Alt text: “How could anyone consider themselves a well-rounded adult without a basic understanding of silicate geochemistry? Silicates are everywhere! It’s hard to throw a rock without throwing one!”

Need a font? Just make your own. Turn your handwriting into its own font. Problem solved.

Man I wish I had handwriting that nice

I mean, I get it, but what is this from?

Pass throughs cost a little more, but the time you save is 100% worth it. When you feed the wires into the head they come out the front so you can check the color code and the crimper trims them perfectly to length. So much easier than trying to trim the wires to the perfect length and peaking through the head to see if they lined up right.

Here’s what I have in my pack and think covers about everything you’d need to do most anything.

• Klein VDV226-110 RJ45 Pass Through Crimp Tool
• Klein VDV226-011 RJ45/RJ11 Ratcheting Crimper
• Klein 21010-6 Free Fall Snips
• • Alternatively: Milwaukee Electrician Snips
• Fluke PRO3000F60 Tone and Probe kit w/ 60Hz filter
• • Alternatively: TEMPO 701K-G Tone and Probe
• Klein VDV501-851 Scout Pro 3
• • Alternatively Klein VDV526-200 Scout Pro Jr.
• Klein VDV427-300 Impact Punchdown 66/100
• • Note: doesn’t include a no cut blade, order one separately on Amazon.
• Milwaukee 9-in-1 ratcheting screwdriver
• Milwaukee 6 Piece Precision screwdriver set
• Milwaukee Flush Cutters
• Klein CL600 Digital Clamp Multi Meter
• • Alternatively Klein MM600 Digital Auto Ranging Multi Meter
• Klein NCVT1P Non-Contact Voltage Detector

Plus a good inspection flashlight. Milwaukee and Klein have some good ones of different kinds.

You could also buy some Klein or Milwaukee cable strippers, but I find I use my snips more often.

I’d also recommend getting a pair of Klein or Milwaukee Lineman’s Pliers with the fish tape channel. Super useful for a number of things, like banging on stuff or reaming pipes/sleeves.

Note that I list two different RJ45 crimp tools. One is for standard RJ45 heads, the other is for pass through heads. The one for pass throughs only works on pass throughs as it has a cutting edge at the end of the head that will hit and nick the end of a regular RJ45. Personally I own both, but I always buy pass throughs as they save time.

Not necessary, but useful to have depending on what you do:

• Fluke TS19 Telephone Test Set

Yeah that makes more sense. Thought the MMO by the same name from many years back was making a return for a second.

That’s because this image is dated af.

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Linus Torvalds porn, however, does not. But hey whatever floats your boat.

Man… I get the inspiration for the sites name, but Piped absolutely sounds like it’s a porn website.

Hell yeah! It’s one of my favorite games. It’s in my desk drawer next to me. Not sure where the 2nd game is right now tho. I’m a big fan of how you get to play the story line from two different perspectives. I also like the whole djinn system that lets you change how your characters are spec’d and they’re attack styles.

TraSH Guides is the best. Can’t recommend it enough