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Tool-Loving Installers Share Their Best Tips
Installers love their tools and tool bags, and you’ll find some of the liveliest discussions at RemoteCentral.com, where dealers talk bags, lasers, drill bits, and a $5.99 life saver.
Petzl Tikka 2 headlamp (available Dec. 2012)
One of the best places to chat about tools and other toys of the trade is to head to the Installers’ Lounge on RemoteCentral.com.
We’ve rounded up some of the liveliest, most informative threads for tool-loving installers.
Click on the headlines to read the complete thread.
How many of you guys use a siding “zip tool” to run wires?
A whole thread about a $5.99 SideSwiper siding removal tool from Malco. One dealer says, the piece “has become one of my most favored tools in the bag.” It’s a must-have where vinyl siding is present. (Why haven’t the cable guys discovered this tool?)
Plasma fell off a brick wall
Integrators discuss the best tools and techniques for mounting big TVs to brick walls … after a DIY job goes bad.
Laser tool you like?
Lots of good discussion on laser tools, including this comment: “These things are like Facebook for me, I just don’t grasp it.”
One dealer says he can’t believe he ever lived so long without a Bosch GLL 3-80 with telescopic pole accessory.
Bosch laser tool
Best tool Bag Ever!
Boys show off their toys. The tool bag in the title refers to the VetoPro XL, which Blog Mobster Mac Burks reviewed for CE Pro earlier in 2012. The thread includes discussions of tools as well. One dealer swears by this Tikka four-LED headlamp from Petzl.
Conduit without pull string
A dealer seeks advice on dropping pull string through a 1,000-foot run of conduit. The responses are extremely creative and amusing - suction, water, leaf blowers, and furry critters to name a few.
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Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.
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@ Mark
What are you talking about? Julie is a regular member over at RC, i dont think shes stealing anything, just consolidated. And im sure she has permission from Daniel Tonks (owner of RC) to be able to use links since they have a direct feed of news articles at the top of the page.
Even if she didnt she is doing nothing more then giving an excerpt of what was said and links TO THE THREADS. Jesus, grow up.
??? Post is a tribute to RC.com and I hope it inspires dealers to visit and participate in the site.
I really liked this article! great and fun information. Useful links are hard to come!
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Im surprised that there are not any negative comments on how you are stealing material from other sources.
Either you JUST posted the article or everyone is off for the holidays. lol