Urgh, early in the workshop and first task to hand, cut 50 wires at 300mm, one by one it's a slow job. This little trick can help. Take some scrap cardboard a little longer than your final wire length, you can quickly wrap a large number of turns around the former....

Ideal Stripmaster wire strippers, fantastic tools. There is the classic tool frame which is a bit larger and can take stripping die sets with as many as 6 strip sizes. The newer stripmaster light fits very nicely in the hand, easier to get into detailed work, and...

Soldering tiny parts to a prototype PCB and the inevitable rework when the magic smoke escapes after that line of code did not quite go as expected, all part of the benchtop jobs in modern motorsport development. Not confident with tiny parts only a few mm across? We...

Service looping is a fiddly job at the best of times. For many years I have used tools designed for PCB re-work, you can modify them as you need, from a very fine point to grinding back to a snubbed nose. However, I was recently visiting the fantastic team at Project...

You have a short length of small diameter heat shrink that won't quite over your splice, this little tip allows you to gently stretch small diameter parts. Just insert your thin nose pliers or tweezers, then slide a flat blade screwdriver in between the blades, a...

Need to test your TPMS system on the bench? Oh..the sensors won't transmit any data if they are not inside a pressurised tyre. No problem, this trick is to place them in a brake cleaner pump bottle. Pressure them up and you can check sensors with a simple rig.