[CAUT] monkey hanger

[John Ross]

You don't pass any hardware stores on your way to work, or home.
I don't know how that would take much driving around.
You should already have small cost tools like that. As someone else said, 
the hangers on uprights are another use.
I have a small clamp on vice as well.
Then again, I might have been at it longer than you, because, when I started 
I didn't have a lot of tools.
Now I have too many, as I just 'think' I might need it.
John Ross,
Windsor, Nova Scotia.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Tanner" <tannertuner at bellsouth.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] monkey hanger



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ross" <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca>


> But for the independent in the field, buy a torch, my mini torch was
> around
> $20, solder and flux around $5.

Yes, and shopping for those at $65/hour, or whatever your rate is, plus
taking the part back to the shop where you have a vice, etc.  It really
doesn't take long to run up $150 worth of effort.

> I bet a customer would not appreciate you buying a new rod, and the wait.
> It might make them think that you weren't a real technician. :-)   :-)
> It was an easy fix.

Seriously, I couldn't get the wire to stay in place while I tried to heat
the solder.  I also figured if I get it only slightly out of alignment, it
wouldn't work right and I'd wind up still having to order one anyway.  Been
a while, so my recollection is fuzzy. But for me at the time, ordering a new
one was the option that made the most sense.

Tanner