Threading needles for the hamfisted.

[tombear]

Being of the sausage fingered variety I sometimes have trouble threading needles. You can get devices to help but I tend to break or lose them and anyroad they cost money.

heres a simple modification to a quick un pick that I've found very useful. It's just some suitably gauged fuse wire trapped under the lid of the unpicker. When it snaps you simply remove the lid, pull out some more wire, put a bend it it and trap both ends under the lid again.

ATB

Tom

 

[Toddy]

Nice one That's a tidy diy tool

I've resorted to pestering one of the menfolks to solder the wires into the needle threaders and even then they don't last. Cheap and cheerful 'happy lucky flying chicken factory' stuff again One of my Mother's (and she'd dead nearly forty years) is still going strong though.

atb,
M

 

[Hog On Ice]

good idea - I recently busted my last threader so I'll see if I can make this work

 

[rik_uk3]

You tight gits, 10 for a quid on ebay lol

 

[Toddy]

Yeah, and they break every damned time they're used
It's not the cost; it's the complete frustration and inconvenience of the thrice damned things

M

 

[tombear]

Yup bought a pack in a pound shop and they didn't even last one session, also with my paws those little silver foil things are fiddly so a nice chunky handle suits me fine.

He said defensively ....

atb

tom

 

[bilmo-p5]

You tight gits, 10 for a quid on ebay lol

Blimey, that's a bit steep.