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crotchrocket
11/05/2010, 06:03 AM
Stolen from fwdc.co.uk :D


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, s---t"

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.

VICE-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.

OXY- ACETYLENE 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 in launching wood projectiles to test 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 aluminium 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, also serving as a handy chisel.

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, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, while being worn, along with anything else, except for what really needs cut, due to the fact that they are usually dull.

Son of a BITCH TOOL:
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.

WormGod
11/05/2010, 07:10 AM
*thumbs up*

tom4bren
11/05/2010, 07:11 AM
It's funny ... cause it's true!!!

RickOKC
11/05/2010, 09:10 AM
I knew there were hidden cameras in my garage.

tom4bren
11/05/2010, 10:03 AM
& by my own experience:


Leaf Vac - Electric tool to accumulate minimal amounts of leaves and vast amounts of dog waste into a permeable cloth bag being held tightly against your torso.

Leaf Blower - Electric or gas powered tool used to efficiently move fallen leaves & lawn debris from open areas into all flower beds, walkways and stairways.

Shop Vac - Electric tool to counter the effects of Wire Wheel listed above.

Chop Saw - Gas powered cutting tool used to cut rough door opening in brick or cinderblock walls (end product will be 2.38 inches wider than any common door sizes commercially available).

Dingo - Gas powered walk behind tractor used to knock down fences, scar trees and crush all of your spouses favorite lawn ornaments (some dirt will be moved in the process).

Electric Screwdriver - Same as listed above but enfused with high amounts of testosterone.

Hand Drill - Electric or battery powered device used to create oblong openings in almost any type surface 1/4 inch to the left of where a round hole was needed.

Step Ladder - Personnel launcher.



Things that need to be invented that I need NOW:


Cable stretcher

Negative grit sand paper (fills in scratches left behind by the regular kind)

Hole mover (see hand drill description above)

Upsidaisium (Don't know what it would be used for but it sure sounded cool when Ldub described it).

Gasoline stain eraser

crotchrocket
11/05/2010, 10:57 AM
hahahahaha!!!

circmand
11/05/2010, 03:25 PM
HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive car parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.

MECHANIC'S KNIFE:
Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing convertible tops or tonneau covers.

ELECTRIC HAND DRILL:
Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling rollbar mounting holes in the floor of a sports car just above the brake line that goes to the rear axle.

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:
Used to 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.

OXYACETELENE TORCH:
Used almost entirely for lighting those stale garage cigarettes you keep hidden in the back of the Whitworth socket drawer (What wife would think to look in _there_?) because you can never remember to buy lighter fluid for the Zippo lighter you got from the PX at Fort Campbell.

ZIPPO LIGHTER:
See oxyacetelene torch.

WHITWORTH SOCKETS:
Once used for working on 541's, they are now used mainly for hiding six-month old Salems from the sort of person who would throw them away for no good reason.

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 the Rolling Stones poster over the bench grinder.

WIRE WHEEL:
Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar callouses in about the time it takes you to say, "Django Reinhardt".

HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK:
Used for lowering the Interceptor to the ground after you have changed the spark plugs and trapping the jack handle firmly under the exhaust system and cracking the exhaust manifold.

EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4:
Used for levering a car upward off a hydraulic jack.

TWEEZERS:
A tool for removing wood splinters.

PHONE:
Tool for calling your neighbor Chris to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.

SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER:
Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-doo off your boot.

E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR:
A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.

TIMING LIGHT:
A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease buildup on crankshaft pulleys.

TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST:
A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and hydraulic clutch lines you may have forgotten to disconnect.

CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER:
A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle.

BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER:
A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought.

AVIATION METAL SNIPS:
See hacksaw.

TROUBLE LIGHT:
The 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 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.

PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER:
Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off Phillips screw heads.

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 Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty suspension bolts last tightened 40 years ago by someone in West Bromwich, and rounds them off

Luna X
11/05/2010, 03:56 PM
wish I had an aluminum magnet for removal of the muffler bearing

Ascinder
11/05/2010, 06:38 PM
Arc/Mig/Tig Welder: That thing that makes metal hot and results in setting adjacent things on fire. Also used for providing that extra burst of light your eyes have been craving for so long. Occasionally sticks pieces of metal to one another-usually the wrong ones. Also heat warps any project into a twisted unusable lump or blows so many holes in it that it resembles(melted) swiss cheese. When it finally gets set up properly to complete any job it immediately stops working.

Gas welder: Same as above but slower. Also never has any gas when you need it.

Reciprocating saw: Used to inadvertently puncture any and all soft lines located anywhere near the place you're actually trying to cut. Also used a practice device for blade replacement.

Miter saw: Cuts perfectly straight lines 1-5 degrees off from where you set it. Never the same cut twice.

Impact wrench: Designed to test patience and sanity by overtightening lug nuts to the point where the stud spins freely in the wheel and the lugnut is permanently stuck to it. Wheel removal=impossible. Only happens on Friday or Saturday nights for a guaranteed wasted weekend.

Paint sprayer: Originally designed to apply paint to automotive surfaces, but excels at applying paint and fun surprises to your intended surface such as dust, twigs, leaves, insect parts, oil/water bubbles, and the occasional small bird. Paint sprayers all share a unique feature as well: they change the color of the paint you bought to in no way resemble what you looked at in the store/catalog/etc.

Airless paint sprayer: Does the same thing but for houses.

Ldub
11/06/2010, 05:32 PM
Upsidaisium (Don't know what it would be used for but it sure sounded cool when Ldub described it).

This might be helpful...:yesgray:

http://www.hjo3.net/gurps/steam/upsidaisium.htm

As far as I know, it originated here
(http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_story/7860-Upsidaisium.html)
This (http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_video/7860-Upsidaisium.html) might help too.

It could save HUGE amounts of fuel if all forms of transportation were constructed from it...:yesgray:

SilverBullet75
11/06/2010, 08:12 PM
...Negative grit sand paper (fills in scratches left behind by the regular kind)


It's funny you brought this one up...
I've used asphalt as sandpaper on one of my art projects (stone sculpture).
Definately counts as a Negative grit! LOL.

WormGod
12/03/2010, 08:26 AM
Because power tools and women go hand in hand. :p~~~~~~~~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5bYDhZBFLA

crotchrocket
12/03/2010, 08:54 AM
Amazing,

Thanks for that Friday treat, lol!

vt_maverick
12/03/2010, 09:33 AM
Damn it you've got to warn those of us who are at work that this isn't safe... nothing like getting the old "Denied: You are trying to access Adult Content" message. :rolleyes: