tools explained

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Originally posted by sookyjumps

Hammer drill: A tool widely used to drill half way through oak floor joists, after which the drill jams and spins around at two thousand miles an hour breaking your wrist that is firmly attached to it. True story, I did it last year.

Try using bees wax on the bit it will solve this problem or a bar of cheap body soap. preferably dial or some generic as long as it has paraffin wax in it.

Ford wrench,good for teaching a youngster to cuss

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Originally posted by notech

Ford wrench,good for teaching a youngster to cuss

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that's a good one... i was hoping you would have some....

tool box: where you keep all your tools, except for the one that you need...

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Originally posted by firereign

Easy out: for removing a bolt broken off during installation or removal, also quite handy for snapping off in the bolt stud and leaving you with more than one problem.

Easy outs...aren't.

dogbone wrench,good for throwing or skinning knuckles

Drill Press....Hmmm hogging out a pre-drilled hole in a 1/4 in plate of steel. Drill press grabbed it and spun the mini-vise around. What do I do? Of course I grab for it. 3/8 bit through my left thumb sideways. I see the bit spinning while through my thumb and I do the worst thing possible, I freak and jerk my thumb away and the bit exits my thumb sideways.


On a plus I can commit all the crimes I want with my left thumb and my fingerprint are AFU.

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Originally posted by ev1l0ne

Drill Press....Hmmm hogging out a pre-drilled hole in a 1/4 in plate of steel. Drill press grabbed it and spun the mini-vise around. What do I do? Of course I grab for it. 3/8 bit through my left thumb sideways. I see the bit spinning while through my thumb and I do the worst thing possible, I freak and jerk my thumb away and the bit exits my thumb sideways.


On a plus I can commit all the crimes I want with my left thumb and my fingerprint are AFU.

sorry to laugh at you,but,I drilled through my right index finger the same way (ouch)

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Originally posted by notech

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sorry to laugh at you,but,I drilled through my right index finger the same way (ouch)

Yup,

When I was in the nav on my first boat USS Fox. We were in the shipyards. Of course the old paint must go bye-bye. So I am sitting there listening to Metallica with headphones on instead of hearing protection. Made sense at the time, and I am running a pneumatic sander with and 8" sanding disc with 80 grit on it taking the deck on the 05 level to bare steel. Well the disc catches the cord to my headphones and rips them off my head. True to form I freak I grab for the sander and headphones which are whipping about like a implement of heavy metal death.

Of course do I get the sander body? No, I grab the disc spinning at 8000/RPM. The rest is obvious.

Being a ex-mechanic, i too sadly have done it all on the list and a few which didnt make the list. Torch.. A device used to heat up a hitch ball and then grabbing it to yank it off after nut is removed. Kinda looked like my hand did in the movie home alone where he grabbed the doorknob. SOB did that hurt!!

I was building a hitch for my truck,I wanted lights in it and the wiring.

I drilled the holes for the wires before welding it together,Iran 1/6" steel cable

though the holes so that I could weld it together and run the wires later.

I needed to clean the welds for painting,using a L-head grinder with a 6" wire cup

I'm grinding away when I catch thet cable,of course it wrapped up in the wheel at 80 million RPM

(this was at waist height)WACKED MY PEEPEE HARD I was afraid to look..........

turns out I only got a bloodblister on the tip (whew)

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Originally posted by firereign

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Try using bees wax on the bit it will solve this problem or a bar of cheap body soap. preferably dial or some generic as long as it has paraffin wax in it.

We've always used electricians lube, because we always have some.

The problem in this case was I was in a very small crawl space under a house and trying to drill through that damn old oak beam. As I was putting pressure on the drill I must pushed it at an angle instead of straight so the drill locked up and the rest is history.

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Originally posted by notech

I was building a hitch for my truck,I wanted lights in it and the wiring.

I drilled the holes for the wires before welding it together,Iran 1/6" steel cable

though the holes so that I could weld it together and run the wires later.

I needed to clean the welds for painting,using a L-head grinder with a 6" wire cup

I'm grinding away when I catch thet cable,of course it wrapped up in the wheel at 80 million RPM

(this was at waist height)WACKED MY PEEPEE HARD I was afraid to look..........

turns out I only got a bloodblister on the tip (whew)

OMG! that would suck, I freaking hate any form of hand held grinders, nothing good ever come from using them.

My buddy was grinding the end off a bolt on his hatchback civic when the piece he was grinding off shot out and cracked his windshield, he got pissed and I laughed my ass off.

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Originally posted by notech

I was building a hitch for my truck,I wanted lights in it and the wiring.

I drilled the holes for the wires before welding it together,Iran 1/6" steel cable

though the holes so that I could weld it together and run the wires later.

I needed to clean the welds for painting,using a L-head grinder with a 6" wire cup

I'm grinding away when I catch thet cable,of course it wrapped up in the wheel at 80 million RPM

(this was at waist height)WACKED MY PEEPEE HARD I was afraid to look..........

turns out I only got a bloodblister on the tip (whew)

That gives new meaning to "Third Eye Blind"!!!!

I had an overzealous girl do that once with ultra long nails but that is another story which does not fall under the title "Tools of the trade".

I was using a wire wheel to clean up some 12 gauge, and my face shield had fogged/dusted up, so I lifted it to continue the job because I figured that there was a higher risk of ripping off a finger, than there was of getting hit in the head.

Turns out, time makes fools of us all.

The length of metal had caught the wire, and was shot back at my head at however fast 60,000rpm throws metal out at. But, luckily, my face shield had a habit of falling down at random times. And right before the metal caught, the shield fell down. Like seriously, a fraction of a second before.

And the metal ended up hitting the shield, and denting/cracking it in front of my right eye.

That probably would have sucked.

ahahah thats amazing! i'm printing this off, and posting at @ work (mechanic shop)

There's some good ones there

I remember a story of this kid who was an apprentice mechanic. Apparently he was a bit of a tool and his name was Jesus so they crucified him... poor guy

I grew up in an autobody shop, learned alot, dabbled for a while but as a guitar player I gave it up for several reasons already listed. For work now I pretty much push a pencil.