[Friday Funny] You may find this helpful around the house/garage...

[The Friday Funny]

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 soda across the room, splattering it against that 
freshly-stained heirloom piece you were drying. 

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 guitar callouses from fingers in about the time it takes you 
to say, 'Yeouw....' 

ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes 
until you die of old age, or for perforating something behind and beyond 
the original intended target object.

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.  Caution: Avoid using for 
manicures. 

HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built for frustration 
enhancement.  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. 

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 45 minutes. 

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 4x4: Used for levering an automobile upward 
off of a trapped hydraulic jack handle. 

TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters and wire wheel wires. 

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. 

RADIAL ARM SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops 
to scare neophytes into choosing another line of work. 

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. 

TROUBLE LIGHT: The home 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 105mm 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.  The accessory socket within the base has been 
permanently rendered useless, unless requiring a source of 117v ac power 
to shock the mechanic senseless. 

PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids, 
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. 

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 gun that grips rusty bolts 
which were last over tightened 40 years ago by someone at VW, and 
instantly rounds off their heads. Also used to quickly snap off lug nuts. 

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 
to 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.  It is also useful for 
removing large chunks of human flesh from the user's hands.

DAMMIT TOOL: (I have lots of these) 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 after a really big 
hammer. 

-- 
Peter SJF Bance
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