Christmas 06 Wish List
- High priority books or Medium or High priority music from my Amazon wishlist
- ThinkGeek WTF sweatshirt, XL
- ThinkGeek 2+2=5 t-shirt, XL
- ThinkGeek Pluto t-shirt, XL
- ThinkGeek USB Rocket Launcher
- Jumpstarter and Compressor for my car
- Jumper Cables for my car
- Canned air (I know it’s cheap and lame, but I use it all the time and I never seem to remember to get it for myself)
- OTIS Elite gun cleaning system
- Four bottles of OTIS bore solvent
- Two bottles of OTIS 2oz dry lube
- Medieval II Total War PC game
- FEAR PC game
- Call of Duty 2 PC game
- ColdHeat Pro soldering iron
- Tip Magnifier and 61 degree conical tip for ColdHeat pro
- Home tool kit. While I do already have one, it’s actually for my car; I took it out to support my various hardware projects, but that leaves me without coverage for my car. I’d like a more suitable toolkit for home, containing the following:
- Small DMM (don’t go overboard; just voltage/current/resistance/capacitance/inductance is fine)
- Needlenose, diag cut, bent nose, side cut pliers
- Sturdy tweezers, non-static
- Fine guage solder
- Small light, ideally with flexible neck, like this
- Hex, Torx, Phillips, Straight bits. A good example is here (though it’s missing hex bits)
- Driver for the above bits. A flexible neck is helpful
- Files
- Probes (sort of like the picks that dentists use)
- Solder brush
- Solder aid
- Wire stripper
- Mirror (again, like dentists use; must be static safe)
- Wire crimper/stripper/cutter
- If you get a pre-assembled kit with a case, the case should have some extra room for some of the items that won’t come with it, like the ColdHeat iron
- When looking at pre-assembled kit options, favor ones for electronics over more general field service, as electronics work requires smaller more delicate tools. See this master electronics tool kit as the canonical example, but don’t actually get this one (it’s too expensive). If in doubt, Seth should be able to advise.
- Micro butane torch, for heat shrink and solder work
- 60yd 100 MPH tape, black. I had a small roll of this w/ me in Iraq, and found all sorts of uses for it
- 2GB Sandisk Cruzer Titanium USB flash drive. NB: There are two versions of the 2GB titanum; the one I’ve linked to is the correct one, model number SDCZ7-2048-A10. You can tell the new model from its thinner, rectangular extension knob and boxier appearance. The older version, SDCZ3-2048-A10, is more rounded
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