On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:14:53 -0400 (EDT)
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
My first
repair job was when I used a butter knife on the toaster
a good start, and
hopefully you have better tools now :-)
Personally I still find myself places I
have to check the cutlery to
repair something (when I'm at someone elses house).
There's a reason I always carry my Swiss Army knife. :-) (It's not a
very elaborate one, and not nearly up to comparison with, say, a
Leatherman, but it's pretty versatile given a little imagination.)
The 'Tinker' model of Swiss Army Knife has just about anything required,
I find.
A few times at work I've taken it as a personal challange (translate:
getting paid to fiddle around) to build an entire test fixture using
just the swiss army knife. It can drill holes for the screws, turn the
screws in, etc. That's for 'breadboard' grade fixtures that just use
plywood for the base, terminal strips, etc.
Sometimes minimalism is fun. For awhile.