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Basic Shop tools

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Nancy Howell

03-13-2008 07:37:35




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Spotted this in Tool Talk and brought it over. Chuckled all the way through.

Basic Shop Tools and Their General Purpose

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 vertical stabilizer 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 manure!"

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

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.

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.

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.

E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps neatly off in bolt holes thereby ending any possible future use.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

"JESUS CLIP": A small circlip or hairpin-style retaining clip

typically used to hold small shafts in place (ie: carburetor throttle shaft). The name comes from every mechanics' expression the moment when a circlip pops off the shaft and falls under the car.

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circus

03-13-2008 11:48:04




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 Re: Basic Shop tools in reply to Nancy Howell, 03-13-2008 07:37:35  
spot welder- a device to produce 50 holes while patching one.
undercoating- applied to promote rust by sealing moisture against metal.
repair manuals- $30 fee so a pro can tell you to take it to a mechanic



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Goose

03-13-2008 08:56:39




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 Re: Basic Shop tools in reply to Nancy Howell, 03-13-2008 07:37:35  
Don't forget tweezers to extract splinters after using the eight foot pine 2x4.

Also, under Electric drill, "works particularly well for drilling roll bar mounting holes in a floorboard directly above the steel tube that runs to the rear brakes".



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Balatonm

03-13-2008 08:30:48




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 Re: Basic Shop tools in reply to Nancy Howell, 03-13-2008 07:37:35  
LOL, thats the truth for any mechanic



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rednekelmo

03-13-2008 08:25:27




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 Re: Basic Shop tools in reply to Nancy Howell, 03-13-2008 07:37:35  
sounds right to me don't forget crescent wrench: used to round off boltheads when the proper size wrench is unavailable,can also replace a hammer to damage parts in a pinch



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CRUSADER

03-13-2008 09:14:45




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 Re: Basic Shop tools in reply to rednekelmo, 03-13-2008 08:25:27  
Don't forget about the large screwdriver that is actually used for a prybar, scraper, chisel, lineup punch, and several other things...and can also be used to install and remove fasteners.



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