NOOO, Bertie is missing!!

[ColJack]

My favourite bit of wire is missing..
he's brown, about 18 inches in length, flexible and has a bit of red tape about 2/3 of the way from one end..

I noticed today as I was sorting out my tool boxes than the bit of wire I've had in the bottom of my toolbox for nearly as long as I've been left from school, is missing..

one of the lecturers at college told me that "you'll always need a bit of wire for something", so I took him on his word and it's been the best bit of advice I was ever given..
it's usefull for all sorts of things.. testing and fault finding to name but two..

it did start out life about a meter and a half long, but he shrank as needs must when permanent repairs needed a bit..

 

[mark1878]

Sorting out your toolbox???? So you've been snowed in too?

I hope you find Bertie soon, he can’t have got far.

I once meet a lad who named all his tools. “Oh that’s Elisabeth my no 2 pozi, and that’s William the ratchet driver” he’d say. Looking at him you wouldn’t have thought he was completely mad, but there ya go.

 

[Taylortwocities]

I've got an 18" length of brown wire here, but I do not think that it is Bertie.

The red tape on this piece is 1/3 from one end

 

[ColJack]

would that be the bootlaced end or the non bootlaced end?

 

[securespark]

I have a rather large screwdriver, general duties type tool (!) and I call it Big Bertha....

 

[ban-all-sheds]

My lawnmower has got a name, but that's about it...

 

[Donkmeister]

ME USE ONE TOOL FOR ALL JOBS. ME USE HAMMER.

 

[Taylortwocities]

would that be the bootlaced end or the non bootlaced end?

Yes

 

[RF Lighting]

I have a rather large screwdriver, general duties type tool (!) and I call it Big Bertha....

My file is called Peter

 

[Trog]

I really think you sparks should try to avoid breathing the fumes while soldering.


But as the proud owner of a nearly thirty year old home made cross level, I am probably as bad.

 

[tim west]

don't know about a bernie brown but there's a bernard green on here

 

[bernardgreen]

don't know about a bernie brown but there's a bernard green on here

who once had a five yard length of 8 core cable recovered from his dad's office when the new telephones were installed. I was about 6 at the time and that piece of cable was one of the best things in my electrical toy box ( or rather educational and career development kit. )