What tools are really used for :)

ThePumpkin

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Sorry if this is a re-post:

DRILL PRESS:

A tall upright machine useful for suddenly ******ing 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 --'


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 in use.


Son of a b*tch TOOL :

Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'Son of a b*tch' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.
 
Nice post, funniest one I thought was the pliers then the vice grips one. I dont personally do this but when I change out batteries at my work this is the number one thing I see, its so annoying too. People strip there bolts then bring it to us to fix.
 
Nice post, funniest one I thought was the pliers then the vice grips one. I dont personally do this but when I change out batteries at my work this is the number one thing I see, its so annoying too. People strip there bolts then bring it to us to fix.

Ugh ... I know what you mean. I hated working with a bunch of morons who thought you could change out any battery with a pair of pliers, a flathead screwdriver, and a hammer. They'd completely FUBAR a customer's battery and/or terminals, then come get me and insist I try to finish the job, and then the customer would get all pissed at ME when I'd tell them they needed new battery terminal ends and/or a new battery (damned GM side-post batteries) because the threads were stripped out, the nut was completely rounded off, AND/OR the terminal, itself, was completely destroyed. I don't know how many damned terminal ends I wound up writing off as "customer satisfaction" and having to replace because of the 16-year-old first-job-ever idiots that I worked with that had no idea what the difference is between SAE and metric sizes... :nonono:
 
"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."

I'll admit to this one haha
 
What is sad is that I work in a shop, and although we have some of the premium tools and lots of them, as well as daily use of them for experience, all of what is listed still applies. We just get better at hurting ourselves with those tools.
 
yeah darkwriter and mob, working at advance has made me hate all people. how dare you make me change your battery in your friggen suburban thats burried by braces and crap and then leave me with a stripped side post piece of GM failure to take care of...
 
LMAO that is hilarious. If its a repost i didnt see the first one.

particularly hilarious IMO is the engine hoist one.

i just laughed so hard at that one my head started to hurt. i have ****ed up more **** with an engine hoist. just last week i ripped a fuel line off of a dodge truck that i forgot to un hook. that one tool has single handly cost me so much money.