ENLIGHTENMENT

I started to think about the tools I used most often. And the one that comes to the front of the queue; the one gadget I use on pretty much every job is – drum roll please – the torch. No, not the gas-axe, the good old fashioned beam of light. It’s not that my workshop is dark, but when you’re beavering away, elbows-deep in the guts of something or other, being able to see is kind of fundamental to not welding across fuel lines or drilling holes in your own fingers. So I have all kinds of torches, normal stand-up ones, magnetic ones and even one that straps to my scone so it looks where I’m looking. A mate turned up the other day with a pair of reading glasses with two little bright LEDs built into the frames. Gotta have a pair of those now.