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Gar's Tips & Tools - Issue #154 Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. I was thrilled to discover this shout-out from Kevin Kelly in a recent Recomendo. Maker tips: I continue to be impressed by Gar’s Tips & Tools, a newsletter that we co-publish with Gareth Branwyn. I got a big bump in subscribers after this. For years, I saw other people, like my pal Kent Barnes, recommending alignment dots for mindlessly mating a jack to a plug without having to align the exact location or figure out the plug orientation. One of the most-requested projects I get asked about are DIY rolly cabinets for storing portable parts organizer cases, popular among makers. Several weeks ago, I got a message from a subscriber saying that they couldn’t believe I hadn’t written about Tim Hunkin’s latest series, The Secret Life of Components. In this thorough video and written guide, Erin St. Reader Chuck writes:

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Consumer Ratings and Reviews on RateItAll.com TasteKid Cool Tools Access to tools, techniques, and shop tales from the diverse worlds of DIY Food tips too good not to share Ramen noodles are often a punchline in jokes about poor college students, singles eating over the sink, and starving artists. It may sound a little corny to admit, but for me, they’ve become a daily restorative ritual that I’ve come to rely on. Every day for lunch, I microwave a cup of Dr. Every now and then, a book comes along that captures a whole subculture within the pages of a modest paperback. First published in the early 1980s, The Bedside Reader is a legendary collection of machining lore, shop tips, clever workholding tricks, and war stories from the world of lathes, mills, and surface plates. What makes Lautard’s book special isn’t just the tips (though there are hundreds of excellent ones), but the way it invites you into the mindset of a maker always looking for a better, smarter way. But, the real shocker?