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Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
Another priceless ‘must have’ tool in the van is my (don’t laugh now) Bosch Syringe. In case you really don’t know what I’m on about, it’s a bit like a huge hyperdermic syringe used for ‘sucking’ water and crud from hard to access places. (I said…don’t laugh, I’m being serious!)
(E.g. Sucking all the water out of a dishwasher tub sump to access the pump impellor. Pumping warm water through air pressure chambers to clear blockages without the need to remove chamber. (Brilliant for flushing clear Zanussi Manifolds) Clearing soap blocked fabric conditioner spray nozzles. Plus hundreds of other time saving uses.)They are still available from Bosch for around a tenner, the part number is: 340007.
Martin
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😛 Have to agree with you martin.After many years with bosch this was one item i had to keep when i left.Had some strange looks when it finally died and tried a chemist for a new one.
Can i have the largest syringe you stock please?The look on the assistants face left nothing to the imadgination.The icing on the cake was when i said i think i’ll take four while i’m here!Happy syringing!!!!!
Pinky
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PINKY wrote:The icing on the cake was when i said i think i’ll take four while i’m here!
Oh! can you get large syringes like the Bosch one from a chemist shop then Pinky? Never thought of going to a Chemists, wonder if they are any cheaper?
Martin
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:roll:£4 each if memory serves me right.not quite as big as the bosch ones[which always seem to be out of stock.begs the question what goes on at milton keynes?]all the same,they clear zanussi among other pressure chambers just fine.
I do find however customers can give you a worried look.
(i have found that filled full of water they can deter the customers pet dog from sniffing your backside almost as well as a megger! 💡Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
PINKY wrote:i have found that filled full of water they can deter the customers pet dog from sniffing your backside almost as well as a megger! 💡
Try both, a wet dog then the megger 😀
Dave.
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PINKY wrote:i have found that filled full of water they can deter the customers pet dog from sniffing your backside almost as well as a megger!
Priceless knowledge indeed. Of course the Bosch Syringe can be adapted to fitting a short length of Inlet Valve/Dispenser type hose on it, and with its large water carrying capacity can blast clear blocked Bosch SMS and SGS series (Hotpoint also of course) water level systems!
Martin
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Dave_Conway wrote:Try both, a wet dog then the megger
No! no! guys, thats far too cruel and fiddly.
Just pre-charge a small (say 8mf) capacitor with your megger!
Neat, simple, easy to carry and also very effective on moggies!
Money back guaranteed method…trust me!
Martin
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Pocket Mains ‘Sniffer’ to double check the power is off!
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14″ kebab skewer with hooked end for getting to those difficult bra wires (customer,”and what does that bit of wire do?”). Also useful for Hpt condenser drier doors and w/d condensers.
TonyRe: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
No! no! guys, thats far too cruel and fiddly.
Just pre-charge a small (say 8mf) capacitor with your megger!
Neat, simple, easy to carry and also very effective on moggies!
Money back guaranteed method…trust me!
wire up 2 meggers in series and zap the mutt…
at college we were made to stand in a circle holding hands whilst we all got zapped with the old wind-up meggers
Megger? I fell off the plastic bucket in a phyisics lesson while attached to the Van De Graff Generator (Also great band by the way) MANY years ago and managed to blow up most of the class in the process. Happy days ……
The other great way to get zapped was the changing the old Bendix door lock, which was wired to the capacitor. A mistake I only made once – Thank God.
Favourite tool I used to use regularly was a specially bent up piece of piano wire for winding up the snail drive clamp band on the old Philco Bendix machines. Don’t see many about now though.
Regards,
Penguin.Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?
Magnet on a flexy rod about 2ft long. Perfect for retrieving the nut and washer you dropped inside the machines cabinet.
Martin
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Mouse trap… works on children, adults (who do not wear shoes), dogs, cats, and me if iam not carefull. Carpet for moving range cookers, and a fluffer for removing cobwebs, especialy as we now have to pay a tax on cobwebs… 😈 😳
Otherwise the usual bits and bobs a small and large chisel instead of screwdivers these can be converted into leavers for prizing the built in stuff out, and removing the odd bits of modern built in units that get in the way. A good convertable Ixo and various angled bits and bobs for ooodling and removing.
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Oldtog wrote: and a fluffer for removing cobwebs, especialy as we now have to pay a tax on cobwebs… 😈 😳 twisted: 😈 😈
Thanks for your contribution, boy! have you got a great Toolkit.
I love those TV adverts of the two 118-118 guys in running gear,black wigs and moustaches. What’s their slogan now?….Oh yes I remember….”GOT YOUR NUMBER!”
Martin
David Moorcroft has issued proceedings against those two for breech of personal copyright (probably a posh way of saying “Taking the p;ss”).
What’s the obsession with cobwebs about then, Oldtog? I’ve been a Terry Tog for years but don’t recall anything about cobwebs??
Anyway, great toolkits all contain a Wosser, a Doofer and several Widgets, not to mention the legendary Oojimiflip. And probably some Doodads as well.
All probably ideal for sorting out the problem with the left hand flugelhorn extension tube clutch assembly which is stopping the machine from spinning ……
I keep a chopstick in my tool box. Doesn’t do anything, but the customers wonder!
Regards,
Penguin.
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