Tag Archives: Tool

Aug
19
2012

Thoughts on a new ‘Car’

by Skippy

With FiFi (my brothers girlfriends old Ford Fiesta) being expensively broken fuel leak (out, air leak in) on the injector side of the top of the engine, and the gear box having lost Fifth and Reverse (push rods are moving at the gearbox end). With estimates for fixing FiFi ranging from £500 to £2k, GLaDOS [...]

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Aug
15
2012

My 3D printer

by Skippy

I have got the first parts of my Tantillus 3D printer, I got the outside parts lazered by Sham Glam (1st post). Here is the unboxing photos, these were taken at Swindon Hack Space, at the Swindon Museum of Computing: Just need to order some printed parts, and get the vitamins. I will keep my blog [...]

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Mar
20
2012

Tool Review – Dremel Gas Soldering Iron

by Skippy

I first used my Dremel soldering iron (Dremel Hobby VersaTip 6 in 1 Heat Tool) when I was fixing my Ignition, I have subsequently used it for soldering a load of corroded wires together to try and get Steph to work more consistently, and have been using it on my Affordable Accessible Mouse. When I [...]

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