25 Jun
2012
25 Jun
'12
2:18 p.m.
> Not everybody will agree with the concept of
"buy crappy tools, so that
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
My ears are burning :-)
I didn't think that I needed to spell it "ARD"
However, there is a case to be made, I think, for
buying the few tools
you need -- and getting high quality ones -- rather than buying a large
set of cheap tools.
FOr example, you mentioned taps. I tend to buy only the sizes I need, anf
get good ones, rathen than buyign one of the cheap imported srts with
plenty of sizes I don;'t need and made from 'steel' that appears to
actually be cheese...
In my case, there were too many situations where slightly obscure sizes
were needed (foreign cars), so my approach was a complete set of crap PLUS
good quality for all the ones used regularly. 'Course it DID get me an
early start on how to remove damaged fasteners! :-( "Easy-out"s got
upgraded to better REAL early on.
1) Check the power supplies. Cheak the voltages nad
check them for
ripply. Power supply problems are suprisingly common, and no computer
works porperly if it's not powered properly
2) Check the processor clock signal.
I'm proud to say that I at least mentioned the first two explicitly
People like us
aren't going to stick with a rigid structure. By high
school, my projects were becoming orthogonal to my teachers' lesson plans.
You
and I have a lot in common...