Random Cool Tricks

Great idea, HD!

 

Muzzle protector for wet weather, or smell restrictor after a day of shooting black powder so you don't stink up your car. Nitrile glove fingers work great.

 

Yes, that's just what it looks like. A bunch of work clothes stuffed down one leg of a pair of trousers. The other leg is reserved for the weeks hangers, so they don't clutter my closet with twelve to fourteen extra hangers every week. The beauty of this trick is that the hangers don't move around and get tangled when they're in the trouser leg.
They fold against the stuffed leg and ride nicely in the car on their way to work so the uniform service can pick them up.

 

Duck and roll with it! That's how kids get nicknames! I think his should be Lucky.

Reminds me of my own childhood, although I was more likely to get crushed under falling bales of hay, trampled by cows, or get trapped in collapsed snow forts. I did bounce off the front of a red 67 Ford Country Squire station wagon. The screeching tires scared the daylights out of me, but I wasn't more than a little bruised.

 

Here’s my pocket set of Klein’s. Shortened by 2 inches or so. Slips into my Carhartt side pocket and won’t flip out. The other gizmo is penta socket with slots. Spins eye bolts in and out amongst a few other uses. Of course opens transformers.

 

I like the eye bolt spinner. With gas lamps and lanterns hanging about I've found a hook and eye bolt spinner for the cordless drill to be a real time and labor saver.

People that don't like their lighting filled with pressurized gasoline can only appreciate this while hanging Christmas decor.

 

When you need to clean or change a generator on a lantern it usually results in damage to the fragile mantle(s). With this old Lisle carburetor clip tool I steer the generator right into the eccentric block hole without coming near the mantle with my fingers . That fat generator and massive spring are from a Coleman 288, and run unaltered on a 285 kerosene conversion.

 

@hot diggity that was pure genius !

 

That sounds like someone who's fumbled a few generators and broken some mantles.

 

you have no idea lol

 

Comm sucks!

Old radio guys will know this trick.

The mild abrasiveness of a pencil eraser can gently clean inaccessible contacts and get electronics working.

 

Lots of auto electrical issues can be fixed temporarily with a good whack from a hammer. In tank fuel pumps, window motors, starter relays, and even batteries with bad cells. It can at least get you off the road, or out of the way. Just have to bump the contacts sometimes. Mallet, baseball bat, broom handle. All are special tools in my World.

 

Used the pencil trick to clean contacts on PCB's. Cinci controls on DeVliegs, Modicons, Alllen Bradleys, etc, etc, etc.

 

On my Navy ship, my tube equipped UHF radios sometimes lost output power. Often, I would just slide the radio out of it's rack casing, slap it sharply upside the frame and intone "BE HEALED!" like a Southern Baptist revival preacher. Power would often come back up to normal as the tuner rotors reset. Had the radiomen thinking I had "the power"! Hehe....