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pretty cool idea. like a battery but for air. i don't have a spare tire i could use for this but i think getting one would not be too hard and that way i wouldn't need another device, i could instead use my slow tool-battery powered tire-inflator, fill up the tire and then somehow attach this sprayer. seems simple but i have not tried it.

nice knot, i though this could be useful to me but i use too thick ropes in too confined spaces so it ended up not working the first time i tried it.

i mixed up the videos, this one's the knot, the other one was about the cable tie. i have tried a few different reusable cable ties and most liked simple velcro with the hooks on one side and the loops on the other. i have reused them quite a bit and never gave the disposable ones a chance but as the video shows, they can be useful for other things.

i once tried to replace an old rope with a new rope in a pully on a boat and i couldn't use knots because it would not go through the pully, that was ~5m up in the air, so i just tied the old rope to the new rope and held it together with disposable cable tie and it worked, it fit through the narrow pully.

>>315255
Most of my tools I inherited and are 50+ years old. I cannot afford buying any, so I borrow new tools from my parents.

>>315259
you built anything lately?

i've watched tool restauration videos a few times where some discarded tool is picked up from the bottom of a well and then completely restored doing 50 complicated steps. that's quite impressive to me and some of the steps, especially involving the heavy chemicals, i don't understand yet. maybe these old tools can teach you tool restoration skills.

i remember people calling me crazy for suggesting casinos are rigged.

>>315256
For a bicycle or a car? If it's a bike tire you can get single-use CO2 canisters (for pellet guns) with a fill nozzle. Very small and light but good to top up air preassure in an emergency.

>>315273
>single-use CO2 canisters
interesting, i didn't know about these.

i have a tool-battery powered tire inflator in the truck and i can recharge the tool batteries with 12v from the cigarette lighter-outlet, that gives me enough peace of mind regarding emergencies. i'm glad i have this one where the battery is meant to be easily changed out and not one of these modern tiny usb-c inflators with built-in battery, these silly product designers build hard-to replace batteries.

i'm so glad i bought such a pair of tin snips. it was sold at my local supermarket for 8€ (a medium-sized bowl of noodle soup in a small vietnamese restaurant costs 10€ for comparison, so for less then a meal) and it works so good. i've had another pair of scissors that i used to cut hard plastic sheet and thin sheet of metal but it did not work this good.

i've used it to cut into my pc case as to create an entrance for a cable that would have been too short otherwise and also i used it to cut rectangles from my sheet of rubber to use as spacers/dampeners.

what a glorious deal. having such scissors is so much better then having 8€.

this hot glue gun i have had for a few years now. i very much like it and i am glad i got it.

i've used it to glue magnets to my truck to hold up curtains, i've added ~25 magnets like that and only 1 or 2 have been falling off, the rest do not seem to come off; i was expecting they would all be off by now. i did this fully expecting that it most likely does not work but it works. i underestimated how useful hot glue can be.

i use this to glue boxes made from thick carton together for storage purposes.

i feel like i am not using it enough. it has been so useful to me, yet i am still always looking at other glues and tapes, which kind of disrespects this good glue gun which has been such a pleasant surprise.

i've had an old cabled glue gun before but i never used it because getting it from it's box and then connecting it to an outlet and waiting for so long (and i never had reachable outlets ready)… it seemed to take longer to get the thing ready then to actually use it so i never considered it. i'll eventually have a reachable outlet in my place but while it is still chaotic, this battery powered one is nice to have ready in mere seconds.

i think back when i bought it, it cost ~25€ but for how useful it has been to me, it would have been worth it to pay 35€ too.

i keep looking at this thing on the amazon page… a tool-battery powered soldering iron. i have not bought it, i dunno if this is useful, i know too little about soldering to make any kind of educated guess on this.

i recently bought a pinecil but i have not found a way to power it yet, i was hoping i could use my favorite powerbank to power it but the usb-power negotiation did not work and all my other usb sources are too weak so i have not even had the chance to try it out.

if i had gotten this thing instead, i may have already gotten a nice way to solder or de-solder stuff.

