Some Of My Favorite Stuff!

It's time to get off the soap box and offer a little practical advice. Whether you're the station engineer...or the GM who needs to do some minor repairs on to the door knob on occasion...here are a couple of item's I'd recommend. I have a big box full of tools...but if I had to choose one tool kit it would be the little hand-held Radio Shack Deluxe Computer Toolkit with zipper case. (Cat. No. 64-1990, I'm not sure if they still sell this particular one or not). It contains a couple of flat and a couple of phillips screwdrivers, a tweezers, a part retriever, a chip puller which I love, a chip inserter which I've never used, a couple of computer-size nut drivers and a plastic tube with a cover for keeping track of parts. That kit, in conjunction with my Ace Hardware GDT-190A 19-range multi-tester (which is my all-time favorite digital meter at a cost of about $18.00) will solve a lot of problems. Add a wire cutter, a needle-nose pliers a soldering gun (my Radio Shack 100-watt model is my favorite) and a roll of solder.....you're set to take on just about every problem that arises...unless, of course, you have to change some bolts in the tower or something like that. I'm talking about approximately fifty-bucks worth of tools here. I think just about every station can fit that into the budget.