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Old September 7th 05, 04:47 AM
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I got this one from a friend. How true!


Thought you might enjoy these. They are RIGHT on the mark!



a.* 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 painted part you were drying.

b.* WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere
under the workbench with the speed of light.* Also removes fingerprint
whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you

to
say, "Ouch...."

c.* ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in

their
holes until you die of old age


d.* PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads.

e.* 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.

f.* 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.

g.* OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various
flammable objects in your shop on fire.
Also handy for igniting the grease inside a wheel hub you're trying to
get the bearing race out of.

h.* 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
socket you've been searching for the last 15 minutes.

i.* HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the

ground
after you have installed your new disk brake pads, trapping the jack
handle firmly under the bumper.

j.* EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering an automobile
upward off a hydraulic jack handle.

k.* TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters.

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

m.* SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool

for
spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-do off your boot.

n.* 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.

o.* TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the

tensile
strength of bolts and fuel lines you may have forgotten to
disconnect.

p.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.

q.AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.

r.* TROUBLE LIGHT: The home builder's own tanning booth.
Sometimes called 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, it's 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.

s.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.

t.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
bolts last tightened 70 years ago by someone at Ford, and rounds
them off.

u.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.

v.HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses 1/2 inch too short.

w.HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays

is
used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from
the object we are trying to hit.

x.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 seats, chrome and plastic parts.

 




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