1 Jun
2005
1 Jun
'05
1:48 p.m.
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at
xenosoft.com>
Hi
My first repair job was when I used a butter knife
on the toaster to fix the timer. It actually worked
when I was done. I was about 6 years old at the time.
Dwight
A Phillips bit will work moderately well on a
Pozidriv screw, but the
about as well as a butter knife works on slotted screws
2:28 p.m.
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:23 PM
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Personally I still find myself places I have to check the cutlery to repair
something (when I'm at someone elses house).
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
My first repair job was when I used a butter
knife
on the toaster to fix the timer. It actually worked
when I was done. I was about 6 years old at the time.
a good start, and hopefully you have better tools now :-) 
3:14 p.m.
My first repair job was when I used a butter knife on
the toaster
a good start, and hopefully you have better tools now :-) 
5 Jun
5 Jun
8:20 a.m.
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:14:53 -0400 (EDT)
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
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.
My first
repair job was when I used a butter knife on the toaster
a good start, and
hopefully you have better tools now :-)
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