AI6YR BenAha! Found the perfect replacement adjustment arm for this bicycle trainer! #BikeTooter #repair #kludge
Andrew HenryMother-in-law has a bunch of vise-grips she is trying to give away.
You make me think I can’t have too many vise-grips.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
Sarah E Bourne@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.
Jeff@sbourne @msbellows @AndrewHenry @ai6yr
If it's being used in your heart, wouldn't it be a locking hemostat? 🤪
If it's being used in your heart, wouldn't it be a locking hemostat? 🤪
Gary @N8DMT@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.
CavyherdA small pair of vice-grips was among the tool set my dad gave me when I graduated high school. I still have nearly all of those tools. (I think one screwdriver may have gone walkies.)
My hemostats I picked up more recently. I have two pair in different sizes. (The thing I need that don't have is some sort of non-locking hemostat kind of thing.) Like, needlenose pliers, but with loop handles.
My hardware store also finally stocked dental picks.