Tool savy only

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: Tool savy only

Tool Dictionary for all the handy men out there....

I'm sure none of us have EVER used the last one .....

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 soda across the room, splattering it against that freshly-stained
heirloom piece you were drying.

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 guitar callouses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say,
'Yeouw....'

ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their
holes until you die of old age, or for perforating something behind and beyond
the original intended target object.

SKIL 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. Caution: Avoid using for manicures.

HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built for frustration enhancement.
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.

WELDING GLOVES: Heavy duty leather gloves used to prolong the
conduction of 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 you want the bearing race out of.

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 45 minutes.

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.

EIGHT-FOOT LONG YELLOW PINE 4X4: Used for levering an automobile upward
off of a trapped hydraulic jack handle.

TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters and wire wheel wires.

E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known
drill bit that snaps neatly off in bolt holes thereby ending any possible future use.

RADIAL ARM SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most
shops to scare neophytes into choosing another line of work.

TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength
of everything you forgot to disconnect.

CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 24-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A very large pry bar that
inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end opposite the
handle.

AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.

TROUBLE LIGHT: The home mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called
a 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 40- watt light bulbs at about the same rate that
105mm 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. The accessory socket within the base, has been permanently rendered
useless, unless requiring a source of 117vac power to shock the mechanic
senseless.

PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under
lids, 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.

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 a Chicago Pneumatic impact gun that grips rusty bolts which
were last over tightened 40 years ago by someone at VW, and instantly rounds
off their heads. Also used to quickly snap off lug nuts.

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 to
the object we are trying to hit.

MECHANIC'S 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 in use. It is also useful for
removing large chunks of human flesh from the user's hands.

DAMMIT TOOL: (I have lot's of these) Any handy tool that you grab and
throw across the garage while yelling 'DAMMIT' at the top of your lungs. It
is also, most often, the next tool that you will need after a really big
hammer
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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject:

LMAO! Those are great....and uh...ahem...true! Laughing

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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject:

"TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood
projectiles for testing wall integrity."

Nice... I remember back in high school, I was cutting the angled sides of a 2 x 6 when I got some serious kick-back. It whisked by my gut and shattered a stool to pieces that sat about 25 ft. behind the table saw. I was lucky on that one. Unfortunately I wasn't so lucky when a different table saw in the same class took 3 ends off my fingers. Luckily I got most of them slapped back on Wink

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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:02 am Post subject:

I still remember the 4 foot long 6"x6" piece of cherry coming out of the lathe at 2500RPM in my woodworking class... I've never seen that many people hit the floor that fast since...

Embarassed

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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:13 am Post subject:

I had just got a Dremel for Christmas last year for doing some fine detail work. so i wanted to test it out. It came with all types of blades and bits for different uses. I was using the small round saw blade to cut a channel in a piece of walnut for a puzzle box I was making. After a few minutes I hear PLINK. I look and notice the blade is gone. HUH.....I can't find it. After a few minutes I decide futile. I was going to get another cup of joe and try again. I take off my safety glasses and lo and behold dead center lodged in the glass was the blade. I couldn't see it with the glasses on. it was dead center over my left eye.
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:51 am Post subject:

Something like that, and yet most people think you're lame for wearing safety glasses when using power tools... Personally, I prefer the ability to see over any "lack of fashion" safety glasses present...

Cool

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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:59 am Post subject:

man, remember wood shop? the table jig? a stationary cutting tool that requires new users to choose between smashing their thumbs on the underside of the wood or mashing their knuckles on the underside of the top part of the machine.

oh, and the f'ing band saw... A device to instill terror in the heart of every student in the room when the teacher shows you the stub where his finger used to be... and then seeing the band actually break sending 12 feet of bone-sawing death flinging around the room like a snake on cocaine.
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:07 am Post subject:

Funny, how i thought this stuff just went on in my wood working classes Laughing

Recently, a kid was using a table saw, and that piece of Maple just FLEW! broke some kids creation about 15 feet away. Razz

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