Eye catching.

We have had quite an action packed couple of weeks, the World cup has almost come full circle, lest we mention SA's most hated ref Bryce Lawrence (what a &*&#*^), The Dalai Lama has been snubbed and now the death of the Apple Icon-  Steve Job's. Incidentlally we have found a great video of a speech he gave in 2005, it's a must watch. It's only had 11 miillion views so far.

We have just redone our BEE rating and we are very happy to announce head office obtained a level 2 contributor status, with all the other offices level 3.  Should you need a copy of the certificate please don't hessitate to go here

With a picture of two blondes below I'm guessing you have stopped reading already..

The hearts of the nation’s technicians were all of a flutter this month, as the C.K Magma Hit Squad made promotional movies and advertising material.  But surprisingly, it wasn’t the gorgeous girls that caught the eyes of tradesmen and merchants – it was the new  C.K Magma range of premium storage and PPE equipment they were promoting.The C.K Magma girls have been promoting the new range of products,

I'm planning an urgent trip to North Whales to meet up with the girls, there are some pressing questions I have about the range of products....JA right.

C.K Magma combines optimal functionality with creative style to deliver a range of eye-catching, premium quality products that are truly smarter by design. Developed in collaboration with an extensive panel of cross trade professionals, C.K Magma products are designed to get the job done in style. With its modern and contemporary look, C.K Magma is the preferred choice of trade professionals who aspire to look good both at work and at leisure. Built to survive the rigours of every day work, C.K Magma products provide all the functionality, comfort and protection trade professionals need.

Our various catalogues are still easily accessible.

Best regards ,

John Christensen 

Tuesday most stressful?

A new report has found that "The most stressful time of the working week is Tuesday ay 10am a study has revealed. "But on Tuesday reality sets in and staff spend the very first part of the day going through emails they ignored on Monday before planning the week ahead."

So I thought I would add one more for you to read, and all the while I thought we suffered from the Monday morning blues!

This year has started off with a bang as we already enter the last week of January 2011! It really seems we are hamsters in a wheel, spinning faster and faster.

We were approached by SouthAfrica magazine, and we got our 5minutes of fame, they have run an editorial on us, which is quite a nice read, read it HERE if you would like to.

Thanks for a great 2010 year, our clients are what keep us doing what we do! So thanks! We are fired up to help you with any of you requests.

Best regards ,

John Christensen

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Objects through a magnifier appear bigger. LEDs present many advantages over incandescent light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved robustness, smaller size, faster switching, and greater durability and reliability. LEDs powerful enough for room lighting are relatively expensive and require more precise current and heat management than compact fluorescent lamp sources of comparable output. Its amazing to me how much technology evolves and at the rate it does. In my house I have a plethora (yes its actually a word) of torches, & lights (mostly LED), I have one at my front door, for lighting during black outs, & for fending off unruly guests, in my car, in multiple kitchen draws. Basically I have a fasination with them, the bigger the lumen the more i'm interested. The LED torches just keep on working and the batteries last almost forever. Ever have a piece of glass or a fine splinter in your hand, and all you need is light and some way of magnifying the image so you can get the offending item out?? Well this is what I needed last Sunday night when I had an offending piece of glass lodged in my foot! While I was overseas sourcing products I found a brilliant new range of LED lamps, we have brought in what we believe to be the first LED magnifying lamps in South Africa, LED technology has evolved in leaps and bounds, giving you great light with little energy consumption, for all us greenies! They also have a lovely item called "Helping hands" - you know the situation, while trying to solder a small wire onto a tiny connector you end up holding the soldering iron in your mouth, while holding the two connections , and you end up burning your fingers along with a lot of cursing. So this is must have - it just makes things a little easier, why battle? Both items and a new larger Illuminated magnifier (with 90 LED's) are now in stock! Best regards , John Christensen Christensen Tools Please call us. We do everything in tools. Choose Christensen Tools for quality. You will find us here Johannesburg 11 Jules Street JEPPESTOWN 2194 011-618-3200 Cape Town Unit 42 Woodbridge Business Park Koeberg Road MILNERTON 7741 021-551-6320 Durban 99 Stamford Hill Road GREYVILLE 4001 031-309-7731 Our Range Here is some of the Kit we offer: Fluke Meters Toolkits & Cases Soldering & Desoldering Screwdrivers & Allen Keys Test Equipment Spanners, Wrenches, Vices & Lamps Insulated 1000V Tools Power Tools ESD-Static Control Garmin GPS's TomTom GPS's Download Catalogues Here Explore Products Here About Us We've been tool specialists since 1965. That's three generations of Christensens committed to getting you the best equipment for your task, whether you're a trainee technician or a seasoned pro. More

