William Sommerwerck wrote:
Unfortunately, I was in a bit of a hurry to assemble things
this morning and made the mistake of using a cheap Chinese
screw driver instead of a decent rubber cushioned Klein.

Home Despot often has cordless electric drills/drivers for around $20.

Every try driving slotted screws with a power drive?

The shelves are assembled with 67 1/4-20 truss head screws.
About 7/16" diameter and almost NO depth to the slot. This
requires a screwdriver blade at least 3/8" wide to properly
tighten.

This basically means "use hand tools". The problem was in
using a screwdriver with an under sized handle diameter
for the torque required and that had almost sharp edges
to the flutes put in the handle for "added grip".

On tool handles: Over the years, for bench work, I've
come to the conclusion that Xcelite has some of the
nicest feeling screwdriver handles. For construction
it's Klein. Sears Craftsman screwdrivers are nice, but
I still prefer the feel of the Xcelite tools. The cheap
black and yellow Stanley "home" tools are only slightly
better than the Chinese palm-eater that got me yesterday.
Although Stanley has the "looks like Klein" cushioned
handles on the good screwdrivers you can buy after you
decided that the money you saved on the cheap ones wasn't
worth it.

Oh, and I did throw the cheap piece of crap screwdriver
in the trash so I don't make the same mistake twice.

Jeff