Tools Explained

[Adrian Harris]

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, sh*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.

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 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.

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 lothes, but only while in use..

SON OF A B*TCH TOOL:
Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling "SOB" at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

[Roland Mann]

Hi Adrian,

this is the most funny explanation I ever red. And it is so true. The perfect English humor that I like so much. Thank you while I'm reading it again.

Have a very nice weekend - Roland

[Robert Bruce]

LMAO so funny

[Robin Hinson]

Very Good Adrian

Robin

[Rocky Sembritzky]

Adrian,

Priceless and quite accurate!

Rocky

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

ROFLMAO

I score an eight... There are a few tools there that I don't have...

/Christoffer

[Phil Woollard]

Priceless keep em coming

[Tim Bowman]

Thanks Ardian. Too funny.

"SON OF A B*TCH TOOL:
Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling "SOB" at the top of your lungs."

This tool came in handy yesterday while reworking the Panther suspension.

Best regards
Tim

[Brian Leach]

Tim, Adrian;

SON OF A B*TCH TOOL, yes, I too used it yesterday when i ruined one of my parts on THE LAST CUT!

It comes in handy

Brian

[Adrian Harris]

I'm glad you guys enjoyed it

Roland, as much as I would like the British sense of humour to take the credit, SOB isn't a phrase we use much here, so I guess this originated somewhere over the pond

Adrian.

[phil fitzpatrick]

Loved the Tools explained Adrian.
REMEMBER Murphy's Laws

"Laws of annoyance"
When working on a project,if you put away a tool that you are certain you are finished with,you will need it instantly.

"Murphy's Law of repair"
You cant fix it if it aint broke.

"Anthony's Law of the workshop"
Any tool when dropped,will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.
Murphy's Corollary to Anthony's Law
On the way to the corner,any dropped tool will first always land on your toes.
and dont forget

"Rays rule for precision"
Measure with a micrometer

Mark with Chalk

Cut with an axe.

Cheers
Phil

[Brian Leach]

Adrian,

I think SOB is american.

For a while, when I was young, I thought it was my name


Brian