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Old 02-08-2007, 10:34 AM
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Tools and their real uses

I thought some of you yonger guys could use this...

*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-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 calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to
say, "YEOWW ...."

*ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes
until you die of old age.

*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. The most often the tool used by all women.

*BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor
touch-up jobs i nto 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.

*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 inch 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 2X4: 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 h arder 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 Battleof the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat
misleading.

*PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids
and for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your
sh irt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips
screw heads. Women excel at using this tool.

*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 ChicagoPneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts
which were last over tightened 30 years ago by someone at Ford, 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
the object we are trying to hit. Women primarily use it to make gaping
holes in walls when hanging pictures.

*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.

*DAMMIT TOOL: 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.
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Originally Posted by BadAssGN
*DAMMIT TOOL: 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.
lmao thats soo true especially how many times u get bloody knuckles trying to get a bolt out from a tight place in the engine
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Awesome. I love the Dammit tools.
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LMfao if u came up with all that GOOD JOB
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Old 02-15-2007, 10:22 AM
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when im working i need to constantly j's or else i lose my temper and use the dammit tool..DAMMIT!!!, im gettin mad just thinkin about working under the hood...the joys of owning a 95..CONSTANT FIXING!!!! UHHHH!!
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