With working on the new house and fixing the van kingpins, I've been kinda busy. More significantly, I've been going over things I've posted on this thread, organizing and rewriting them into articles suitable for publication in a magazine. (Umpteen pages ago, I said using this thread as a scratchboard/notebook for this purpose was one of the reasons I was posting stuff.)
One of the new things for the articles (I have two final drafts and working on the third article in a series now) is --
These are what I recommend (and use) as the primary tools for electrical systems work. The first four (left to right) are representative of what I started with decades ago and all six are what I reach for most often when working on motor vehicle (and boat) electrical systems currently.
The needle-nose pliers (on the left) are a half century old and the ones I actually used back in 1973, when I completely gutted all the wiring in my '49 Int'l Metro step van and rewired it bumper to bumper.
