Tool reviews

(Doc & Herb might like this) :slight_smile:

  1. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching

flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the

chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against

that freshly painted part you were drying.

  1. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere

under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes

fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time

it takes you to say, “SH**!!!”

  1. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in

their holes until you die of old age.

  1. PLIERS: Used to round off hexagonal bolt heads.

  2. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija

board principle: It transforms human energy into a crooked,

unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its

course, the more dismal your future becomes.

  1. VISE GRIP PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else

is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat

to the palm of your hand.

  1. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for setting various

flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the

grease inside a wheel hub you’re trying to get the bearing race out

of.

  1. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars

and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16

or 1/2 socket you’ve been searching for the last 15 minutes.

  1. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the

ground after you have installed your new disk brake pads, trapping

the jack handle firmly under the bumper.

  1. EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 4X4: Used to attempt to lever an

automobile upward off a hydraulic jack handle.

  1. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing splinters of wood, especially Douglas fir.

  2. TELEPHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has

another hydraulic floor jack.

  1. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool

for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for removing dog feces from

your boots.

  1. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt

holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.

  1. TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the

tensile strength of bolts and fuel lines you forgot to disconnect.

  1. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying

tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on

the end without the handle.

17 AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.

  1. TROUBLE LIGHT: The home builder’s own tanning booth. Sometimes

called drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine

vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health

benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 100-watt light bulbs

at about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used

during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More

often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.

  1. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of

old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and squirt oil on your shirt; can

also be used, as the name implies, to round off the interiors of

Phillips screw heads.

  1. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a

coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into

compressed air that travels by hose to an Pneumatic impact wrench

that grips rusty bolts last tightened 70 years ago by someone at

Ford, and rounds them off.

  1. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding of that

clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent

part.

  1. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses 1/2 inch too short.

  2. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer

now-a-days is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive

parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.

  1. MECHANIC’S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of

cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly

well on boxes containing upholstered items, chrome-plated metal,

plastic parts and the other hand not holding the knife.

sounds like my own workshop, don’t forget the overall zipper that never stay closed, as the red hot sparks from that blunt disc cutter bounce off you testies!

Cheers Joe :0

power planer: tool used to remove insulation off power cords

good one Benny

I’m passing it around the office.

Ramps:Usually used when doing routine maitenence, but are a very effective means of rapidly propelling your car in a downward motion with the door open towards the garage door opening, which subsequently tries to rip your door off.

True story, I was changing my oil, and I tried to take the car off of the ramps before I put the new oil in so that I could more easily pour the new oil in, and one thing led to the next, and all of a sudden my car door was all jacked up and I felt pretty dumb.

tools …

people who tell you "it will be ready tomorrow "

and

four months later

“board , what board , chip …you never ordered a board !” [after they have just returned from their $700 stay in indo …guess WHO payed for that?]

ben

you forgot:

Cordless Drill/Driver - a tool for quickly and efficiently making smooth, conical depressions in screw heads

Table saw - a device for cutting wood, and occasionally converting a piece of partially ripped lumber into a javelin, as an attentiveness test

-Samiam

brilliant benny

after being initially mentaly disarmed

the subsequent belly laughs are well appreciated…

though I for one might be expected to make additions ,

in this case this tool treatise stands well .

kudos lad

a fine disertation.

My best to the muse,

the eternal balckened thumbnail.

…ambrose…

That goes right along with this:

  1. It’s important to have a woman who helps at home, who

cooks from time to time, cleans up and has a job.

  1. It’s important to have a woman who can make you laugh.

  2. It’s important to have a woman who you can trust and who

doesn’t lie to you.

  1. It’s important to have a woman who is good in bed and who

likes to be with you.

  1. It’s very, very important that these four women don’t

know each other.

Benny, That was hilarious! I was sitting at my computer laughing out loud. It’s so funny because it’s true. I’ve done many of those things.

The hammer one is a classic. Doug

TABLE SAW: For that permanent manicure.

ROUTER: A quick way to loose body fat.

DISK SANDER: To smooth out those unwanted wrinkles.