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Interesting stuff elsewhere

Interesting stuff elsewhere.
Sharing a small portion of my bookmarks.

FairLötet (Recycled solder, produced by Stannol) 

Free service manuals - Netherlands based, lots of Philips manuals and schematics

Jeremy Fielding on YouTube

Knipex - Die Zangenmarke
(Other excellent electronics pliers are made by Lindström or Swiss made Erem)

Lowtech magazine

Made Good (.bikes .films)

M-gineering frame builder (Dutch)

MonkeyShred on YouTube

Oude Transportfiets (Dutch)

PB Swiss Tools 
(Other excellent screwdrivers are made by German/Czech made Wera, or a bit cheaper by Felo or German/Poland/Vietnam made Wiha. I guess Felo produces the screwdrivers for Hazet, considering the striking similarities in the designs) 

Pieter Tweepenninckx on YouTube (Flemish)

Sheldon Brown Bicycle Technical Info

The Post Apocalyptic Inventor on YouTube

The Vinyl Engine - The Home of the Turntable

Unior Bicycle tools

Vallorbe (Swiss Made files)
Vallorbe also sells the GLARDON branded files, as their premium brand.

VAR bicycle tools

De Velotarier (Flemish)

Fietsenmakendoejezelf (Dutch)
Website by Benn Veninga, he also has a youtube channel. After he opened a new shop not many videos were posted to the youtube channel. He also runs an online shop, budgetfietsonderdelen.nl for cheap bicycle parts.

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