Thursday, July 7, 2011

Cool Gadgets & Gizmos


Here's a photo of some cool stuff I scored from County Comm & the local thrift store:


Clockwise from top left corner:

•Metal storage tins, large and small, w/plastic covers. I like the smaller ones more. High cute factor, also very usable.
•Small driver, orange. High quality, with numerous heads stored in the grip. For small-ish screws.
•Israeli trauma bandage. For treating gunshot- or stab-wounds. The real thing. Expires in 2014.
•Plastic tube vaults. 1st one filled w/disposable towelettes, 2nd one filled w/new button compasses scored from the local East Bay Center for Creative Re-Use for a nickel each.
•Black Delrin safe, ie: a waterproof storage tube. Awesome to the extreme.
•Spool of black Spectra line, 90 lb test, 100 yards. Used for fishing nets, probably usable for repairing clothes & fabrics. The line could be cut into 1/3rds & the 1/3rds woven together to make a 100 ft-long, 270 lb "rope" that would be scarcely thicker than dental tape.
•Blue gun-cleaning stick. Small & not very strong, but inexpensive & usable.
•Black "cord supervisor". Something to wrap cord around, with a quality wire attachment clip.
•Black Delrin storage tubes, sized for AAA batteries & strung on a stainless wire key ring.
•Bag containing mini shears & OD plastic cord ends.
•New signal mirrors, purchased at the East Bay Center for Creative Re-Use for a quarter each.
•An Army robotics technician's key driver & 2 AA-sized Delrin storage tubes, strung on a stainless wire key ring.
•A micro-pen, a micro-pry bar, and a split pea Zippo-type lighter strung on a key ring.
•A wire key ring & an odd clip.

Cool shit, Maynard. If you add it all up, it wasn't cheap, but I'm not complaining. Some of it I'll use in the desert, some I'll keep in my day pack, some in my BOB. If I had to recommend anything above anything else, I'd say go for the Delrin containers & the drivers.

Peace out!

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