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Barrie(Badger)Etter  
#1 Posted : 04 February 2010 08:55:55(UTC)
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Barrie(Badger)Etter

As Thursdays are my new Fridays I thought to share an alternative RA. Can anyone improve on them?

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 callouses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "Oh, s !"

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 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.

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 clothes, but only while in use.

Son of a bitch TOOL
Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling "Son of a bitch" at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.


Badger
Safety Smurf  
#2 Posted : 04 February 2010 09:15:14(UTC)
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Safety Smurf

Absolutly classic. Hope you don't mind Barry but I've copied it incase it disapears.

My own offering from the world of engineering terminology;

INTERFERENCE FIT
Wedged in

HIGH TOLERENCE FIT
Loose
Canopener  
#3 Posted : 04 February 2010 09:16:41(UTC)
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Canopener

Barrie

I think the majority of us can relate to most of those. The pliers one in particular - ouch! I will have to get my thinking cap on, but in the meantime thx for the light relief
Barrie(Badger)Etter  
#4 Posted : 04 February 2010 10:07:28(UTC)
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Barrie(Badger)Etter

Smurf
Copy away, hate for it to be lost never to be used.

Badger
ahoskins  
#5 Posted : 04 February 2010 10:10:30(UTC)
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ahoskins

I always thought a SCREWDRIVER was a lump of metal attached to the end of a stick, often mistakenly referred to as a HAMMER...

(used mostly by carpenters)
firesafety101  
#6 Posted : 04 February 2010 10:29:09(UTC)
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firesafety101

Excellent and funny, who said there was no humour in this forum?

I would like to amend the "Screwdriver" risk assessment to add, once the paint can is open the screwdriver then is useful for stirring the paint. Following this it is no longer useful as a screwdriver.
John Bartlett  
#7 Posted : 04 February 2010 10:32:45(UTC)
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John Bartlett

Excellent, we need more of this to get the message across to those that are made to attend induction after induction so people can 'check the boxes'
David Bannister  
#8 Posted : 04 February 2010 11:39:20(UTC)
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David Bannister

Bump. Too good to sink.
boblewis  
#9 Posted : 04 February 2010 11:51:45(UTC)
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boblewis

BOMBING - An environmentally friendly method of lowering loads using only gravity as the source of energy.

SPINDLE MOULDER - A machine used for shaping wood, bone or other materials with little initial pain.

Bob
ahoskins  
#10 Posted : 05 February 2010 20:45:23(UTC)
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ahoskins

Still Friday then...

Just to clarify:

What is generally referred to as a screwdriver is actually a screw turner and is used (apart from opening paint tins) by the most experienced and fastidious craftspeople (very pc) to align the slots in the scews once they have been driven home by the use of the screwdiver (aka hammer)

Happy Saturday!
Canopener  
#11 Posted : 05 February 2010 21:03:35(UTC)
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Canopener

How about

Pump Action screwdriver - great for punching holes above, below or to either side of your workpiece?
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