Posted on 12/13/2005 7:44:39 PM PST by coloradan
23. Combination wrench: A long metallic device used to check the short circuit current of a car battery.
Don't forget DYKES.
off topic but when I was 14 working on a construction site I was told to go fetch a crooked 2x4. The carpenters started yelling at me to move my ass cuz they needed it. I spent 30 minutes walking around asking for it and got sent all over the job site.....
24. Crescent Wrench used to professionally round off bolt heads.
LOLOLOL!!!! I'm dyin'.
Did that once with a metal watch band.
I was using channel-locks to remove a brake spring when, you guessed it, it slipped and drew blood above my eyebrow. I immediately discovered it also acted as a boomerang when I got mad and threw it only to find it ricochet'd back to hit me in the face again.
"off topic but when I was 14 working on a construction site I was told to go fetch a crooked 2x4. The carpenters started yelling at me to move my ass cuz they needed it. I spent 30 minutes walking around asking for it and got sent all over the job site....."
That's a classic initiation gag for a rooky on a construction site.
They do it to every newbie.
Sounds similar to a persuit down the runway looking for flight line or prop wash.
If it can't be done with a hammer and vice grips then I can't do it.
Isn't that Ellen DeGeneres' favorite tool?
Or the infamous muffler bearings...
"I was using channel-locks to remove a brake spring when, you guessed it, it slipped and drew blood above my eyebrow."
Channel locks have an attitude. You should have known that.
Flashlight: A device used to drain batteries in your toolbox.
In a radio shop I once worked in, we sent the parts person down to pick up some one conductor ribbon cable, 100 feet of same was needed, quickly.
You gotta read these!
25. Torque bar: a long metal rod used to crack sockets and peel flesh off knuckles.
I just got through putting a new DRO scale on my milling machine, and while waiting for the CNC program to calibrate it, I logged on to check the forcast and FR.
Thanks for the laugh.
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