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| carlsfootprints:
When I was still in college, I used nail cutter as my side cutter and wire stripper. Very handy and portable ;) |
| bitseeker:
--- Quote from: G0HZU on October 13, 2018, 12:06:45 pm ---I've used my Tek RSA3408A 8GHz real time spectrum analyser as a battery charger via the USB port a few times. http://www.testequipmenthq.com/datasheets/TEKTRONIX-RSA3408A-Datasheet.pdf I think you can buy cheaper and smaller battery chargers than the Tek but it does seem to work very well :) --- End quote --- That's wonderfully inappropriate. :-DD A prize should go to the person who does that with an Infiniium UXR 110 GHz oscilloscope. ;D |
| TERRA Operative:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on October 13, 2018, 12:29:08 pm ---I like to peel the wires with my teeth. --- End quote --- I used to do that as a child. Stripped some of the enamel off the top of my bottom front teeth. Now I got a sensitive spot right there. |
| SeanB:
120mm mains power fan works for me to defrost. Just use a wire to hold it in place ( it has guards front and rear) and it melts the ice quite fast, but not so fast that I cannot keep up with a old bath towel and a bucket. Another is I needed a small anvil, so use the 14lb sledge hammer as one, with the tiny little ball peen hammer to work the solid rivet I was making to the right shape. Made some rivet setting tools out of steel rod (old dot matrix printer parts)and made them so I could hold the flat end on the rivet and have the crown on the other side formed neatly, just used lighter force on a large hammer to get the right shape without deforming the base material too much. Solid rivets beat pop rivets when you can get to both sides for strength any day. |
| station240:
Using side cutters to grip the head of a completely stripped screws, from the side. Works as not only are you gripping the head, but slightly underneath it at well. Downside is not only due to damage/chip the cutting surface, but on one cheap set of side cutters, I managed to break one cutting part off entirely. |
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