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Quick Tool Review – Engineer PA-09 Crimping Pliers

Posted on October 9, 2017 The Engineer

For a while now I’ve been attaching terminals such as Molex KK Dupont, & JST PH to wire ends with a lot of patience & a very fine soldering iron, however this method takes a lot of time, and with terminals like Dupont types, the terminal won’t fit into the

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Tenma DMM Drivers & PC Software

Posted on November 15, 2016November 15, 2016 The Engineer

My new DMM I posted about a while back came with PC software & drivers for the RS-232 interface, on a CD. I haven’t used CDs for some time, so I had to dig out my USB drive. The Tenma website doesn’t list the software for all their models, so

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Tool Review – eBay Ratchet Cable Cutters

Posted on August 16, 2016August 4, 2016 The Engineer

For the latest big project, replacing the battery bank on the boat with 5 brand new 200Ah Yuasa heavy duty flooded lead acids, I’m going to need to make many short links from heavy battery cable to connect all 5 batteries into a parallel bank. Cutting cable as big in

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Tool Review – eBay Terminal Crimps

Posted on August 14, 2016August 4, 2016 The Engineer

I recently decided to restock my toolkit, as there are plenty of jobs I need to sort that require the use of crimp terminals, so eBay again came to the rescue. In my experience, cheap tools of any flavour are usually universally shite – I’ve had drill bits made out

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