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Parents recognised there may be an issue when I took the family hammer to the toilet bowel 'just to see what would happen' Then grabbed screwdrivers and took old rotary dial phone apart and somehow managed to put it back together again So they bought me an electronics kit - very bad move, if I...

Big hammer Then bfh Then bmfh Then 'shipyard spanner' - also known as 'the beyond bmfh' used to hammer rivets on liners like the titanic (which I would stress was working perfectly when it left Belfast - I knew we shouldn't have let an Englishman drive!) chris

Any gods amount of 22mm sensor sockets available, but try finding a 17mm one (1995 jaguar xj6) - i'm going with cutting slot in 17mm deep socket and strapping jubilee clip round end of it to get out after soaking in plusgas Despite large car and mostly reasonable access, some bits are still a...

I'll really miss them - they (and NPR generally) kept me sane the hellish years I lived in NJ chris

If it works, it works - the hell with the colour - and if someone don't like it.....**** em c

I'd hate to see this thread die, so here's my story Father was one of the very first ICT professionals (systems and audits manager) so very little hands on tools interest - I think the family toolkit consisted of claw hammer, pair of pliers, screwdriver or two and that was it Even I came to...

That last one rings a bell - not sure how or why basement ended up flooded but remember days of trying to pump and dry things out after room flooded That second ex wife (the one the door fell on) was the ultimate scud when it came to any repairs being done within a mile radius of her - I've...

Nick, it's real easy - put car in reverse, hit accelerator and drive two ton jag over them chris

OK, who's brave enough to admit to them? I've only a top four and a half so far 1. Redecorating bathroom No. 1 Some floorboards lifted to replace, then up on stepladders to paint ceiling or affix wallpaper - down off stepladders, neglect to remember no floorboards present, crash, boot through...

My most explainable disappearance was when I had the jag stored up in a barn - the family that owned the house had just got a rottweiler puppy (from long experience, despite the bad reputation rotts have, they're generally just big pussycats - no such thing as a bad dog (apart from basil, my...

Definitely emigrated - emigrate is to leave, immigrate to arrive - pliers and screwdrivers may be immigrating to my toolbox, but my feckin' crimps have emigrated to parts unknown Still haven't plucked up the nerve to go and hunt down soldering iron or solder - one or other, or more likely both...

Why is it that the tools you one have one of and need right that moment grow little legs and run away? Wrenches? Loads of them, so they stay put Sockets? As above Pliers? Well, they breed anyway as I seem to have accumulating numbers and versions without buying any recently Screwdrivers...