Why our Screwdriver took 3 YEARS

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Never would I have imagined that I would spend 30 minutes of my life watching a video about a screwdriver, and actually enjoy myself lol

As a mechanical engineer I think it’s great that you are introducing so many people to the product development process, really great stuff

As a manufacturing technician, I'm very happy that you introduced a large amount of people into the manufacturing sciences and processes that go on behind the scenes. We need more youth injected into this space as both technicians and operators are aging work forces! You can make good money in these fields ppl!

I got mine just a few days ago. It is a WELL designed driver and I'm very pleased with the build quality. Sweating all the little details really shows in the final product. Congrats to the LTT team, Mega Pro, and all the folks involved in the manufacturing process.

I wish more companies in general were this transparent about the production of their products. Maybe they are and I just haven't looked hard enough. Just imagine the quality you'd get over time if companies made videos like this. It's basically a win win for the companies that build great products and consumers that want the truth.

I gotta say this is basically an extremely effective advertisement; I wish approaches like this were common in marketing

As a geek squad installer your screwdriver is wonderful. I have used it everyday to help me get mounts on the back of TV's it feels a lot better to use then my powered one because I'm less likely to strip or misthread the screws thank you.

As a plastic injection quality engineer, this video was fun to watch. The attention to detail and perfect combination of relentlessly pursuing theoretical perfection against the backdrop of what is actually possible in a manufacturing process and making the necessary compromises was especially delightful. He even showed us where the gate and parting lines were, which can be huge issues. Kudos for all the energy you put in making a good product. I didn't even know I needed a driver this bad.

I work at a computer repair shop and we'll all gladly be buying one, and writing it off as a work expense!

You forget to mention the ratchet is so satisfying to turn around that the screwdriver doubles as a fidget toy 😌

Hermann from Megapro is an amazing person and my ears came to attention when I heard "Megapro" and I knew how it was possible for LTT to continue this product. I purchased one of his first Parasol products which was a game changer in the concert lighting industry.

Your team has accumulated the sort of knowledge/experience that many big companies spend millions for. Make good use of it and be prepared to pay for it. Next up? How about a better sprue clipper?

I used to work in hardened steel tool and die; when linus says it's difficult to machine, picture this: we had ultrahard carbide tooling, as hard as sapphire, with coatings on it to make it shed heat, wear evenly and not pick up chips of metal, that were themselves made up of ultrahard metal composites. The tools were about 50-200 dollars CAD each. They had an expected lifetime of about 10-20 minutes each when cleaning up post-hardening steel. We had specially designed drillbit heads because our carbide supplier considered what we were doing was nuts and didn't support it in their stock lineup. They were good for, if we were extremely careful, about 2-10 holes each depending on the depth. This is steel that is so hard, that you could take the hardest, meanest file you could find, run it down a corner, and kill the file in about three strokes without leaving a mark. This stuff is *evil*, and in a completely different world to aluminum, and is still not the wildest thing we use in the tool and die world; there's a type of steel that is usually found on the bottom edge of grader and snowplow blades. We don't... actually have a way to do detailed machining on it without EDM. Not 'suboptimal', there's literally only a few drills in our arsenal that could touch it. It was used in giant square blocks when it WAS used, for extreme wear points. Superalloys are wild.

I would trust so many other manufacturers of they explained everything and take you to the factory to see how it's made. Big respect Linus and the team

it was VERY fascinating to see the whole process, especially seeing how the individual pieces changed during it's development

this was cool, thanks for showing us the process.

Two things. First Linus was wearing the earplugs backwards. The round part goes into the ears. Second LTT should sell the dropped screwdrivers as a limited edition certified "Officially dropped by Linus" LTT Screwdriver!

To be honest, I first started watching this thinking "why on Earth would I need to get a LTT designed screwdriver when I have a lot of screwdrivers that do what I need", and I did also think along the lines of what you said at the end about "not being tool makers". As the video progressed and I could see just how much of a perfectionist approach Linus took to the design of this which promptly changed my thought to "this is going to be a worthy purchase". The one that got me was your Ninja star to allow compatibility with standard sized bits. The fact you aren't just limiting your tool to your own bits says a lot in my opinion.

Only LTT could make a production line this much fun and educative. 🎉 Thank you LTT TEAM!