Re: pointless gadgets [link]

In message <op.u44w8crnhswpfo@dell3100>, Esra Sdrawkcab <admin@xxxxxxxxx> writes
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:43:07 -0000, Skipweasel <skipweasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A jump start rarely provides sufficient juice to actually start the car
unless like me you have 10mm² leads with really strong crocs. Generally
it just warms the battery enough to get the electrochemystery working
enough to cope.

I've got tractor starting leads - heavy but effective.

I hfr a pair of very heavy welding cables, about half an inch thick but still flexible, to which are attached very large clips. They have qbar the wbo, when required, for around 800 fortnights now.
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