Ten Things for your shack each costing less than $10. Ready to use, no technical content, no detailed need for pre-implementation preparation, no assembly or soldering required and no ham skills that must be acquired. (A perfect set of requirements for meeting the skill set level of a newly minted Extra Class Licensee)
Under the new Flash The Cash template you have to do some of the work. Go to Amazon and type in Electronic Tools and you can find all of these items.
Stripper/Cutter ~ $7.99
Digital Calipers ~ $6.88
Tweezer set ~ $5.99
Test Leads ~$5.99
Pry Open Tools ~ $9.99
Mini Pliers ~ $9.49
Soldering Set (For Repairs Only) ~ $9.99
The Third Hand ~ $9.94
While many of the tools appear to cater to the ardent homebrewer, they have general applicability like when you need to open up your Cell Phone, Alexa, Computer, Tablet or Smart Watch. You are covered even when the XYL or girlfriend goobers up the lock on her jewelry box.
[BTW less tax and shipping, the cost for these 10 items is $84.01. Give this list to your XYL, GF or Partner and this could fill your Christmas stocking with usable stuff. Careful don't give the XYL and GF the same list as you'll end up with 2 sets of everything.
Just think that during the Crusades a set of tools like this would have been a boon to the average neighborhood Lothario as an aid in opening locked Chasity Belts. Excellent technology, regrettably just a few centuries too late for our Lothario. Interesting note is that the word Lothario finds it roots from the Italian. Here all along you thought Michaelangelo was just a good painter. ]
Them that know... know how to Flash the Cash.
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