What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?

[bobokines]

Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?

Martin wrote: a short length of pressure tubing. 8)

Same technique, only instead of a magnet, stick the other end of the pressure tubing in the vacuum cleaner nozzle and use the suction to get hold of the object.

I live on the coast and I quite often get small beach pebbles stuck in the front plate. This method has worked for me on several occasions.

Bob

[Martin]

Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?

Had a bit of a problem opening the door of an integrated Indesit heap of junk last week. WM12X in fact where the customer had broken the door handle. Straightforward enough I thought at first as all I needed to do was drag the machine out, lift the lid, poke the door striker out from the Interlock and viola! 😉

Trouble was I couldn’t get the machine out as some dogsbreath herbert had cemented the feet under self-leveling compound and the rear feet were stuck fast! 😡 😯

Smashing the outer door trim was hardly a professional option and the customer had poked no end of screwdrivers and bits of wire trying the ‘DIY route’ scratching the cabinet to hell and all to no avail.

💡

Using a length of thin nylon cord (from an old venetian blind I dumped long ago). I poked the nylon cord between the door and cabinet, holding both ends top and bottom of the door. Dragged the cord right to left ’til it snagged the metal door probe. A sharp tug and BINGO!

Well at least I was able to replace the door handle, but if anything else fails on that particular machine, I for one won’t be calling back without hiring a kango hammer first!!!!! 😆

[SimonCD]

Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?

that is a bloomin good idea! im off home to wreck my blinds…

[Martin]

Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?

Bosch SGS5312 d/w drain blocked somewhere from one/way valve to sink coupling?

Removed one way flap valve and disconnected drain hose coupling under sink. Got out my secret weapon………… 😯

…”out of my way lady….hide under the stairs if you wish, I’ll call you when the jobs done!”

Pumped it up 15 times and pulled the trigger!!!…………..SPLOOSH!!!!

……out pops a scrunched up plastic food wrapper from the drain/fill matrix 😉

“It’s just my job, it’s what I do! Call me some other time you get a problem, you’ve got my number!” 8)

[goosegreen]

Re: What is the most useful tool in your toolbox?

See, Martin I told every one about The pango ages ago would they listen? 😆 Just yesterday had a Servis integrated blocked outlet hose, Did,t have a lot of time so Pangoed from the waste end of the hose with the filter out, put a bowl in front of of the filter and jobs a good un! as they say up north 🙂

Goose

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