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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPost a picture of your favorite little gadget.
If you don't have a favorite gadget, post your favorite gizmo.
Do you have a favorite little gizmo?
If you don't have a favorite gadget or gizmo, post your favorite doodad.
Please don't post any doohickeys or thingamabobs.
DO NOT POST ANY WHATCHAMACALLITS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Bmoboy
(665 posts)JoseBalow
(9,742 posts)
Sally Field was OK too, I give her second place

Ptah
(34,159 posts)
cloudbase
(6,316 posts)I've been using an identical one for over 35 years.
It's a set of iambic paddles for sending Morse code.
AllaN01Bear
(29,805 posts)mine

cloudbase
(6,316 posts)I got my first bug at a hamfest for $5. It wasn't a Vibroplex, though. Packed it away when I left for college and never found it again. Going to Dayton this year, and I think I'm going to pick up one of N3ZN's wonderful creations. I think it'll be this one:
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Love the Begali paddles. They're works of art, but I think overpriced. Great feel, though.
I've got the Bencher as well as a Magnakeyer.
73.
AllaN01Bear
(29,805 posts)Niagara
(12,128 posts)
mysteryowl
(9,350 posts)The best tool ever! I use it all the time to move stuff. Stuff like the groceries from the garage that is a long walk to the house. Moving gardening stuff like wood chips, bags of soil and planters. Best money ever spent. It saves my back!
Marthe48
(23,453 posts)I couldn't get anything done until I got a round tuit
lastlib
(28,621 posts)I think it nullifies your round tuit.
AllaN01Bear
(29,805 posts)a kennedy
(36,351 posts)I need a hand opener, not a mechanical one, which one do you have. Thanks.
AllaN01Bear
(29,805 posts)
lastlib
(28,621 posts)
Question, Lucky--are dunsels and blivets OK to post?
AllaN01Bear
(29,805 posts)
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