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  • My current favourite tool is my makita air gun. It’s brilliant for drying chains after washing with degreaser before relubing. I hate spraying water displacer like wd40 around bikes with disc brakes and this saves me from having to do so.

  • The makita is cordless and much more powerful. It means I can dry the chain outdoors as I built a rack for bike washing by my outdoor taps.

  • what's wrong with the partner's hair dryer ?

    I've been considering a cordless heat gun; being tethered to mains sucks a lot more than you might realise.

    When I got a TS100 (these days go for a Pinecil) it was a game-changer, before I even realised how much better I could make it by adding a switch to my battery clip to be able to chuck out the full 20V instead of the regulated 12V it came with. And when I found a hot glue gun on Temu to clip onto my DeWalt batteries, another definite game-changer.

    It's a whole new world in the same way that a miscellaneous collection of bits and bobs is all but useless jumbled in a box up on a shelf, but once you put a day or two into into sorting it, all those screws and springs and whatnots you thought would come in handy one day actually can.

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