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Tools---the name for tools?

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#1 ·
Do you guys know what a hot-wrench is? Its actually a burning torch.

How about a knuckle buster? The old pipe wrench with the jaws worn out!

BFH? Big friggin Hammer!


What would you call a 15" crecent whench? The big-n!


Can you guys come up with any more?


Todd :rolleyes:


Rat Rods Rule!
 
#3 ·
Here's a couple.....

Persuader - (any long bar or pipe used for leverage to move an engine to locate motor mount screws)

Cheater - (pipe used over a wrench or ratchet handle to extend it and increase torque applied)

Calabration tool - (any hammer used to locate a stubborn assembly)

Nut buster - (No, not my ex-wife... tool used to break off stubborn nuts)

PMSS - (Poor mans socket set AKA... adjustable wrench)

Temporary fix all tool - (Duct tape)
 
#4 ·
LOL - the only tool I can ask my wife to hand me that she'll know what it is: "Honey, hand me the BFCB." She knows that's the 4-foot long 1x1 sq. tubing - the Big Farging Cheater Bar.

She also knows to stand back after handing me that one, keep medical supplies close by and to cover the kids ears. :D
 
#6 ·
Tools and their actual use...

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.

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 and driver's uniforms.

ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling mounting holes in fenders just above the brake line that goes to the rear wheel.

PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads.

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: 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.

OXY-ACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your garage on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease
inside a brake drum you’re trying to get 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 15 minutes.

WIRE WHEEL: Cleans rust off old 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, “Ouc....”

HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering a race car to the ground after you have installed your new front disk brake setup, trapping the jack
handle firmly under the front fender.

EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering a race car upward off a hydraulic jack.

TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters.

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

SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Commonly useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-doo off your boot.

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.

TIMING LIGHT: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease buildup.

TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and brake lines you may have forgotten to disconnect.

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.

BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from a car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that
your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought.

AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.

TROUBLE LIGHT: The 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 race cars at night. Health benefits aside, its 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 Iraqi war. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. However, always trouble.

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 ***** heads.

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 60 years ago by someone in Detroit, and rounds
them off.

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 cut hoses ½ inch too short.

SPANNER WRENCH: a bedeviling wrench that causes you to improvise with a pair of Craftsman needle-nose (see NEEDLE NOSE PLIERS) freeing you up to
waste several hours attempting to get the Spanner nut off but breaking the needle-nose and causing you to drive 3 times to 3 different Sears
stores to replace them. You forget to buy a Spanner Wrench while you’re there each time.

SNAP RING PLIERS: see SPANNER WRENCH. Causes all above the same effects with the addition of finally getting the ring off, but at 450 mph straight into left eye.

NEEDLE NOSE PLIERS: see SPANNER WRENCH and SNAP RING PLIERS. Useful for breaking while attempting to remove spanner nuts and snap rings.

There you have it!

Regards,
Gerry Dedonis
Kansas Racing Products Inc.
 
#10 ·
"adjustable 9/16 wrench!!!!"
"Freakin" wrench
And you`ve heard of blue toquring it.Till you turn blue in the balls!!!Right in there with Johnson rods, canipling pins, and framus links!!!
Slider in Wa.
 
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