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  • Pointless gadget of the day

    You know how you sometimes see something and think "Wow! That's awesome!" and then you get home and think "Why of earth did I buy this?"

    I bring you the LED spanner!









    It's shiny, OE and ratchet ringy with a LED!

    Impulse buys will be the death of me someday.

    Pete
    79 MK1 Golf Wreck to Race / 79 MK1 Golf The Red Thread / 76 MK1 Golf Kamei Race Car
    7? MK1 Caddy
    79 B1 Passat Dasher Project
    12 Amarok

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    I want an LED in a magnet that I can stick to the shaft of a screwdriver or the length of a spanner like this, but able to transfer it from tool to tool - how often I can't see what I am doing because it is dark is annoying.

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    • #3
      I reckon that could be a handy spanner to carry in the rally car Pete. Night time rally, have a problem, forgot the torch, no worries still see what your doing. May be if I had a full set I wouldn't need a torch. That would make make it lighter ( LOL ) so we could go faster. ... Cheers .... Geoff

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      • #4
        I'm a "visualise with feel" kinda guy so that sort of stuff never grabs my attention. I guess it would be handy in some situations though. And a 13mm will just about soley disassemble half a Mk1 so it's a good size..

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        • #5
          buy a head lamp
          2007 Audi RS4 with: APR ECU Upgrade; JHM Quick Shifter; Milltek Catback and Downpipes; KW V3 Coilovers; Argon Creative Carbon Fibre Splitters

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          • #6
            Originally posted by mikinoz View Post
            I want an LED in a magnet that I can stick to the shaft of a screwdriver or the length of a spanner like this, but able to transfer it from tool to tool - how often I can't see what I am doing because it is dark is annoying.

            You can buy very small led lights these days. If you get one with a switch that stays on that you can glue a couple of small strong magnets to you'd be set. I suggest you get one with replaceable batteries though, if it works well and you like it you might use it a lot (or even just forget to switch it off sometime).

            No charge or patent for the idea (I like to se my IP used )

            Originally posted by gareth_oau View Post
            buy a head lamp
            If you want a good (but somewhat expensive) headlamp for working on cars I suggest you look at a Zebralight H501. I've got one and it is brilliant - totally flood illumination, so good even light just in front of you where you need it (but very little throw - if you need to see things more than 10 feet away buy something else). It's very small and light, and runs on rechargeable AAs (Nimh).
            Last edited by Arctra; 12-12-2009, 02:50 AM. Reason: Consecutive posts merged
            2017 MY18 Golf R 7.5 Wolfsburg wagon (boring white) delivered 21 Sep 2017, 2008 Octavia vRS wagon 2.0 TFSI 6M (bright yellow), 2006 T5 Transporter van 2.5 TDI 6M (gone but not forgotten).

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              Banana slicer. I win.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by getjet View Post
                I noticed they have made it suit a Caribbean Bananas but it works with Queensland Bananas too.


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                • #9
                  Originally posted by getjet View Post
                  Banana slicer. I win.
                  Don't start something you can't finish.



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                  Pete
                  79 MK1 Golf Wreck to Race / 79 MK1 Golf The Red Thread / 76 MK1 Golf Kamei Race Car
                  7? MK1 Caddy
                  79 B1 Passat Dasher Project
                  12 Amarok

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                  • #10
                    christ theres some lazy people out there. funnily enough when i was working in industrial kitchens, going to cut a banana ment you were going to take a dump...........yep i know everyone is going to sleep better tonight knowing that.
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