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Re: Your most used tool?
Thin stainless steel table knife. Just right for slipping under door boot spring wires and other narrow spaces. Also piece of wood about 2cm sq x 25cm long. Ideal for holding machine off floor while you adjust feet. And waterpump pliers. And long surgeons’ forceps. And reading glasses. And felt pen. I could go on and on. But if I just answered the question it would be my Bosch Lithium 7.2v screwdriver.
Mike.Re: Your most used tool?
lee8 wrote:You should go into politics.
Pays more than this trade that’s for sure and the only tool they need to carry is an extractor.
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The tool I use on every job is probably me torch 8)
I’d agree that the (illegal) neon screw-driver is the most useful. I order them 10 at a time tho…
“Should I get up off me knees and get me proper flat screw-driver, or just try prising this with this neon?”
SNAP!!! 😆
Re: Your most used tool?
Goatboy wrote:The tool I use on every job is probably me torch 8)
I’d agree that the (illegal) neon screw-driver is the most useful. I order them 10 at a time tho…
“Should I get up off me knees and get me proper flat screw-driver, or just try prising this with this neon?”
SNAP!!! 😆
what exactly do you do with a neon screwdriver? (aside from prising stuff which a normal screwdriver would do) not used one since I was a schoolboy.
Re: Your most used tool?
If the neon screw-driver is there in your hand, why get up or lean over to the tool box for the correct tool? ie, flat screw-driver, possi driver, or some torx screws. And if it snaps, dim-dums!
Either that or I just tend to lose them real easy. I don’t go through that many, maybe 1 a week?
It’s always in my hand tho, because I see the neon as a dissposable tool, so it gets all the crap jobs. Poking things, poking crud out of things, anything you wouldn’t use your fingers or a decent tool for 😉
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Is a neon screwdriver better in some way than a red led screwdriver (transparent blue plastic) from poundland? Or are they just too sensitive? And what is “illegal” and why?
Mike.Re: Your most used tool?
lee8 wrote:You all should have mentioned at least your crimping tool. 😆
Crimping Tool? Don’t hairdressers use those things? 😆
Re: Your most used tool?
After snapping many a neon, I asked for a ‘good quality’ neon at the tool-shop. The guy working there told me…
You can’t get a good un, coz der illegal init!
Probably something to do with live testing? :hmm:
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I would never use a neon because when I was serving my time I seen an electrician using one and the resistor failed and threw him on his back. If your using them for the other 100 jobs afore mentioned the risks are probably higher. Get your meter out you lazy sods.
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