Hama PC Tool Kit (Standard)
Hama PC Tool Kit (Standard)
Customer Review: Well presented, good value, but a bit superfluous
POSITIVE SIDE: There is a decent variety of well-made tools presented here in a neat wallet and they should do for all but the most sophisticated p.c. tasks. They range from nut/bolt ’spinners’, 2 cross-head and 2 plain screwdrivers to tweezers and a ‘grab’ for reaching small parts which you may have dropped. I only bought the kit to change a soundcard, but it may well have future uses.
NEGATIVE SIDE: The nut/bolt ’spinners’ can probably be dispensed with, since most bolts holding p.c. cases together tend to have a crosshead incorporated. The tweezers were metal. Looks good, but a bad idea inside a p.c. Should have been plastic medical forceps. Similarly (but MUCH worse), there was a handle for holding the replaceable metal bits (like screwdriver tips) that can be fitted into power drills. In my kit, the handle and the bit were VERY magnetic - tut, tut. Good job I left it in the wallet. Well, there was no reason to put it in the p.c., since the end looked like it started off life as a miniature Allen key, but had been ground down so badly that it had precious little shape remaining. [By whom, I wonder?]
A large plastic “test tube” is included, presumably for momentarily storing VERY small parts (bit of a no-brainer, I think).
As it was, I managed the soundcard replacement with one cross-head screwdriver I already had, but the kit may well come in handy in the future, so I won’t write it off yet. I would ditch the magnetic tool and the nut spinners and incorporate a basic anti-static wrist band.
Customer Review: GRUNTFUTTOCK
EXCELLENT ITEM AND WILL USE AGAIN WHEN REQUIRED. IDEAL FOR HAPPY AMATEUR LIKE ME
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Customer Review: A really useable D I Y book
Handily it’s pocket size. It is a rather thick little book but one has to expect that for it’s wealth of information. In A-Z fromat it can give you blow by blow instructions on everthing from changing the taps on your bath tub to retiling the house. Most other DIY manuals give you much the same and I have yet to across a poor one, to be honest, but this shrunken format is the joy. One hardly has time to sit with a glossy hardback in the middle of a building site after all!
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