Comments by "deezel_fairy" (@deezelfairy) on "HumbleMechanic" channel.

  1. A resistance test is best but with a milli-ohm meter but these are mega expensive and only carry out resistance checks so a one trick pony. Digital multimeters only inject a few micro-amps of current so they suck at 'low resistance' readings. A 14awg wire is in the range of 2 milliohms (0.002 ohms) per meter. Remember, all your multimeter does every time you use the ohms setting is a voltage drop test, that's how it calculates resistance just with a few volts and a few microamps. A milli/micro ohm meter injects anything from 100mA to 100A through a circuit. Unless your prepared to sink anything from £700 to £5k into a milli/micro ohm meter stick to the live circuit voltage drop test.
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  2. Ted Bonbrake SPOT ON! Im a forklift tech and 90% of it is done at the customers premises - so every job is a waiter! One of my many mentors taught me exactly as you said. 'How long it gonna take, I've got trucks to load'. If it's a 2hr job I say 3hr, if it's a 5hr job I say all day. They protest at first, you stick to your guns and they get over it fast. When you completed the '3hr' job in 2hr's your the best thing since sliced bread. The other way round you instantly become the biggest wanker on the face of the planet.
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  3. rhkips Being a field tech is very different, you get very 'resourceful'. Worked on forklifts all my career so it's 90% field work, it's definitely whatever you gotta do to get the job done. If that socket is just the right size to fit down that bore snug and catch the edge of that bearing race to knock it out it's getting used! 😂 😂 Your not on your own! I'd never try to get warranty on a tool I'd abused, always thought it ain't that far away from stealing really.
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  4. If I had a row with my boss and he rolled all my tools out into the rain I'd probably be in prison. People don't realise how precious tools are to a mechanic, there literally as precious as your limbs! We I live a couple a years ago we were at real risk of being flooded, said to my girlfriend that if it happens priority no. 1 is to get my works van (with my tools in) to high ground. She was furious, 'so sod our house and belongings'. I explained that if I've got the tools doesn't matter what we loose, I can earn the money to replace it, without them we're screwed.
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