Re: Your Favorite Install Tool?

[Matt Ion <soundy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Sutton wrote:
> Matt Ion wrote:
>
>> Jim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> I just pick up cargo pants cheap at Value Village and such places.
>> They have tons of pockets of varying sizes, and they're expendable :)
>
>
> Get a tailor (or wife) to sew some cordua nylon pockets on the front to
> hold the kneepads.   I know you can get kneepads that strap on but you
> can't wear them around all day or they end up around your ankles.

Good idea.

I keep meaning to get some kneepads... unfortunately I don't need them
often enough to think of it until I'm somewhere I actually need them.

> I agree completely - I have a PicQuic stubby (which I should have
> mentioned).  However I have managed over the years to break a couple of
> PicQuics (the top of the handle typically) and now the bits tend to slid
> out oneir own and get lost.  Never lost a bit from my MegaPro.

Hmmmm I've never broken a PicQuic.  Lost a few over the years. Worst
that's happened is the locking ball-bearing gets lost, which they appear
to have "fixed" by relegating that design only to the "pro" model, using
only a magnet to keep the in-use bit in place in the "standard" models now.

>> A 2-AA Minimag will only make the Rottie mad.  You wanna defend
>> yourself, you need a 4-D Maglite, minimum :)
>>
> No no you are using the wrong technique - think of an ice pick not a
> baseball bat.

Shove it in the dog's ear to pierce his brain?  Rotties' skulls are all
infused with concrete at birth, donchknow... anything less than a 12lb.
sledge is just gonna bounce off no matter what angle you hit'em at.


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