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Fr. Frank 08-15-2011 12:46 PM

Tool descriptions/definitions
 
  • DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching whatever you’re working on 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 sh--!'
  • SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make pieces of wood 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 projects.
  • 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 your trailer’s wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.
  • TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch projectiles for testing wall integrity.
  • HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile or trailer to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes or bearings, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper or frame.
  • BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good sheets or aluminum or composite 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 from the motor.
  • 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 to 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 in use.
  • SON-OF-A-BITCH TOOL: (A personal favorite!!) Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'Son of a BITCH!' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.
Hope you found this informative.

uncleboo 08-15-2011 02:41 PM

Re: Tool descriptions/definitions
 
Bingo! I never knew the actual definition of these words, I just knew they did EXACTLY what you described. Thanks for the education! :D

Islandtrader 08-16-2011 09:52 AM

Re: Tool descriptions/definitions
 
Quote:


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.

Someone once told me that if you have to use a hammer on a boat there is something bad that is going to happen...


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