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Quick tip today and to say a belated Happy New Year! Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet here lately, it’s been all work, work, work, plus it seems parenting a pair of teenagers requires a lot of work also lol! Now, I’ve been adding a magnetic bit holder to my drivers for years, ever since they started to move away from Pozidriv (most common in the UK) screws towards Torx (the T series: sizes T10, through to about T60). Now a typical work day will probably include T20 and T25 …
This list of DIY tools originally started because someone asked me the other day what tools I used the most. Not my favorite, or the best, or the most expensive, but what tools I used every day. This got me thinking about what I actually carry on me at work. At least half of the tools on this list are in my pockets all the time. Hmm, I thought, this would make a great ‘top 10’ list of simple DIY tools for someone starting out. This might surprise you, but …
Quick tip… I’m working on an apartment conversion these days and as I finished using my (expensive) to cut some shelving, I went to put it down, and realised I hadn’t put anything on the ground to protect it. It’s a rule of mine to never put tools on the ground! I popped the saw back on the workbench whilst I reached for a couple of off-cuts from the big scrap pile to put underneath it. Why do I bother? Well, on this job the ground is a mixture of granite …
Using the ever so simple centre punch… If you’ve tried drilling holes in metal before you’ll remember the drill bit ‘walking’ all over the metals surface instead of starting the hole exactly where you wanted it. This is because metal is hard (I know this is free advice but Duh! Of course metal is hard, when are you going to tell me something I don’t know?) OK, so you know that metal’s hard, but did you know that if you make the tiniest of dimples in the metals surface, the …
Even if your spirit level is not very good. Something I was taught very early on in my building career was that spirit levels “tell lies”…. Now that was probably just my old boss talking, after I’d pointed out something he built wasn’t level, but in a way he was right. Spirit levels DO tell lies, about 0.15mm per M usually. Now that only adds up to 1.5mm in a 10m run which is not too much of a worry, but that’s when the level is brand new. After a …
