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#ToolOfTheDay or is it #HackOfTheDay. You have a brradboarded mashup and you want to add a logic probe or injector bit it’s already really skeevy. Make up some du-pont replicator adaptors which give you extra pins to attach grounds and probes.

Kit Bashir Apr 4

#ToolOfTheDay these ¹² "nano sponges" get sharpie and other marks of surfaces like magic. Oh and clean circuit boards too.

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Kit Bashir Mar 22

#ToolOfTheDay USB ammeters (especially for USB type C) are super handy, but a number of models ONLY work when USB power delivery protocol is being used (so they appear to be broken when only plugged in at one end, when plugged into a charge-only cable, or prior to completing PD negotiation). This¹ ² one is not so cheap as many but works with all kinds of power sources.

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Kit Bashir Mar 19

#ToolOfTheDay This¹² portable USB toolkit will get you out of many a connectivity problem. Unlike so many other adaptors, its iPhone lighting plug is really reliable, it's the only cable I have that 100% reliably charges my elderly and banged-up iPhone. If it had a lipstick storage and a mirror it would be

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Kit Bashir Feb 19

#ToolOfTheDay this serrated box cutter cuts tape and cardboard without accidentally ruining your Precious Pakidge I have a bad habit of using a scalpel to open packages and then the ragrets.

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Kit Bashir Feb 12

#ToolOfTheDay When you need the job to be ultra precision clean.

Kit Bashir Dec 10

#ToolOfTheDay the Dreadnaught File. One of those “rarely needed but you’ll be glad you had it!” tools. Removes non ferrous metal like nothing else.

Kit Bashir Nov 19

#ToolOfTheDay: combined drill-tap-chamfer bit. When you only have one hole to tap and you couldn’t be smegged getting out the tap wrench or fitting a tap follower in the mill, there is no tool that will ruin your day faster than popping one of these bad girls in your drill press. For added anguish, use a cordless drill.

Kit Bashir Nov 11

#ToolOfTheDay: Campbell’s chicken soup. The ideal quenching medium for Rings of Power.

Kit Bashir Nov 10

#ToolOfTheDay Adjustable reamers. You don’t need em very often but when you do they save an asstonne of work. (If you don’t have any, you can make a one off reamer to do the job, but that takes longer).