Topic: useful tools (Read 37177 times)

White Ensign · « **Reply #75 on:** July 19, 2006, 07:59:16 am »

The service charges are the reason why I use to drive Opel (Vauxhall in the UK).....
Youngat65 is right, who can afford an Audi don`t needs to moan about the prices for these extrasl. About the CD autochanger, that`s a nice trick....- as you have your NavSat running you can not listen to a CD. Though the autochanger is a bit handicaped.
About big (or expensive) cars and expenses I had a while ago a lad in front of me, driving an American Pick-up. There was V8 mentioned at the rear and beside of that a sticker: "Swallow-you moll!".

I think that`s the only way to treat the petrol-consumption

Back to the thread, it is worth to ask a garage for installing a alternative NavSat-system, if you don`t trust the map. A friend of mine had installed such a system and he is very satisfied with it.

J?rg

Roger in France · « **Reply #76 on:** July 20, 2006, 06:43:23 am »

I have a SatNav in my Renault Espace, here in France. I can change the voice, choice of one of two female or two male voices. They also spek any of 7 languages.

The discs are damn expensive and not as up to date as they claim. I also have to have a dedicated disc for each country where as other systems I know of have one disc for the whole of Europe. I do not know if that means discs are more or less comprehensive.Last time I was in the UK the system recognised that the M6 Toll section existed but when I got on to it it tried to tell me to "turn left to Brownhills, take the second exit at the roundabout..." etc.

However, I would not be without the system especially when driving alone. My wife is a good navigator and prefers maps even though she turns them upside down! I once saw a UK Road Atlas printed with the north of GB at the bottom of the page but I decided not to buy her one because having the map upsidedown but the text the right way up may confuse her!

Roger in France.

Malcolm Reade · « **Reply #77 on:** July 20, 2006, 08:30:13 am »

Hi Roger

The Sat Nav toll road thing is down to a setting on your system, you should be able to set the thing to avoid or take toll roads.

The way your wife reads maps could be a more difficult issue to resolve?

Since we bought our Sat Nav, arguments in the car have ceased almost completely.? I just punch in the post code for our destination and the thing takes us straight there! Absolutely brilliant for boat shows that we haven't attended previously!

Funnily enough though, we still keep road maps in the car, as they are useful to plan a route across country - the screen on the Sat Nav is too small to do this effectively.

Regards, Malc

Tug · « **Reply #78 on:** July 20, 2006, 12:02:33 pm »

I have one of those hand computers with europe sat nav in but always forget to charge the thing up,

I am still useing the Garmin e-map for its convieniance and pocket ability. no europe though, it will trace where you have been [for retracing steps again]

I Still print out area maps before going anywhere strange (and there's no-where stranger than here) map on steering wheel up-side down or sideways cause the actual road system printed bears no relation-ship to where I am.

On the workshop theme, Put a bead of silicone around the seams of the bench and a small beading accross all edges, Having just lost a week finding a circlip. I did the last remaining bench this morning. Tug

Fast Electricals · « **Reply #79 on:** July 20, 2006, 03:48:31 pm »

Well back to the original thread!

How about the humble clothes peg. Probaly the most useful tool known to man.

You can:-

Hold things together while the glue sets
Put it on your nose if the glue is really stinky.
Hold small items for soldering without burning your fingers
Fix a map to the sun visor instead of buying sat nav and have an extra ?300 to spend on beer.
Have hours of fun explaing to the wife why her pegs are covered in burn marks, glue, paint, blood, sweat and oil.

Neil

Malcolm Reade · « **Reply #80 on:** July 20, 2006, 03:55:07 pm »

Clothes peg abuser eh?

Better watch out for the knock on the door late at night...........

Shipmate60 · « **Reply #81 on:** July 23, 2006, 11:26:02 am »

So you are the one sneaking into my garden late at night and raiding the peg bag, glad to hear it as my missus is forever blaming MEEEEEEEEEEE.

Bob

Malcolm Reade · « **Reply #82 on:** July 23, 2006, 07:10:54 pm »

It wasn't me guv - honest!

Malc

magpie · « **Reply #83 on:** August 17, 2006, 01:08:16 pm »

My lazer light level is very handy for aligning things on my subs and marking water lines etc. I love it and it only cost $7 form Micro Mark on special!

Youngat65 · « **Reply #84 on:** August 17, 2006, 02:30:23 pm »

You know I have had a lazer level for some time and i never thought about making use of it when model boat building ; makes sense when you think about it

laserblue16 · « **Reply #85 on:** September 16, 2006, 09:44:50 am »

Don't forget the collostomy bag, so you don't loose any build time due to bodily function interruptions!!!

