u/damagedispenser

I'm sure plenty of folks have posted similar, but i dont know how often you see the surge or a drill dyed. Royal purple. Lime green oil paint pen coming to hit the letters.

I bought a wera ra-r ratcheting driver a few months back. Loved it from the moment I opened it, but I'm sort of a stubborn old mule. It wouldn't fit where my klein 14 in 1 went in my mp2x thats on my belt or very near me 100% of my work day. I tried rearranging, putting the wera in a different slot, and for a lot of fellas I suppose that would be good enough. But I reach for my driver and it's not there, so I stop and think oh yeah I moved it, and by that time I'm already putting the klein back because of a silly creature comfort. The wera is clearly better in every way, except it doesn't fit where my primary driver goes.

This last Friday, I'm putting the cover back on a 12x12 outdoor enclosure after diagnosing and writing up parts list at alightning strike equipment failure. One of the nice ones with the sq2 bolts with the retainers on the lid. Second to last bolt, my sq1 sq2 flip comes out and hits the remarkably metallic Grey gravel. I looked for that thing for way longer than any man should look for a 2 dollar bit. It wasn't about the bit, it was the principle of the thing. I can't find it, so I walk back to the van and get a my sq2 dedicated driver out of the backpack. Put the last 2 cover bolts in, and i solemnly swore that I'm done with the garbage proprietary flip bit nonsense. I made it several years without losing one. Replaced a fair few ph2 singles cause I like a crisp ph2, but i always knew someday I'd lose one of those dumb shits. I can't get them locally, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna order a flip bit when a new driver is 20 bucks. Except they changed the design....the ph2 is on a flip of the ph1. I refer back to my crisp ph2 comment.

All that rambling to say that this stubborn mule made that CHUNKY wera slide down in the driver slot of the mp2x. I've seen a lot of guys say the wera drivers are cool but they're too fat to fit in a driver slot. That is correct out of the box, but through sheer stubbornness it is possible to make the thing go. It's snug, and that nylon(?) web ring is banjo tight, but nothing tore and after a stretch on the dash with a fat socket, then a bunch of gentle fucking with it, then some wax paper rubbing, i have achieved what nobody gives a shit about.

Now to order an evo mp2 and do it again... maybe. And also replace this klein security bit driver with flip nonsense maximum with a real tool.

I don't generally do point of sale work after structured cabling is done, but my latest client is a large restaurant and I've been tasked with getting data jacks down the cook line. 6 printers in total, 5 line stations and 1 expo on the other side.

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The reason I'm making a post is because every single bit of kitchen line data work I've ever seen sucked. I also was a chef once upon a time, and I've worked with some really crap ones myself.

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The challenge is that there is only one place the line touches the ceiling where the cabling is going to come from, once it's down it seems like there is nowhere reasonable to run a conduit run down the line, much less junction boxes to house the jack. The ceiling is drop, I've considered data jacks in the ceiling directly over the printers and patch cable down, but that seems weak. There's a gutter down the under side of the pass on the expo side for the heat lamp and receptacle power runs, but obviously I want nothing to do with that and even if I did, it's across the pass from where 5/6 of my printers are.

I've also considered running pieces of pipe down from the ceiling, which would sort of look like kitchen display pole mounts I guess, and just sort of hanging a jbox with a jack in it from the ceiling, but that also sounds whack.

Whats the play here gents? I'll edit here in a bit with a pic from the surveillance system of the line.

Edit: try not to hate on the cameras too bad, theyve been on the wall and rough aimed since before the kitchen equipment including that damn hood housing was installed. I haven't made it to that side of the joint to fix them yet.

https://imgur.com/a/sZ8VyZG

We can see both sides of the line there, including the gutter for the high volt that I accidentally left the cover off of (whoops.)

On the under side of the expo side of the food pass that gutter continues horizontally, and the boxes on the top of the expo side are the receptacles.