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2022 Tool guide

Dec 26, 2022

A few short words about the tools I have found and bought in 2022.

Shotgun kids bike seat


Perhaps my best purchase of the year. Spare 20 minutes, jump on the bike and go for a ride around the neighbourhood. My boy always asks for more bike rides. I got the base model without the handle bar.


Multigrips


This year I finally bought myself a large pair of multigrips. The kind of expensive tool you dont need everyday but when you do it's the only thing for the job. They are NWS which I hadnt heard of before but they have the 'Made in Germany' branding so they must be good (right?!). The model I got was the 400mm which have an 100mm opening. I used these for tightening plumbing fittings and loosening big bolts. I got mine from Bunnings.

Low profile screw drivers


Another one of those specialty tools. A set of 5 low profile screw drivers. I used these to adjust my kitchen doors where the space between the sink and the hinge is just big enough for one of these to squeeze in.

Reeder 5


After years of hearing about the good old days of RSS reading I finally am giving it a go. A lot of the value I get from a sites like twitter and hackernews is that I can see interesting articles when people post them. This removes one layer so I can go directly to the source. It doesnt have discovery built in, but I think thats ok. Available here

Casio wrist watch


In an effort to reduce using my phone as my watch I bought the F91W-1. They are cheap, reliable and I think look good.

Here is where it gets fun, you can swap out the board with this replacement and add hardware and/or write your own software. Fingers crossed I get to this project in 2023.