I used to fight with old wire bundles for hours before I got a cheap tool

Back when I was at a regional shop in Omaha, we'd spend a whole morning just trying to separate and trace wires in a tight avionics bay. We used picks and our fingers, and it was a real pain. About two years ago, a guy showed me a plastic wire comb he got for maybe 12 bucks from an electronics supplier. Now I use it for any harness work. It slides between the wires without nicking the insulation and saves so much time. Has anyone else found a simple tool that changed a routine job for them?

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3 Comments

shane65515d ago

Cheap tools often solve the biggest headaches.

annawebb15d ago

Oh man, tell me about it. I've wasted so much time trying to make the "good" tool work when a five dollar thing from the hardware store would have done it in two minutes.

avery_lopez3d ago

Honestly, @shane655 is right about cheap tools fixing big problems. It's like that with so many little things, you overthink it when the simple fix is right there.