Hi all Hive community, I am Eros, Mike's collab and this time I am going to take part to the contest since it's 30 years I do manual reparations so Mike asked me to provide some niche and particular insights of my toolkit and how I use it!
This contest is about the tools I use to repair things or create, well there is not just one tool, but they are more than one and also of different types.
We start from a glazier's knife to the laptop I am writing this article with. But let's start a little bit back: what organ uses these tools.
Eh, yes, it is our hands that use them and before them the brain that guides them, and gives him the commands to accomplish what he has already built in the synapses.
Hardware tools
My imagination can have free rein through three tools: a plastic mallet, a glazier's knife and a glass lever.
This set of tools gave me the opportunity to indulge my innate propensity for repairing objects.
Since childhood, I have always had a curiosity to understand how any equipment or object worked, and this has led me to have the ability to repair anything.
In fact, with these 3 tools I can fix and restore windows, in this case PVC windows, to perfect condition.
Let us now look at the use of these tools, starting with the knife:
The Quarter Moon Knife
This tool is called a quarter-moon knife or "Don Carlos"; as we can see from the shape it looks very much like a quarter moon.
With this (dangerous) tool I can do a multitude of things: remove glass stops, clean glass from traces of glue or silicone, very gently remove polyurethane foam stains on door jambs.
It's not a Swiss Army knife, but once you learn the potential it has, you never give it up!
The PVC mallet
This is a simple hammer with a hard plastic head; it is used to reassemble window stops without breaking (not always, I've had that happen to me too!) the glass. But its versatility is very broad because we can mechanically stress many fragile things without breaking them.
The lever
Here is the summa of all tools, to fully understand the usefulness of this object, we have to trouble the supreme Archimedes: "Give me a lever and I will lift the world."
Well this is used to be able to pry the doors open and to be able to insert special shims for the glass panes.
Not only that.
We can lift door leaves to be able to lubricate the hinges without disassembling them, move a blocked shutter.
In short, anything that needs leverage!
These are the tools that allow me to work (to the layman's eye) miracles around windows that have never had the "pleasure" of a good overhaul.
Of course, my personal briefcase has more than just these three items, there are all the screwdrivers possible and imaginable, milling cutters, 90° joint drill bits so I can screw in screws in tight spaces.
What's more, when I need it and I don't have the ability to buy it because I have to solve a problem, I put my mind to it and build it.
I remember a few years ago on a camping trip, I had a snag with the transformer of the portable refrigerator and had to disassemble it.
Out of four screws, three with philips insert and one with triangular recess: how do I do it?
Simple!
I took a tent peg, file and built it!
As I wrote just above, in addition to these hand tools, I use a digital one: the PC, the one in the photo and my travel PC, where I can write articles and write lines of code for the bot we are building with Mike.
Here I have shown you what are my favorite tools and what allow me to get great results, however, as with this amazing blog the difference is made by the community, so by us; it is the exact same thing with the tools.
We make the difference, our brains, who we are. These are the aspects that make a tool "alive" and that can create things.
A bit enlightenment like thinking, but I am convinced that man, with his brain can do anything!
Hello everyone and have a creative Sunday!!!
