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Hi!
I'd like to invite everybody to show off their equipment that is used for maintanance, cleaning, prodding and catching Ts and all the other stuff!
Would be fun to see the variety (if there is any) and to be impressed by the splendour of creativity so that one could get inspired when building his own tools of the trade :}
I have no fotos myself but it would be nice to see the array some of you must have!
I can describe tho what I've built so far and am planning on building:
Exibit A: The T catcher
I took the lid of a 50 CD-R box (of the spindle type), drilled a small hole in the middle of the top and then screwed a stick to it that is as long as my hand is whide. Now I have a very easy to use and compact and transluscent tool for capturing a medium sized T. But I also used the bottom fo the spindle - I cut off the center column right at the base. That created a hole in the center of the "bottom disk". I glued that shut. Now the box itself has its bottom and I can easily keep a T in there for 50 years if needed. There is no way out and the entire container is shut. Tho I drilled three holes in the lid for ventilation. The model CD-R box I used can be looked at here:
http://www.pixmania.com/es/es/38832/art/verbatim/spindle-de-50-cd-r-700-mb.html#
(I just took the next best link I found)
Exibit B: Pokie
As talked about in another thread I took a small plastic pensil and drilled a hole in the handle/shaft. There was already an existing hole, like in every tool you can hang up on the wall. Then I took like a short thin broom handle kinda piece of wood about 1½ ft long and screwed it to the brush. Now I have a long relatively bite safe T pushing tool.
Exibit C: Tweezy
I got myself a pair of 1½ ft long tweezers with a bent top.
Hm...what more?
I have the bottom of a large round candy box (used in stores) that is transluscent. I will be using that to capture the larger Ts eventually.
Exibit D: Sticksy
(out of ideas for names)
I use bbq sticks to do small maintenance work inside tanks and for longer reach I've taped two of them together...
Hm.. the latest ideas weren't really that fenomenal.. but there they are now anyway.
Oh, one more:
I use a 100ml syrringe to fill up the water dish or to just randomly destribute water on the substrate (Yes I know... bonedry substrate - but I do it anyway sometimes ) At times I attach a short... errrm short... what was that word again... :? well it's basically a tiny flexible rubber pipe thingy. Now you know what I mean! I attach that to the syrringe when I need a bit more reach.
I will invent a water dish made from spindle tops that will be easy to remove from the tank. I'll drill 2 holes in it near the upper edge so that it can be picked up with a long stiff piece of wire.
That's it for me for now.
I hope some of you do show off your own tools!
Thanks!
Cirith
I'd like to invite everybody to show off their equipment that is used for maintanance, cleaning, prodding and catching Ts and all the other stuff!
Would be fun to see the variety (if there is any) and to be impressed by the splendour of creativity so that one could get inspired when building his own tools of the trade :}
I have no fotos myself but it would be nice to see the array some of you must have!
I can describe tho what I've built so far and am planning on building:
Exibit A: The T catcher
I took the lid of a 50 CD-R box (of the spindle type), drilled a small hole in the middle of the top and then screwed a stick to it that is as long as my hand is whide. Now I have a very easy to use and compact and transluscent tool for capturing a medium sized T. But I also used the bottom fo the spindle - I cut off the center column right at the base. That created a hole in the center of the "bottom disk". I glued that shut. Now the box itself has its bottom and I can easily keep a T in there for 50 years if needed. There is no way out and the entire container is shut. Tho I drilled three holes in the lid for ventilation. The model CD-R box I used can be looked at here:
http://www.pixmania.com/es/es/38832/art/verbatim/spindle-de-50-cd-r-700-mb.html#
(I just took the next best link I found)
Exibit B: Pokie
As talked about in another thread I took a small plastic pensil and drilled a hole in the handle/shaft. There was already an existing hole, like in every tool you can hang up on the wall. Then I took like a short thin broom handle kinda piece of wood about 1½ ft long and screwed it to the brush. Now I have a long relatively bite safe T pushing tool.
Exibit C: Tweezy
I got myself a pair of 1½ ft long tweezers with a bent top.
Hm...what more?
I have the bottom of a large round candy box (used in stores) that is transluscent. I will be using that to capture the larger Ts eventually.
Exibit D: Sticksy
(out of ideas for names)I use bbq sticks to do small maintenance work inside tanks and for longer reach I've taped two of them together...
Hm.. the latest ideas weren't really that fenomenal.. but there they are now anyway.
Oh, one more:
I use a 100ml syrringe to fill up the water dish or to just randomly destribute water on the substrate (Yes I know... bonedry substrate - but I do it anyway sometimes
) At times I attach a short... errrm short... what was that word again... :? well it's basically a tiny flexible rubber pipe thingy. Now you know what I mean! I attach that to the syrringe when I need a bit more reach.I will invent a water dish made from spindle tops that will be easy to remove from the tank. I'll drill 2 holes in it near the upper edge so that it can be picked up with a long stiff piece of wire.
That's it for me for now.
I hope some of you do show off your own tools!
Thanks!
Cirith
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