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You have foliage up there-over there?
Possibly even from trees??
Next you'll be telling us there's even forest there...?!?
Carsten
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House has a row of huge conifers along the back & the spouting is stuffed with needles, etc!
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Just a small purchase: A package of three pairs of jaw protectors for my Knipex parallel-jaw pliers wrench. I haven't had a chance to use the jaw protectors yet, but I think they could be good for working with finish-grade fittings, like on faucets, heated towel racks, etc., without dinging up the fittings. They're made of some kind of hard plastic and I'm hoping they'll be tough enough to handle a decent amount of torque. Anyone have these protectors? If so, how are they holding up?
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Is it just me or does that look like some sort of demented parrot thing?
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I've got the Knipex grips with the plastic jaws already fitted, they are very soft. They couldn't twist the cock off a chocolate mouse! Just don't grip very well at all.
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I use copper, I'd imagine it works better, and its free (If you've got some copper).
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Note to self: Keep UK-American dictionary handy.Taps old chap. Taps.
BTW, when I was a wee lad, I think it was quite common over here to use the term "tap" as an alternative for "faucet." Not quite as common these days (but still standard usage at pubs or for beer kegs).
Are the plastic jaw protectors on your grips the same as these? Knipex makes several different jaw protectors. The ones I bought seem quite hard, and they snap on to the jaws. I don't know exactly what they're made of, but in terms of hardness and appearance they remind me of some kind of glass-filled thermoplastic. They would certainly be able to tighten a
Spouse thought it looked like an angry puffin.
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I've used pieces of copper and dead-soft aluminium in that way, as I do in my vices as well. I got these partly for the convenience factor and...if I'm going to be honest...because it was a tool accessory that I didn't already have.
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No they are permanently attached to them and soft like rubber.
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...a single phase motor, brand new off the bay looks decent. Made in Holland 
..doesnt look like a PRC export. It's 1.5kwx2pole X 2850 rpm... going to see if it's got more umphh for polishing jobs than my 500w converted bench grinder 
..... Plan is to convert it to double end....all in £65....switch was £7.50....that was from the PRC 
Still a few on the listing...
..doesnt look like a PRC export. It's 1.5kwx2pole X 2850 rpm... going to see if it's got more umphh for polishing jobs than my 500w converted bench grinder ..... Plan is to convert it to double end....all in £65....switch was £7.50....that was from the PRC Still a few on the listing...
For use with silver, I dipped pliers (not Knippex!) in a tub of Plasti-Kote. Looked very smart in blue
Last time I looked for P-K it was all aerosol though
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Ah plasti-dip is the stuff, yes good stuff too I used to use it a lot for tool ID especially pink as no one would pinch pink tools on site!
Still available, could only find it here though!
Still available, could only find it here though!
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Oof, that's expensive. Pink? Brilliant idea
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A few what, switches or motors?
Could do with a link too.
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Last time I looked for P-K it was all aerosol though
It's still available in dip cans here as well. For example, a 6-pack of 22-oz (651ml) cans for $88.98 ($14.83/can):
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Plasti-Dip-22-fl-oz-Yellow-Dip-Rubberized-Coating/3760707
I've used it for exactly what they show on the label: to replace or rejuvenate worn plastic coatings on tool handles.
My most recent use of Plasti Dip was to replace (or repair) the original rubbery coating on a bunch of hydraulic hose guide brackets. Here are a couple of them. After dipping them, I painted over the edge of the black Plasti Dip with yellow paint, since I thought it could provide an additional seal.
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I gave a lass a lift to the shops and saw a worklight shining in the gutter on the wrong side of the road.
We did the shopping, I stopped on the way back and nobody had driven over it so I scored for a nice Durite muliti function rechargable LED with mag base.
It's karma in action - and this light is slightly better than the magnetic workllight I lost last year. That is either still stuck under the car I was working on or it fell off over a speedbump / pothole when i did the test drive after doing the work. Oops.
We did the shopping, I stopped on the way back and nobody had driven over it so I scored for a nice Durite muliti function rechargable LED with mag base.
