A magnetic screwdriver is an invaluable tool when draining carbs on your bike. It will prevent the necessity of using your fingers to dig about gasoline soaked surfaces in the gloom of an unlit garage in December, trying for the 4th time to find the tiny bolt that has again fallen into the bowels of your engine, while trying to replace it blind, from a virtually impossible angle.
Urgh.
Good way to catch frost bite, that.
Gasoline stays, as you all know, a liquid far below freezing, but maintains it’s high heat
(cold) transfer.
You can really hurt yourself fast with seriously sub-freezing gas.
Don’t ask how I know.
It’s why I did the long-overdue winterization thing today – it was well above freezing. The deepfreeze is coming on on the heels of 80 kph winds tonight, or so we are being warned.
i bought one of those telescoping super magnets for just such an occasion on my jeep. then my three-year-old niece came for a visit, and wouldn’t let go of the thing. who can look into a niece’s eyes and say, “but, i actually NEED it!?!”. gravity always wins, as they say.
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It’s kinda late (probably) but if you can find any free magnets around, just slap them to the shaft of the screwdriver- instant magnetized screwdriver.