>>315279
>i was hoping i could use my favorite powerbank to power it
Consider something like this if you want true mobility. It has the necessary voltage booster circuitry to power any tool that relies on 120v

>>315280

>something like this

this specific model you have posted i've never seen but i've been into solar and batteries for many years now but mostly through watching videos and looking at stuff, hardly ever getting closer to building anything myself. what worries me about the thing you post is that the batteries are internal, i like batteries to be easily user accessible.

i already bought big solar panels at a ridiculous lucky low price. three 400 watt panels for 99€ each and a all-in-one box, i just have not gotten around to actually build it. 24 hours are not very many hours, i'd prefer 30 hour days to be honest.

all i am still missing is a battery and cables and maybe a few crimping tools so i can have solar power in the truck and once i move to a new place, hopefully in the new place. would love to have solar.

to power the pinecil some people have recommended used old laptop chargers.

this is my favorite powerbank btw: XTAR PB2S

i use it as a powerbank to charge usb devices at low and medium speeds (i don't think it does these modern remarkable powercharging speeds). some people also use it just as a charger for 18650 cells and other similar cells. so when these cells fail for me, i can just replace them with fresh cells and keep using the powerbank.

also it has a little display that shows which shows remaining percentage and the outgoing volts and ampere, which is nice to see at a glance which speed the device has negotiated with the usb. mostly i keep it in the car to power a little usb fan that helps my truck from getting too moist inside.

if i ever need more usb power, i have this little 10€ adapter which i can put on the tool batteries i already own to use them as powerbanks, i think the maximum they can deliver is 2,1a at 5v, so 10,5w. this also isn't modern high speed, but i am hoping the low speeds keep the devices alive longer. i think the fast charging speeds make the batteries in the usb devices die quicker.

>>315259
>50+ years old

if you have rust on them, i use this liquid that removes the rust by chemically changing the rust into this black metal-like substance. i apply it with a tiny brush and then i wait for up to 48 hours so the chemicals can react and then rub it off with a wet towel. i've not been using it long enough to know if it works that good, i mostly put it on cut steel rods because i noticed when i cut it, that's where the rust starts because the cut surface (unlike the rest of the steel) is not coated in zinc and steel likes to rust so that's always were it starts to rust and i hope the liquid can prevent it.

not sure if there are better ways. where i live a few of these rust treatments are sold, i never looked into it too deep, there might be better products to use.

>>315266
Yes, somewhat recently, but it was more of a hobbyist project, where I built a miniature hangar for a couple of aircraft model kits that I bought. Right nnow, I am working on a radio-controlled aircraft, which so far I have used my 30 year-old X-Acto knife and my 50 year-old pliers on.

When I am done with Uni, I will probably be moving out and once I do that, I hope to build my own furniture from scrap wood and stuff like old doors. The thing is, the only power tool that I have is a Dremel, which is 30 years old (I would not call my 30 year old soldering iron a power tool in the same sense).

I restored a pair of hemostats that I found in a park. God knows why they were there (maybe drug paraphernalia, as I have seen some drug dealing happen in that park, which I reported the the authorities). They work well now, but I still need to work on getting them unstuck.
>>315289
Most of them have been well kept and are fairly high quality brands, like King Dick, Sears Craftsman, Peterson-Dewitt and Heart Brand (Wynn, Timmins & Co. Ltd.). The aforementioned hemostats might be worth treating with this stuff.

>>315289
I suspect it is converting the rust to magnetite (ferral-ferric to ferral-ferrous oxide). This kind of 'blueing' is used a lot in gunsmithing and the like. Very effecting for creating rust resistance on the surface of metal for better future protection. You can actually do this by steaming and carding, and avoid chemicals altogether but it is somewhat of an art to get the timings right.

A small tip to keep things from rusting is to get an old tin can and wrapping a rag extremely tightly inside of it. You then fill the can with a choice chain oil or similar and it will coat the vulnerable surface in a very very thin oil layer. I use this tactic on my vice which lives outside in the shed, and it has slowed further rusting to a crawl, even without any treatment. Just apply another coat once in a while when you remember.

Are swiss army knives even worth it? I feel only thing I am using is just regular knife blade and sometimes scissors. Oh, few times I have used bottle opener. Things like saw, corkscrew or some other blades that remain mysterious to me feel useless and a meme.

Still, pretty cool tool…

>>318778
Victorinox has so many different models that everyone can find something for himself. You can have a phillips screwdriver instead of the corkscrew. There are many models without the saw - a layer slimmer or with some other tool instead of the saw.

>>318778
Yes, I have had one for over 20 years and it's incredibly handy.
>>318779
The best overall choice is the Deluxe Tinker because it's the smallest, lightest model they have that still comes with the combination pliers. You'll be using those constantly, pliers are an incredibly useful tools, especially on the size they come in a pocket knife.