[captainclock1988]

Well,

Sooner or later you will have a hot trimmer. Philcos have a few. So it is better to have one tool rather than two.
Also, however small that could be, there is a capacitance between the shaft and the chassis and it is connected in parallel to your trimmer/padder. It might affect it little or more than that. Considering trimmers are small in the first place, even an extra pF or two can throw the alignment off.

One single wish I have is to have the tool with thin walls so it could fit through smaller openings. I had more than one case where either of two tools (one from Steve, one I bought on eBay from another vendor before) didn't fit through. My hot-formed ball pen tube did, so using a good material of the same thickness it is possible to make an actual slim tool.

And I did address the issue with the hot trimmers that were on my 116B, which was to just wrap the screwdriver shaft with electrical tape up to the screwdriver tip, so that was the screw driver didn't have a chance of arcing against the IF Transformer's metal housing.

The nut driver I posted a picture of is just small enough to fit into the holes for the RF, Oscillatorm and Antenna adjustment openings and not touch the sides of the openings when turning the adjustment nuts, even the Wave Trap Filter adjustment and 2nd IF tertiary transformer adjustment, and the 1st IF primary and secondary transformer adjustment openings are a perfect fit for the nut driver I pictured.

I can definitely appreciate the concerns though and I definitely thought about trying to get a set of diddle sticks online but they cost way more than I'm willing to or am able to spend on something like that.