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my_mini_bike
02-29-2008, 04:13 AM
The REAL use or garage tools...

Hammer: Originally weapon of war, the hammer is used as a kind of diving rod to locate expensive parts not far from the object you were trying to hit.

Stanley Knife: Used to slice through the contents of cardboard boxes; works well on boxes containing leather goods.

Electric Hand Drill: Normally used for spinning steel pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age.

Pliers: Used to round off bolt heads.

Hacksaw: One of the family of cutting tools on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into crooked, unpredictable motion and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

Vicegrips: Used to Round off bolt heads and transfer welding heat to your hand.

Oxy-Accetylene Torch: For lighting anything flamible in your garage.

Whitworth Sockets: Once used for working on old british cars, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 15mm socket you cant find.

Drill Press: An upright machine useful for snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flies across the room into that freshly painted part you were drying.

Wire Wheel: Cleans rust off old bolts and throws them under the workbench at the speed of light. Also removes fingertips.

Tin Snips: See hacksaw

Lead Light: Consumes 40 watt light bulbs at the same rate howitzer shells were used at the battle of bulge.

Phillips Screw Driver:Normally used to stab the lids of old-style tin cans and splash oil on your shirt. it can also be used as the name suggests, to round off phillips screw heads.

Pneumatic Impact Wrench: A machine which uses the incredible power of compressed air to grip rusty bolts last tightened 40 years ago by someone in Detroit, and rounds them off.

Hose Cutters: A tool used to cut hoses half an inch too short

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kibble
02-29-2008, 08:18 AM
LOL!!! The sad part is, I can related to many of these because they've have happened to me :oops:

There's nothing like the look on someones face when you look at them and they have just realized that something is too short or doesn't fit right and it can't be fixed. :arf:

my_mini_bike
02-29-2008, 04:44 PM
lol its so true :arf:

bigbuddy29
03-04-2008, 05:06 PM
lol thats good. touch is a liquid wrench:cheers2:

dirtrider69
03-05-2008, 07:05 PM
lol ive had the drill press and vise grip thing happen to me plenty of times....lmao:mad2:

crazycart
03-05-2008, 07:19 PM
Ever had a drill press rip out your hair? It hurts lol.

kibble
03-05-2008, 08:05 PM
Unless you have long hair and it gets caught, I don't see how that would happen. The hand thing has happened to me plenty of times, so now whenever possible I try to use clamps or heavy gloves.

Rickracer
10-31-2009, 02:02 PM
Got it Robert, :cool:

Kenny_McCormic
10-31-2009, 09:50 PM
Air chisel: Used to vibrate your hand off, and further round off bolts.

anderkart
10-31-2009, 10:04 PM
11, 13 and 14mm sockets/wrenches: Used when you cant find yer dang 7/16'th 1/2" or 9/16's. (and vica versa)

newrider3
10-31-2009, 10:10 PM
Flathead screw driver: Used for opening paint cans, as a pry bar (usually resulting in the tip breaking off and becoming lost inside your project), or as a chisel type device.

Sawzall: Usually employed to vibrate everything on your workbench so that it slides off and hits the ground.

And one that I saw in another thing like this:

****-it tool: Any tool thrown across the shop as hard as you can whilst yelling "**** it!" at the top of your lungs. Usually happens to disappear immediately afterwards, which is the point in which you need it.


Edit: Why is d a m n censored?

anderkart
10-31-2009, 10:20 PM
Channel lock pliers: when you want to hold something but it slips off and then the handles end up pinching the holy living bejebus out of your hand...

newrider3
10-31-2009, 10:29 PM
Channel lock pliers: when you want to hold something but it slips off and then the handles end up pinching the holy living bejebus out of your hand...

Done that way too many times...

Also good for turning that large nut you don't have the proper wrench for into an abstract shape with some nice vertical grooves in it.