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....
I found a weird tool in my lab. In-house made by a bachelor student 20 years ago.
but now it has been rendered pretty much useless.
Designed to strain the pins of through hole components before soldering.
yes I can totally understand. Even today the DIP packaging has angled rails on the sides for the pins which are not exactly 90 deg but extended.
I will have to say that I did use this tool a few times whenever I had a DIP device to do some quick soldering and prototyping.
