Cue manic laughter

[pyoor_excuse]

The quality of this screwdriver set might not be all that I'd hope...



The new fan heater, it smells revolting; but it's got a ceramic element, and hell, it was 10 quid. Unlike last time I'll be keeping the receipt (you have no idea how many itterations of the word receipt I went through before my brain went 'no, you spell it like that'), because these days 10 quid matters much more than it did when I bought that EWT pile-o-crap. This one is also held together with screws, but disconcertingly, it has a 'caution' light. What's that about?

Anyway, if John has an appropriate screwdriver I'll take the other one apart 'gently' and fix it for garage use, if not then I'll use it as my first welding project - making a new metal case for it after I chop the plastic one apart to get the bits out. I can't just junk it. It'd make quite a good garage heater - 2,000 Watts is about as warm as I need down there. Also I can add in a 'fan only' switch which is always handy. This thing is suprisingly warm :-)

I also, in a spate of overspending, picked up a squeegie entirely for my rear view mirrors. Problem is they're too small for the normal window one, and it's been driving me nuts that I can't see out of them. So now I've got a specifically for mirrors one :-)

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[c0re-dump.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we can find a suitable screwdriver, although it looks like driving screws was not the cause of the failure shown in the photo. Maybe we should try a crowbar? Which reminds me, I never did find a source of those screwdrivers with the metal shaft passing right through the handle to a hammer-friendly metal target area on the top.

Want to pop round and have a go at this fan-heater thingy in my garage?

[pyoor_excuse]

Well, I'm intermittently working at the moment - but maybe sometime during the week? It's those three pointed screws sort of like a Y shape instead of an X. Lauren has a bit / adapter that'd fit... if the damn thing didn't have recessed screws. If you have, then that'd be great. If not then not to worry... Of course, at the same time I'll stick a handle on the top - because I'm fed up of the stupid design'd handle that you can't actually pick it up by.

I'll need it now though, 'cos someone's just offered to repair my bike frame if I can get it to them! I *love* MZ riders. They're just the loveliest bunch of lovely people in lovelyland.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

That's why I like Snap-on screwdrivers. They're clearly labelled "Do not use as prybar or lever", yet because you bought the decent ones in the first place, you can mis-use them.

[pyoor_excuse]

*laughs*

Well, these come from a very long line of very crap screwdrivers I've owned in my time. I actually bought the "Super Deluxe CheeseMetal Screwdriver Set" for something else in it. It was only a fiver or so for 80 billion extremely crap screwdrivers. Oh yeah, it had a torx screwdriver in it (however you spell that) which I needed to get my applemac (II) apart.

My memory is startlingly good on occasion. Anyway, they now mostly exist to use as things to beat objects with, to lever open paint tins and to mix bodyfiller with. But of course, I had to try using it first as a screwdriver - then as something to snap the columns holding the case together. It did neither :-)

[c0re-dump.livejournal.com]

Darnit, the old use-a-security-screw-in-a-recessed-hole trick! They think they can keep us out! Ha! Mr. Black and Decker says thay can't keep us out forever!

Oh, sorry, um, yes, let's see if we can gently remove that screw somehow...

[pyoor_excuse]

*grins perkily*

I don't actually care about the case. If we can get it out in one piece that's handy, if not then I'll use the fan-heater at home (which appears to have been a fanheater kit in which you got elements, a switch and a fan and made up your own case, 'cos I've seen the same internals & switch in several different cases) as inspiration for knocking up my own case.

[howlsthunder.livejournal.com]

that screwdriver is pSyChO!
O_O

[c0re-dump.livejournal.com]

What you see there isn't alarming at all, it's merely a screwdriver for undoing screws round corners. No toolkit is complete without one!

:-)

[howlsthunder.livejournal.com]

ohhhhhh, lol - I thought Kate bent it trying to do something. XP

[pyoor_excuse]

Would I ever use a screwdriver as some kind of pry-bar? Surely not. I always use the right tool for the job. Yes. Indeed.

Stop looking at me like that.

:)