RE: [OT] Need help finding a tool...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

:-D What's great about this is that so many little usefull tools are
popping
up!

I think mine was (probably) a version of a spring tool although the hook
end
was more like a shepherds crook than the stylised "S" of the
spring tool
that Andy pointed out. Bloody close though.

Worst of all is that now I know I don't have this little whatever-it-was in
my bag I actually feel as though I've "lost" something (like
losing a pet -
a proper "empty" feeling) rather than just like - say - losing a
quid that
you thought you had in your pocket (just an annoyance) - it's been *THAT*
usefull!*

Phil

(*of course for the Scots then exchange the two examples I have given and
you'll better understand what I'm trying to say. :-P )

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ian Lowe
> Sent: 04 July 2005 00:11
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Need help finding a tool...
>
> I used to have one of those (or at least something very
> similar) that was a multipurpose snagging tool for fishing
> around inside things for dropped screws, loose bits of wire,
> you name it - incredibly useful.
>
> As I recall, mine came from the toolkit for my mother's
> sewing machine, and one end (the hook end) had a little flap
> that meant you could push it into an enclosed space, but when
> you pulled it back out, it closed over the loop, and didn't
> catch on the edges.
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> I can think of a half dozen jobs that would make easier
> roundabout now :D
>
> Ian.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 03 July 2005 23:31
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Need help finding a tool...
>
>
> That seems pretty damn close ... I've also had suggestions of
> a "mechanics pick" which are similar(ish).
>
> Thanks
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>
> > Of Andrew Kilgore
> > Sent: 03 July 2005 23:21
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Need help finding a tool...
> >
> > Hi Phil,
> >
> > Anything like this...?
> > http://tinyurl.com/75q7v
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andy.
> >
> >
> > On 7/3/05, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > ... About ten years ago I was given a little hand tool by a
> > friend who
> > > is no longer around. He described it as "probably the
> most usefull
> > > tool you'll ever have" and he was right - it has gone
> *EVERYWHERE*
> > > with me since. It was pretty much a simple wire hook made
> > from a piece
> > > of small diameter tapered steel about 2-3mm diameter at its
> > thickest
> > > with a large thumb-loop at one end and a specially shaped
> > hook at the
> > > other (tapered) end. The trick in the tail was that the
> hook had a
> > > little extra bit on the end of it which is almost impossible
to
> > > describe in words but maybe I could knock up in a diagram.
> > >
> > > Anyway ... Sometime over the last month or so it seems my
> > little tool
> > > has gone walkabout and I would *DEARLY* love to find
> > another. Whilst I
> > > had it I had taken it to various places to see if they
> > could identify
> > > what it was (craft shops, needlework shops, crochet shops
etc,
> > > handicraft shops, fishing shops etc.) and no-one was able
> > to identify it.
> > >
> > > Is there anyone that thinks they might be able to have a
shot at
> > > identifying what it actually was? If you think you might
> > know then can
> > > you drop me an email off-list and I'll try to knock up a
little
> > > drawing of it for you to take a look at.
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
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