There has been an interesting focus lately on tools and work benches. I think it would be intriguing to have members show pictures of the weirdest or most unusual or most useless tools in their kit.
Do you have a convoluted screw driver or a set of misshapen pliers or a Smith chart slide rule or an abacus with a digital readout or a combination magnet/flashlight/scalpel? If so please share....
When I started this discussion I figured I could just scan through my eclectic collection of tools and pick out some really weird ones to photograph, but when I look at my tool collection I just see normal utilitarian tools. Perhaps others would find some of them weird, but to me they all have a purpose and a reason for being in the box. I did come across a little meter (made in the USA) that I have no idea where I got it and don't even remember seeing it before:
It has no power supply, so I took a look inside:
It just has a 3.9K resistor and what looks like a fancy diode across a galvanometer. It appears the leads are formed to act like an antenna. It is probably true that if the meter shows danger there is an unhealthy level of radiation. My cell phone and microwave oven can't budge the needle, but the voltage applied by my meter to measure the resistance will pin the needle.
When I started this discussion I figured I could just scan through my eclectic collection of tools and pick out some really weird ones to photograph, but when I look at my tool collection I just see normal utilitarian tools. Perhaps others would find some of them weird, but to me they all have a purpose and a reason for being in the box. I did come across a little meter (made in the USA) that I have no idea where I got it and don't even remember seeing it before:
It has no power supply, so I took a look inside:
It just has a 3.9K resistor and what looks like a fancy diode across a galvanometer. It appears the leads are formed to act like an antenna. It is probably true that if the meter shows danger there is an unhealthy level of radiation. My cell phone and microwave oven can't budge the needle, but the voltage applied by my meter to measure the resistance will pin the needle.
