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tel......Just seen #14. Don't know what happened there???
 
I got stuck on a job today, and the solution made me think of this thread.

After adding a socket in a customers hallway, he asked if I could do something with the telephone extension that was roughly stapled around the door frame….
Got it rerouted under the floor as I had a board up anyway… reterminating, I realised I didn’t have my punch down tool….

Cue my little screwfix card!

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I got stuck on a job today, and the solution made me think of this thread.

After adding a socket in a customers hallway, he asked if I could do something with the telephone extension that was roughly stapled around the door frame….
Got it rerouted under the floor as I had a board up anyway… reterminating, I realised I didn’t have my punch down tool….

Cue my little screwfix card!

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I sawed a slot in a screwdriver in that situation once! Your solution is cheaper.
I was expecting a post about moving a pool table slate using roller skates or something….
 
I sawed a slot in a screwdriver in that situation once! Your solution is cheaper.
I was expecting a post about moving a pool table slate using roller skates or something….
dont tempt me.

I pulled my 30 year old skateboard out my dads garage a while ago, sanded it down and let my artistic daughter do her thing with paint.... i'm thinking it could handle the weight??
 
I was once trying to drill a hole through the suspension leg of my old car so I could put a nut and bolt in as the captive nut had sheared off. The only drill bit we had had gone blunt and we didn't have a bench grinder. It was Sunday afternoon so nothing was open back in the day.

Cue me sitting down on the drive with the angle grinder, wheel up, gripped between my feet. I tickled the drill bit up and it went through like a knife through butter. While I was doing the grinding my Dad muttered something about how stupid I was and walked off. Probably not wanting to witness his Son performing a self foot-ectomy!
 
I just found today something that I’d forgotten about….

When you’re knocking out a chase with a hammer and chisel as you can’t get close enough with the SDS…. And you don’t want to accidentally hit parts of the wall that are still decorated…

Back of hand makes an excellent wall protector.

“*$##!!”
 
As a very young boy I cut through the twin flex of my bedside lamp with a pair of scissors...
I still have those scissors, and the "notch" in the blade is ideal for stripping the individual cores of 1.5mm t&e
 
I actually used my CK cable croppers the other day to prune back some small branches on my garden hedge when I couldn't find my secateurs. They cut a small branch like a knife through butter
 
As a very young boy I cut through the twin flex of my bedside lamp with a pair of scissors...
I still have those scissors, and the "notch" in the blade is ideal for stripping the individual cores of 1.5mm t&e
My daughter went one better, she wrapped all the flexes in tissue paper, then used scissors to trim it and 'missed'. This caused a spark that set the tissue paper alight.
When I entered the room every flex was still live AND impressively on fire!

This is the same daughter that tried to cool down a bedroom light by pouring water on it. Later the same day she wanted an explanation of how the dishwasher didn't explode like the light bulb did, as the dishwasher has both water and electricity.
She's turned out very practically minded
 
Anyone you uses brand new cable shears to cut down 3.5/4mm screws is a badger

Equally anyone who uses a new wood chisel to chop our brick or block is a badger
CK tail cutters are excellent for cutting socket screw down, snips etc butcher the ends but tail cutters make an ultra clean cut, doesn't damage them either, I use the small notch though which I don't use for anything else.
 

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