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Old 12-04-2010, 07:28 PM
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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, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.
WIRE WHEEL:
Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "Oh, SXXX !
SKILL SAW:
A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
PLIERS:
Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
BELT SANDER:
An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
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.
VISE-GRIPS:
Generally used after pliers to completely 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.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH:
Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race..
TABLE SAW:
A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK:
Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
BAND SAW:
A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.
TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST:
A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER:
Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but, can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER:
A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.
PRY BAR:
A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
HOSE CUTTER:
A tool used to make hoses too short.
HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.
UTILITY KNIFE:
Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while you are wearing them.
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Old 12-04-2010, 09:37 PM
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Funny stuff!

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Loved them! How about these:
Saws-all: a tool that saws all within its reach including electrical wires, plumbing pipes, and fingers (yes, I've done them all!)

drill bit: a tool that spins until there is smoke and then fire all the time hurling shrapnel willy-nilly

grease gun: a weapon designed to completely ruin your clothes and your rags and permanently stain your skin.

Adjustable wrench: a tool allowing you to throw away all your other wrenches so that you can round off the heads of bolts enabling you to use the aforementioned visegrips.
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Loved them! How about these:
Saws-all: a tool that saws all within its reach including electrical wires, plumbing pipes, and fingers (yes, I've done them all!)

drill bit: a tool that spins until there is smoke and then fire all the time hurling shrapnel willy-nilly

grease gun: a weapon designed to completely ruin your clothes and your rags and permanently stain your skin.

Adjustable wrench: a tool allowing you to throw away all your other wrenches so that you can round off the heads of bolts enabling you to use the aforementioned visegrips.
LOST TOOL:
something you find not exactly when you return from the storte with a new one, but just after you start to use nit so you can't return it.

Suspended ceiling tile:
the place where you discover the tools you left on top of them years ago

Ladder top
launching platform for forgotten tools that fall on the head when you move the ladder

and remember.....
everything's a hammer...
except, a screwdriver....
and that's a chisel!


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