Typical leftyist attention seeking behaviour. School teachers have a lot to answer for no beating such nonsense out of children at an early age. Nowadays the culture is to accommodate such aberrant behaviour rather than to correct it. ;-)
Tim
When our daughter left home for a shared flat, we gave her a set of tools. Pink handles, in a pink toolbag. We wanted to make sure her (male) flatmates didn't accidentally-on-purpose add them to their own collection...
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For some reason :
has lived on or near my desk since peeling it off a magazine 34 years ago!
You were my first school teacher, AICMFP ;-)
About 45 years ago I started buying tools from a Snap-On guy in a van. One day he had a pink ratchet screwdriver at 1/3rd price of black similar. Magnetic holder, takes standard bits. Why? Asks I. Cos they f***ed up and got the colour wrong. So I bought it. Brilliant tool and I use it daily. Never lose it and it's never been nicked. Still works perfectly. Wife doesn't like it much, says it's too big to get her hand around. Ho hum. Nick.
Funnily enough, I was pondering the age of the contents of my toolboxes a few hours ago.
I bought a socket set when I got my first motorbike (46 years ago). It was ok, not great, but as I wore bits out I bought 'good' replacements. The ratchet handle went first; I'm still using its replacement, also the long extension bar. Quite a few replacement sockets, but I'm still using some originals. And there are 'extras' which will be useful if I ever have to strip down a Honda CB72 again.
I have a pair of uninsulated side cutters (small ones) that date from the same era. About a year after I got them I used them to cut a 3 core mains cable - live (someone had restored the power to the school lighting switchboard, not knowing I was climbing the gantry to trim the cable. I was hanging onto the earthed gantry at the time of the cut and nearly fell off. The cutters suffered a burned section of blade but still work well; I use them a lot.
I also have a pair of BA box spanners which I never use. One of them has a lot of tape rolled round it from when I used it as a jig to hold bits in place when I de-mastered a load of room locks at university to stop the cleaners coming in early (ish) in the morning. [just reversing the position of two pins with the normal key cuts in the same place, but the master cuts in a different place]
No, duff broadband! Cut off again coutrtesy of BT.
DealExtreme and BangGood seem to have them for a couple of quid ...
Got a similar bit of useful plastic. Looks as if it came with a PlasPlugs masonry drill. It has 4 drill size guages, Nos 6 - 14 screw size guage and a rules with a couple of holes and a notch at zero for round head, coutersunk screw or bolt lengths.
Damn useful bit of plastic.
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+1Hum I seem to have "lost" it. Ought to be in the "Network and Telecoms" tool box. And it is. B-)
Does she keep it nice and tidy?...
"Although right-handed ..."
I have a load of tools I inherited from my grandfather. Some of them I've never used, but I can't bear to throw tools away. OTOH, his huge Stilson wrenches are really uselful and I use them all the time.
Tut, tut. One of my friends in Keynes dismantled his room lock (in Keynes) to find out how it worked, not realising it was full of "ping-fuckits". I don't think we ever got it all back together.
These locks were not at Kent, but they were just like the Keynes ones. The box spanner hack was to make sure the pingfuckits didn't.
That disserves a "like" button...
Huge put finger to keyboard:
"I do a number of things...left handed" - could include attention seeking :-)
Perhaps it lacked the neccessary instructions. :)
I have about 30 here still in polythene sleeve, we we're given about 50-100 of them years ago to hand out to the students. They are all light blue in colour except one which is green. Very few students know what they are let alone how to use them. But if they really want to measure something I lend them my digital calipiers or my micrometer.
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