It's karma in action - and this light is slightly better than the magnetic workllight I lost last year. That is either still stuck under the car I was working on or it fell off over a speedbump / pothole when i did the test drive after doing the work. Oops.
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I've wanted some of these ever since I discovered their existence maybe 10-15 years ago, but either they were way too expensive - especially in the beginning - or way too bad - since they started copying * them.
( * By the way: The next person who seriously wants to sell me for the umteens time the old nonsense of "in Chinese culture, imitation is the highest form of admiration" I will bite!).
What could be faster and easier for a quick first estimation on 1/64" or 1/10mm, than to hold such a taper gauge into a bore etc. and to read at the edge?!?
Taper gauge - the word with us -, perhaps better measuring cone is not used at all to measure cones, but to measure holes - quick and dirty, so to speak.
This time inexpensive, with easily readable laser engravings in strong material thickness from a German dealer with phone number and people behind it, completely without the bay of thieves.
The same supplier:
Call from the boss: "We ran out of the 300mm rulers with inches you ordered" - "But I want mm and inches" - "No problem, may we put in a 500mm ruler that is also wider for the same price? Yes? Thank you!" - the day after next the package was here.
And because of course I can't bear to have only heard about scraping and the miraculous powers inherent in it, I want to learn it too:
The label "Rennsteig" appears more often lately and made me suspicious at first: It sounds just TOO German and one knows the method ....
Rennsteig is traditionally (Wiki):
"The Rennsteig is an approximately 170 km long ridge trail as well as a historical border trail in the Thuringian Forest, Thuringian Slate Mountains and Franconian Forest. It is also the oldest and, with about 100,000 hikers a year, the most walked long-distance hiking trail in Germany."
A typical candidate to sell some snot under it's name for a few years and then close the operation leaving behind unpaid salaries and rents ...
But it doesn't look like it, on the contrary (Wiki):
"Rennsteig Werkzeuge in its current form essentially emerged from VEB Handwerkzeuge Steinbach-Hallenberg in the Werkzeugkombinat Schmalkalden. In 1990, it was founded as a GmbH (limited liability company), was under the administration of the Treuhandanstalt, and became a company of the Knipex Group in 1991."
So I'm on the lookout and will give them a fair chance.
Carsten
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( * By the way: The next person who seriously wants to sell me for the umteens time the old nonsense of "in Chinese culture, imitation is the highest form of admiration" I will bite!).
What could be faster and easier for a quick first estimation on 1/64" or 1/10mm, than to hold such a taper gauge into a bore etc. and to read at the edge?!?
Taper gauge - the word with us -, perhaps better measuring cone is not used at all to measure cones, but to measure holes - quick and dirty, so to speak.
This time inexpensive, with easily readable laser engravings in strong material thickness from a German dealer with phone number and people behind it, completely without the bay of thieves.
The same supplier:
Call from the boss: "We ran out of the 300mm rulers with inches you ordered" - "But I want mm and inches" - "No problem, may we put in a 500mm ruler that is also wider for the same price? Yes? Thank you!" - the day after next the package was here.
And because of course I can't bear to have only heard about scraping and the miraculous powers inherent in it, I want to learn it too:
The label "Rennsteig" appears more often lately and made me suspicious at first: It sounds just TOO German and one knows the method ....
Rennsteig is traditionally (Wiki):
"The Rennsteig is an approximately 170 km long ridge trail as well as a historical border trail in the Thuringian Forest, Thuringian Slate Mountains and Franconian Forest. It is also the oldest and, with about 100,000 hikers a year, the most walked long-distance hiking trail in Germany."
A typical candidate to sell some snot under it's name for a few years and then close the operation leaving behind unpaid salaries and rents ...
But it doesn't look like it, on the contrary (Wiki):
"Rennsteig Werkzeuge in its current form essentially emerged from VEB Handwerkzeuge Steinbach-Hallenberg in the Werkzeugkombinat Schmalkalden. In 1990, it was founded as a GmbH (limited liability company), was under the administration of the Treuhandanstalt, and became a company of the Knipex Group in 1991."
So I'm on the lookout and will give them a fair chance.
Carsten
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