Want more quality for less? Its always nice to get a little more than you expected, like when they fill your chip packet to overflow when you order a hamburger. Or a full tank of fuel with a new car. A months free electricity (Ja right like that would ever happen!!) With that in mind, I thought while tinkering around the house that there are many "nice to haves" that are mighty useful when you are doing your job, but you somehow forget about: like a roll of insulation tape, bag of cable ties, a multi-tool a ESD wrist strap& mat? These are just a few items we are now including as standard in our RSA 1808c-ck toolkits. (no extra charge- yes you read that right). We are continually working at improving them, so if you have any bright ideas, please let me know. When I find more enhancements be sure to find them in the kits. (1708c-ck to follow shortly) We have some nice new Dextro Screwdrivers from our supplier CK, for you to get your hands onto, and i really mean that, they have newly improved ergonomic handles, and no slip technology. Click HERE for the PDF version of the range. Optimised specifically for the dexterity required in the jobs electricians do, the Dextro™ features a long, fine neck for ultimate fingertip control. It has an ergonomically shaped smooth, round head to allow it to pivot easily in the palm of the hand, and ridges along the head for that last ¼ turn of power when tightening down. Best regards, John Christensen Christensen Tools Please call us. We do everything in tools. Choose Christensen Tools for quality.

You will find us here Johannesburg 11 Jules Street JEPPESTOWN 2194 011-618-3200 Cape Town Unit 42 Woodbridge Business Park Koeberg Road MILNERTON 7741 021-551-6320 Durban 99 Stamford Hill Road GREYVILLE 4001 031-309-7731 Our Range Here is some of the Kit we offer: Fluke Meters Toolkits & Cases Soldering & Desoldering Screwdrivers & Allen Keys Test Equipment Spanners, Wrenches, Vices & Lamps Insulated 1000V Tools Power Tools ESD-Static Control Garmin GPS's TomTom GPS's Download Catalogues Here Explore Products Here About Us We've been tool specialists since 1965. That's three generations of Christensens committed to getting you the best equipment for your task, whether you're a trainee technician or a seasoned pro. More

Plop..... oooops?

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Plop..... oooops? So there we were yesterday, carrying on as we normally do (light office banter) when one of our accounts ladies came running through with her calculator! It was some-what dripping. She had knocked a glass of water on her desk over, and the majority of the glass' contents had landed in & on the calculator ( Murphy's Law). The initial response was to try & dry it out with a hair dryer, and lots of shaking and blowing, while this would help, the hot air can cause damage to sensitive electrical components, I suggested they open it up (they unplugged it first to bring it through, but disconnect the batteries if there any), and then thoroughly cover it in our RESOLVE ALLPURPOSE spray. RESOLVE ALL PURPOSE is a water repelling spray, perfect for cellphones & other electrical components dropped in water, it is also brilliant for aiding in loosening of tight bolts & nuts, dissolving of rust and preventing of corrosion, protecting tools the list goes on. Dries wet electrical equipment Eases loosening Dissolves rust Lubricates and cleans Prevents corrosion So the crissis was averted and the calculator lived to crank out those numbers once more, Resolve saved the day. I have a can under my sink at home, you won't believe how many times it comes so in handy. We have 5 other sprays in our range: Dust off (perfect for blowing off dust, even from camera lenses) Fluxoff (for removing flux residues from PC boards) Labeloff (those sticky paper labels come off in a dash) Concoat (mil spec. conformal coating which can be soldered through) Freezer (ideal for heat testing components) Best regards, John Christensen Christensen Tools Please call us. We do everything in tools. Choose Christensen Tools for quality. You will find us here Johannesburg 11 Jules Street JEPPESTOWN 2194 011-618-3200 Cape Town Unit 42 Woodbridge Business Park Koeberg Road MILNERTON 7741 021-551-6320 Durban 99 Stamford Hill Road GREYVILLE 4001 031-309-7731 Our Range Here is some of the Kit we offer: Fluke Meters Toolkits & Cases Soldering & Desoldering Screwdrivers & Allen Keys Test Equipment Spanners, Wrenches, Vices & Lamps Insulated 1000V Tools Power Tools ESD-Static Control Garmin GPS's TomTom GPS's Download Catalogues Here Explore Products Here About Us We've been tool specialists since 1965. That's three generations of Christensens committed to getting you the best equipment for your task, whether you're a trainee technician or a seasoned pro. More

