Re: contact window/ most used tool

["Russell Brill" <russwbrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Don wrote:
>> "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > I'd try a supermagnet first, looks like you have room to tuck one up
>> > beside
>> > the seal.
>>     egzackly what I ended up with.  3/8" switchs with terminals.  No way
>> to
>> drill up for mag.  Not enough room.  Those drawings must not have been
>> scale.  1/8" flat mag with the dst fit nicely in bottom sash on the
>> inside
>> edge of the notch for the seal,  lined up perfect with hole drilled just
>> inside barrier down thru sill  to basement.  Ended up not as bad as I
>> imagined.
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> I knew it would work. There's nothing like being in the field and
> actually
> working on the job. Certainly better than sitting in an office in
> Florida
> reading a print copied off the Internet and then trying to tell someone
> who's actually done the work, that they're wrong.
>
No one here does that :-))
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>>     Found these today .  Havent seen them in years, so ordered a couple.
>> This is the single most used hand tool that I have had in my hand in the
>> last 5 years.  Cutter, stripper and real b connector crimper out at the
>> end
>> of the tool.  Good for rough and finish work.  Any others?
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