Is there some company out there making non-conductive screwdrivers designed for electrical work? I can understand that maybe the materials science to make strong plastic screwdrivers didn't exist in the 1950s, but surely they exist today, right?
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I've seen other fun specialized types of screwdrivers in my career:
Screwdrivers with conductive plastic in the handle, to deal with ESD requirements in the spacecraft industry. Alternatively, take a normal plastic screwdriver handle and wrap it in copper tape.
Beryllium screwdrivers (non-ferrous) for use around MRI machine bores thanks to the insane magnetic fields. You also have to wear ceramic hard-toed shoes.
For example, it is used in spacecraft to save weight over aluminum. When I worked with MRI machines, we used FETs with beryllium oxide ceramic (BeO) backing. BeO is an amazing thermal conductor, electrical insulator (only diamond is better).
Also, it's used in dental alloys. It seems it's only toxic if you inhale its dust.
Fun fact: Your body has no way to remove it from your body, so you accumulate it forever.
I'd guess anyone working on an MRI machine is wearing gloves anyway for other reasons.
Unfortunately tons of people were exposed before the risks were at all understood and the health effects can be pretty bad.
It's fine to machine as long as you're making actual chips (how do you think they make all those tools for the oil industry).
Yeah, CNC + coolant is how you'd do it if you're making the tool.
If you're making a custom tool from a broken tool you have lying around then you use the Bridgeport and Intern method.