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Sagebrush posted:you mean Robertson, of course. in fact i’d argue square drive is meaningful to more people that “robertson” drive hence is better communication overall
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i thought of a socket set so theory destroyed
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echinopsis posted:if you knew exactly what I meant when I said it then “square drive” is effective communication yeah imo square drive can be this:  or this: 
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rotor posted:yeah imo square drive can be this: that’s the true square drive Jonny 290 posted:i thought of a socket set so theory destroyed 
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tk posted:Here’s my package opening load out. Wha. Just buy a Swiss army knife and put that stuff in a drawer.
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swiss army knives have the best nail scissors anywhere
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Buck Turgidson posted:Wha. Just buy a Swiss army knife and put that stuff in a drawer. I store that stuff in a drawer even without owning a Swiss Army knife!
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Sagebrush posted:you mean Robertson, of course.
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swiss army knives, man domain of 11 and 65 year old nerds everybody in between has better taste
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i have a leatherman  but i don't carry a multitool around usually. they're heavy and i don't actually need pliers and screwdrivers in my bag at all times. my "EDC" (as the kids say these days) is a rather nice little snap-on branded 2" folding knife that i got in the checkout line at autozone.
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this is somewhat far afield, but do any of you have a butt set? completely out of curiosity. i've only ever used them tangentially professionally with a telephone tech i was friendly with who taught me. no use case whatsoever for me
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Negatory, but it was funny when the centurylink guys came out and had to do provisioning for my fiber ONT by jamming a butt set into the PHONE jack of it and dialing a magic code you will probably not be surprised to learn this is my most frequently carried/used multitool 
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dioxazine posted:this is somewhat far afield, but do any of you have a butt set? i do, actually -- a fluke ts25d. my landlord, who used to be the head maintenance guy at one of the big sf housing projects, found it somewhere and gave it to me. the bed-of-nails alligator clips on the leads are insanely fancy and well made. i unscrewed them and attached banana plugs so i can use them in my multimeter. i have no idea what to use it for, because i haven't had a landline telephone in fifteen years.
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i believe the one he had was also a fluke! he would prank call executives from time to time with it from the telephony closet masquerading as a different extension
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when i was a teen i got a princess phone at the flea market, cut the connector off the end and alligator clipped it. i had a 300 foot roll of speaker wire that i put modular plugs on one end and alligators on the other, and i'd sneak out after sundown, pop a green box, hook the 'butt set' to a line pair and call ANI to to make sure it wasn't our phone line, then hook up and call long distance BBSes. when i was done i just gave the wire run a yank from the house, it'd pull the alligator clips off and the green box lid would drop closed.
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Fluke 77 is a hell of a multimeter that kicks rear end without costing as much as a car. My dad has a 77 mark 1, which is old enough to not have a single iota of yellow anywhere on it. Still works great. I've got a mark 4 and I'm pretty sure it will last the rest of my life and then some
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Jonny 290 posted:swiss army knives, man 
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I think they're neat plus no-one freaks out if you whip out a swiss army knife
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oh yeah, pulling out a 3" leatherman, that's gonna be the mineshaft canary that clues people in to the fact that i'm a weirdo
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i got one of those pocket sized hand tool rescue wrenches and its neat but also you can drill a hole in the bottom so the screw on it tightens down on a 1/4" hex bit and it works great imo 
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if the question is "why dont you just hold the bit in the jaws of the wrench" my response is "because the jaws dont stay real parallel and the bit slips sideways easily"
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Visited a house today my in-laws were looking at, owned by an old and extremely catholic couple (crucifixes in every room, pictures of the pope etc). In the basement they had a fun old school tool collection 
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tool tip: old files are made of good steel and should be repurposed, new files are just case hardened mild still and should not.
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i have a leatherman. its not a better knife than a knife but it has its uses.
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i will never have a tool room or sick garage setup because im a soy millenial rentcuck  
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in order to combine households with my fiancé we’re gonna have to convert her double garage to a bedroom and small storage area meaning workbench eliminated  but needs must
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distortion park posted:Visited a house today my in-laws were looking at, owned by an old and extremely catholic couple (crucifixes in every room, pictures of the pope etc). In the basement they had a fun old school tool collection i will take all the files, the draw knife, and whatever is unlocked by the little key (hoping it's a motorcycle). tia rotor posted:tool tip: old files are made of good steel and should be repurposed, new files are just case hardened mild still and should not. you can still buy good quality new files but you pay through the nose for them.
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did you know? every tooth on a rasp is made by hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MtfBSt0oqY
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rotor posted:i got one of those pocket sized hand tool rescue wrenches and its neat but also you can drill a hole in the bottom so the screw on it tightens down on a 1/4" hex bit and it works great imo this is just a monkey wrench
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DELETE CASCADE posted:this is just a monkey wrench you're teling me a monkey made this wrench?
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DELETE CASCADE posted:this is just a monkey wrench post your monkey wrench then
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DELETE CASCADE posted:this is just a monkey wrench no a monkey wrench is the "eeeeerectin a dispenser" type wrench 
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what they need to make is a little black carabineer that has a hard-to-poke-yourself-with philips head bit, flat head bit, and one of those occluded box cutters. I want to be able to break apart cardboard boxes without needing another thing cluttering up my pockets, but so far nothing is quite right
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tried this thing and it is way more bracelet than im comfortable wearing, and too pokey to pick up the kids with it on, but otherwise very close to needs suiting: https://i.imgur.com/0FHcw3C.gifv
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Jonny 290 posted:post your monkey wrench then  got this one at some thrift shop in american canyon
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RokosCockatrice posted:tried this thing and it is way more bracelet than im comfortable wearing, and too pokey to pick up the kids with it on, but otherwise very close to needs suiting: how does their multitool watch band have dlc?!
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Leatherman is from Portland, Oregon
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