Have you got blueteeth? We have all seen the TV ad, where the technically challenged guy goes in for a cellphone upgrade, and then brags to his work colleagues about how he now has "blueteeth". The way technology evolves I personally am thrilled to be born into this boom! I just love anything technologically gadgetty! Ok so? Im glad you asked that.... Our great supplier FLUKE has just dropped off a unit for us to test, and initially I thought that the unit was well how do I say this.... broken, as the screen and the body were not really so much attached! In fact they were very much apart. (like when you drop the tv remote and insides lie scattered all over the floor) This usually spells doom for a gadget. (this is what i saw) Turns out the clever folk at FLUKE have designed a meter that you can plug leads in one end and run measurements, and unclip the display and carry it away from the test site (up to 10 meters away). You can imagine the uses, testing in a hard to reach place, where the screen is not easily visible. They use Bluetooth technology which pairs the screen and body together when you "dock" them. You can use up to 10 units in the same room without everyone getting very confused. (ofcourse you can just dock the screen and use it as a normal meter). We have a couple here which we can drop off and let you test them out if you would like to see how it works. Click HERE for a demo. Want a full .pdf spec sheet? Click HERE Our phone line issues from last week were sorted out, but looking at the sky today looks like more rain! Eish hope our telephone lines stay dry! Best regards, John Christensen Christensen Tools Please call us. We do everything in tools. Choose Christensen Tools for quality.

You will find us here Johannesburg 11 Jules Street JEPPESTOWN 2194 011-618-3200 Cape Town Unit 42 Woodbridge Business Park Koeberg Road MILNERTON 7741 021-551-6320 Durban 99 Stamford Hill Road GREYVILLE 4001 031-309-7731 Our Range Here is some of the Kit we offer: Fluke Meters Toolkits & Cases Soldering & Desoldering Screwdrivers & Allen Keys Test Equipment Spanners, Wrenches, Vices & Lamps Insulated 1000V Tools Power Tools ESD-Static Control Garmin GPS's TomTom GPS's Download Catalogues Here Explore Products Here About Us We've been tool specialists since 1965. That's three generations of Christensens committed to getting you the best equipment for your task, whether you're a trainee technician or a seasoned pro. More

Keeping it light -

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To my surprise I woke up early this morning, eager to get an early start in the office. I thought I would get a kick start on a few things I needed to get done in the (my desk is starting to look like a prop from a horror movie). The traffic was a breeze (i know im tempting my old freind and his law - Murphy...) I arrived at the gate and pressed the remote, then pressed again, and again.. After closer inspection the reason the gate didn't open became apparent. We had no electricity! and by the look of things neither did the rest of Jeppestown. This meant that I had to open the office manually- but the building insides were in pitch darkness, dark rooms and passage ways. The old adage of "The cobblers children have no shoes"? Well I was determined that wasn't going to be me. I reached into my cubby hole and got out my handheld Super bright LED mini torch, being LED it uses hardly any battery charge (3xAAA), and so works when I need it. It is surprisingly bright.(come to think of it now, I should have used my headlamp, freeing my hands up to unlock locks & doors) I have a few of these torches (both styles) stashed away in my home and car, my take is you just can't have enough torches. The headlamp version is perfect when you need to use your hands for something other than holding the torch. I think im going to include a few of these torches in my god children's Christmas stockings, (i think their folks will also get to use them). Handheld @ R60, headlamp R79.20 (both INCLUDING batteries, ex vat while stocks last) Best regards, John Christensen Christensen Tools Please call us. We do everything in tools. Choose Christensen Tools for quality. You will find us here Johannesburg 11 Jules Street JEPPESTOWN 2194 011-618-3200 Cape Town Unit 42 Woodbridge Business Park Koeberg Road MILNERTON 7741 021-551-6320 Durban 99 Stamford Hill Road GREYVILLE 4001 031-309-7731 Our Range Here is some of the Kit we offer: Fluke Meters Toolkits & Cases Soldering & Desoldering Screwdrivers & Allen Keys Test Equipment Spanners, Wrenches, Vices & Lamps Insulated 1000V Tools Power Tools ESD-Static Control Garmin GPS's TomTom GPS's Download Catalogues Here Explore Products Here About Us We've been tool specialists since 1965. That's three generations of Christensens committed to getting you the best equipment for your task, whether you're a trainee technician or a seasoned pro. More