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From: life imitates life on 10 Feb 2010 20:00 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:31:18 -0500, "Rich." <rcres(a)XXcomcast.net> wrote: > >"DaveC" <invalid(a)invalid.net> wrote in message >news:0001HW.C7982CF900D218CEB08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>I used to own a pair of flush cutters where the jaws and the handles met at >> about a 45-degree angle. Made for a nice tool for getting in between >> components when you needed to nip something off flush with the PCB. > Jeez, for $27 plus tax and shipping? Damn. For about $5 more, you can simply buy the best steel in the world. Lindstrom. If you are putting out that much already, what is adding 5% for a twofold gain in quality? If you do not want to spend that much, the cheap Xcelite, and Plato brands, etc. are the right choice, and you shouldn't spend more than $12 each for a ten pack of them. Also worth it. If you are buying the cheaper brands, you should buy at least two, if not the ten pack, because they will wear due to the softer steels used. The Swiss brand will last forever or until you break them via some form of abuse or other.
From: Spehro Pefhany on 11 Feb 2010 04:57 On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:31:28 -0800, the renowned Fred Abse <excretatauris(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:54:40 -0800, life imitates life wrote: > >> The Lindstroms are worth the extra outlay if a long term, personal tool >> is desired. For a production level, multi-user tool, the lower quality >> steel, shorter life span brands are cheaper and are the better value for >> such a setting. It just depends on who the tool is for, how well they >> take care of their tools, and the term you wish the tool to last for. > >I've got Lindstroms that I've had 30 years. Look their age, but still work >as good as ever. The newer ones aren't as good, IMHO. > >Golden rule: Never, under any circumstances, lend cutters to *anyone*. >Never let them out of your sight / control. Amen to that. Otherwise they'll instantly find some piece of hardened music wire that needs to be snipped.. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff(a)interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
From: JW on 11 Feb 2010 05:00 On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:31:28 -0800 Fred Abse <excretatauris(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in Message id: <pan.2010.02.11.09.05.53.812957(a)invalid.invalid>: >I've got Lindstroms that I've had 30 years. Look their age, but still work >as good as ever. Ditto, but about 27 years and used almost daily. The best pair of cutters I've ever used. Does yours have yellow handles by any chance?
From: Greegor on 11 Feb 2010 05:38 On Feb 11, 2:39 am, Sansui Samari <jimjam1...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I cobbed a bunch of lindstrom cutters and pliers from a place I worked > at years ago. They were going belly up and tossed out boxes of the > things. I'm still using the few that I haven't given away or broken. > As long as you don't use them to cut steal (hence the broken cutters) > they are awesome. I wish I would have grabbed more. Were they going belly up because of buying only the finest, or despite of that? At the liquidation sales for some bankrupt companies, sometimes I have seen hard, tangeable evidence of WHY they went broke.
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 11 Feb 2010 06:49
Fred Abse wrote: > Golden rule: Never, under any circumstances, lend cutters to *anyone*. > Never let them out of your sight / control. That in my humble opionion is just plain silly. If you refuse to lend people tools when they ask, they wait until you are not looking and borrow them anyway. The best thing to do, IMHO is to buy several sets of medium grade tools, i.e. cheap but not the best. Still capable of doing the job, but nothing you would worry about if it came back unusable. Then you leave one set around for people to borrow and lend them out agressively. The good tools you keep locked up and never even let them know you have them. :-) I used to have a guy who worked for me part time who was constantly having his tools stolen. From screwdrivers to floor pullers. I just bought a bunch of screwdrivers for him and on his days off, I went around and collected them from where he left them. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia. |