@msbellows @AndrewHenry @ai6yr The accelerator cale snapped on our VW Fastback. We were able to coast downhill to a typical Maine gas station/store, where we got some picture wire. The vice grips (already in one of the trunks) served to hold one end of the wire and to use as a gas pedal. Worked well enough to drive another 3 hours to Boston. I'll always have a place in my heart for vice grips.

@sbourne @msbellows @AndrewHenry @ai6yr
If it's being used in your heart, wouldn't it be a locking hemostat? 🤪

@evilotto @sbourne @msbellows @AndrewHenry someone called for a hemostat?

@ai6yr Hemostats are the electronic nerd’s equivalent to the mechanical nerd’s vice-grips. Hemo’s are great third hands for soldering stuff - especially if they are the curved tips version.