Tool Definitions

    • 611 posts
    December 10, 2011 1:20 PM PST
    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 sh--!'

    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.

    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 tension 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 you 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.
  • December 10, 2011 2:54 PM PST
    Edge, you're funny as hell man.......way too funny, all of this shit, really....
    I can appreciate every single one of these... being a former owner of a steel fab and machine shop in NOLA....!
    • 3006 posts
    December 11, 2011 3:26 AM PST
    LOL my favorite..the SOB tool !!! a classic for me !!! LOL thanks for sharing this !!
    • 1161 posts
    December 11, 2011 5:33 AM PST
    HAHA. THAT WAS GREAT!!!!
  • December 17, 2011 2:13 AM PST
    I've proven the TABLE SAW definition too many times.

    Jon
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    • 1516 posts
    December 17, 2011 3:57 AM PST
    Edge, you got me, that was a great way to start the day!!! To funny
  • December 17, 2011 4:58 AM PST
    Ha ha! Nice! If short on SOB tools, any sparkplug will do
    • 844 posts
    December 19, 2011 2:31 AM PST
    Edgewalker54 wrote...


    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 you are trying to hit.

    Also works well for removing fingernails.


    • 1 posts
    December 19, 2011 10:17 AM PST
    Got all of them tools and use them just as described!
  • January 5, 2012 4:19 AM PST
    I just want to know where in the hell you hid the camera in my garage...
  • January 5, 2012 5:13 AM PST
    Love this! Stealing it......
  • January 5, 2012 8:59 AM PST
    You forgot the Left-handed cresent hammer, commonly used to replace muffler bearings.
    • 611 posts
    January 5, 2012 3:48 PM PST
    dawnt wrote...
    Love this! Stealing it......


    Aww Dawn, ya can't steal what I'd give ya anyway! Glad ya liked it!

    Edge