What is a CR-VPH2 screwdriver bit

This is CR-VPH2 which I think stands for Craftsmen V Philips #2. I think that the V refers to the length of the shaft.

I have a Craftsman screwdriver tool which uses this sort of bit. Six are held in the handle, and one in the center shaft, driving position. To change bits, one pulls out the center, active bit, and stuffed it under one of the other bits you wish to use, forcing it out of its hole so that you can put it into drive position. It is a very nice way to carry seven bits together without losing them.

The only bad thing is that it has only two Robertson (square-drive) bits, which is what I need, and they are only sizes CR-VS2 and CR-VS4. As you might have guessed, the size I most often encounter is VS3.

All I know is that I put all of my some oddly bought or came across, collection of #2 and #3 bits together. I gathered a pretty good variety of different types of screws I could get together. Sheet rock coarse thread for wood, fine thread for 25 gauge metal, cutter screws for 18 gauge steel studs and different different sizes #6,#8 and you know. Sex bolt screws, wooden and metal commercial door hardware and closers, wooden timber sills, a variety of anchors for walls, brick etc., auto trim, square head wood screws, sheet metal, AC, plumbing, electrical,………. You get the picture.

E Z Power #2 and CR-V PH2 and PH3, pretty much came out on top about, 85-90 percent of the time with Ryobi, DeWalt, Milwaukee, in that order, filling in the gaps.

Using vice grips to hold the bit and “feel” how tight the bit feels in each screw. Slippage and difficulty of drilling and pushing in, to hold the screws while being torqued up.

Experience counts, no matter how you get it, even from someone else.