Youngat65 · « **Reply #86 on:** September 16, 2006, 12:30:44 pm »

Laserblue ........you don't know how near to the truth you are in my particular case right at this moment ...........however just think I won't he looking for the next service station on the motorway when I travel down to Brean Sands next week .
Cheers
Bob B

ambernblu · « **Reply #87 on:** September 21, 2006, 09:58:25 am »

Hope you have a good week at Brean Sands, Bob... Cheers, Brian

tigertiger · « **Reply #88 on:** October 02, 2006, 11:35:55 am »

stanley knife.

I have been using these smaller knives with the snap off sections of blade for a while.

Just reached in to my toolbox and (by chance) grabbed my old stanley knife. It cut deeper, cleaner, easier and saved a lot of time.
I know what I will be using in future.

ambernblu · « **Reply #89 on:** October 02, 2006, 12:26:11 pm »

Just reminded me reading tigertiger's post... when needs must, I'm not above making my own tools to suit a specific purpose. Here's a selection!

Impromptu saw! I needed to cut away some unwanted old plasticard inside the narrow Cossack hull (with nowhere at all for a large saw handle to go never mind a couple of fingers!) so, a broken piece of hacksaw blade and a suitable lump of unused milliput from the freezer moulded to suit the contours of your fingers... does a fantastic job too, without chewing your fingers up! :)

Useful sanding block... Think I've said this before, but don't throw your bits of wet n' dry away! A small piece superglued to some balsa means I can get some difficult to reach areas sanded without too much hassle... I have a few of these in all sizes and grades!

Comfy blade! Again, for those areas where you can't get the whole Stanley knife into, but using the blade causes you grief. This one I've had for a few years - packed around with some polystyrene and foam and a strip or two of packing tape to secure....

Cheers, Brian

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barriew · « **Reply #90 on:** October 02, 2006, 05:50:25 pm »

Quote from: ambernblu on October 02, 2006, 12:26:11 pm

Useful sanding block... Think I've said this before, but don't throw your bits of wet n' dry away! A small piece superglued to some balsa means I can get some difficult to reach areas sanded without too much hassle... I have a few of these in all sizes and grades!

Same idea, but use bits of plastic card - more flexible than balsa to get round corners etc.

Barrie

malcolmfrary · « **Reply #91 on:** October 03, 2006, 11:38:25 am »

The junior hacksaw blade is really handy - I try to fix things so that mine cuts on the pull part of the stroke.

ambernblu · « **Reply #92 on:** October 03, 2006, 12:19:10 pm »

Quote from: malcolmfrary on October 03, 2006, 11:38:25 am

The junior hacksaw blade is really handy - I try to fix things so that mine cuts on the pull part of the stroke.

Yep, quite right, the other half of the blade is set up to do that - depends which particular 'stroke' you can best achieve eh?

The main thing is to cover up those horrible lugs at each end of the blade with a lump of milliput - its nice and comfy to use then!

cbr900 · « **Reply #93 on:** October 11, 2006, 02:55:12 am »

Another useful tool for when you are gluing something had to get at the glue accelerator it means you can glue and get out of there quickly very handy at times.....

Roy

tigertiger · « **Reply #94 on:** October 11, 2006, 04:09:51 am »

Mole grips

I hold them in my small vice, to use as a micro vice for really fiddley sanding or filing jobs on small pieces of stuff

DickyD · « **Reply #95 on:** October 11, 2006, 05:41:46 am »

Do the motor cycle goggles stop the contact lenses falling out or do they catch them when they do ??? ??? ???

durhambargeman · « **Reply #96 on:** November 06, 2006, 08:27:17 am »

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the most useful tool of all which can be used for thousands of applications...the round tooit. How often have I said," I will do that job as soon as I get a .....

Doc · « **Reply #97 on:** November 06, 2006, 02:09:19 pm »

halcyon,
Absolutely the most terrible thing you can have within 100 yards of yourself! A 'roundtoit'. Had one. Mounted it very prettily on a board and gave it to someone I didn't like much. Best thing I ever did. In case you haven't seen one, brown, sort of round, maybe an inch in diameter (about), looks quite simular to deer droppings. Didn't taste it, afraid I might like it...
- 'Doc

cbr900 · « **Reply #98 on:** November 08, 2006, 05:32:05 am »

Some of the rountoits I have been getting to are nearly twenty years old, must get rountoit soon...

Roy

tobyker · « **Reply #99 on:** November 10, 2006, 12:24:04 am »

Useful tools

1. a padsaw (in-line handle with a hacksaw blade running through the middle). Use a fine jigsaw blade and you have a short stiff blade that cuts on the pull stroke, leaving a really fine cut like one of those Japanese woodsaws. Just used it to hollow out all the Perkasa frames/spine.

2. A 6" long pair of backwards tweezers - pinch to open, release to close. Bought mine from Proops in Tottenham Ct Rd 30 years ago - worth several times their weight in gold.

3. Swann Morton Scalpel and blades.

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