(if i put it anywhere else I lose it!)