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There are a couple major mechanism types for the motor/drive system in hair clippers. One type, uses a tuning fork type motor to oscillate the cutting blades. This is what Wahl uses. The other type uses a standard brushed motor, driving a worm screw, that drives a cam and pivot arm. This is what...

Reusable ziplock bags are a thing. Some are silicone rubber, with others being stiffer harder plastic. I actually sort of like the reusable bags for certain tool and part storage. I rarely reuse basic ziplock bags, unless it’s just for basic clean storage.

He includes his test data. If you need an easier pair of cutters to use to cut a material, you can probably use his test data to make a safe bet. If you need to cut hardened springs, and don’t mind slipping pipes on your cutter handles for extra leverage, then buy the Knipex, and cut away.

It should be remembered ergonomics is subjective, and individualized, and can cary greatly with the conditions the tools are being used in, along with hand size, hand pudginess, hand strength, and whether a person is left or right handed. (The former series of Facom pliers was made for right...

Craftsman pliers marked “France” would have been made by Facom/Bost, back when Craftsman was sourcing dome tools from SK, since SK for a couple decades was owned by Facom who branded the tools as SK-Facom, and who supplied higher end tool models fir the Craftsman Professional branding, even...

Angle grinders create sparks, and have a blade that spins in circles. This is dangerous to use in areas near flammable materials or gasses, as well as near stuff that could get caught in the wheel. An oscillating tool with a fine tooth carbide blade, or just a hacksaw blade would be safer. If...

The Knipex cutters were the most durable, and survived “abusive use. If you fo construction work in old buildings were you may wind ip needing to cut any weird **** you may randomly come across, (hardened masonry nails?), buying the Knipex may save having yo buy replacement cutters for ones...

Knipex just came out with a newer high leverage design, with a pivot point modified for even higher leverage than the older “high leverage cutter designs”. I have no clue whether these would be as durable, although Knipex does seem to have a decent handing on optimal overall hardnessing of...

Crescent pliers used to be like this as well, and dome Channellock pliers I have owned. The same goes for Facom. Most of my Knipex pliers have been fairly good out of the box as far as free movement at the rivet. As far as opening and closing pliers to “loosen” the joint, sometimes it takes...

Graphite is electrically conductive, and a broken pencil tip could float around, get caught in a switch or wiring or other circuitry, and cause an unknown fault. Also, the story is supposedly untrue, and the pen was allegedly developed independently.

This is a difference, but it is not the only difference. The sorter stroke is better for thin metal cutting, (such as plumbing work or metal studs), whereas a longer stroke is better for wood cutting. The shorter stroke length is/was, almost certainly to save battery life. (Similar shorter...

If I’m not mistaken, the older Milwaukee Super Sawzalls use a different tupe of gear mechanism compared to the newer ones, and particularly the cordless Milwaukee sawzalls. The mechanism in the newer saws is closer to what other manufacturers tend to use, and goes back to some of the original...

Fisher space pens, as has been mentioned. You can buy full pens, or refills for certain other pen brands. The refills come in a number of colors, except annoyingly, there is no white option. The silver refills will write snd be sort of visible on dark materials, but you sort of have to catch...

Allegedly “Crow Bar” cones from the way the end is bent and the iron tips splayed, like a “Crow’s foot or beak”, with the oldest term being just “crow” or “iron crow”. The oldest known use of the term apparently gies back to 1400AD, and Shakespeare even used “iron crow” in “Romeo and Juliet”...

Bristol manufactures “Bristol Spline” wrenches, used for small high torque fasteners. Brustol also makes standard hex wrenches. Chapman if I recall correctly has offered Bristol Spline bits for decades so there was likely already a relationship.