Do you know how to use these tools?

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[I see my hands]

To: MissLanders

For a while when I was a kid I worked in the salt mines 1500 feet beneath Lake Erie. Regardless of seniority the guys delighted in setting one another on fire.

[yarddog]

I thought that was called a Crescent Hammer.

I was using a screw driver hammer just this afternoon. I used it to knock a battery cable down on the terminal. I also regularly use a half inch ratchet hammer.

[Calvin Locke]

Radial Arm Saw: I was trying to mill a small piece of wood, purpose forgotten, and had just put in a new Freud blade.

Never having taken shop (Catholic schools), I was smart enough to use a small c-clamp to hold the wood, and keep
my fingers out of the way.

The blade grabbed the wood, wedging it against the table, and proceeded to propel the saw up the wood, finally
hitting the clamp, and stopping dead. I turned it off, removed the piece, and turned it back on to see if I did
any damage.

The saw started shaking. I turned it off, and removed dust cover, noting that the elbow was missing.

Any way, the c-clamp took out a dozen or so teeth, remarkably throwing some out the dust exhaust, knocking
off the elbow.

I thought something went whizzing by my head...

So, while I didn't know enough to tighten the saw, I knew enough to fashion a jig.

(It was also an excuse to buy a few other toys.)

[solitas]

...Crescent hammer...

Only if you hit arabs with it.

[LongElegantLegs]

Mr. Legs once used an electric drill to uncork a bottle of wine...
Yeah, he's a romantic at heart.

[dalereed]

"25. Hands - used to see if two wires are conducting electricity."

I've seen more than one electrician test 110v by wetting 2 fingers, same hand, and seeing if they are hot by touching them.

Don't try it with a finger on each hand, it will kill you!

[magslinger]

Or a bucket of steam.

[Big Giant Head]

Nail Gun - Because its hard to drive nails into parts of your body with just a manual hammer and will power.

Oh, I saw a home improvement show last summer where this cute little chickadee was wielding a nail gun to frame up a door way. I thought she was holding it in a precarious fashion, and was thinking she could easily shoot a nail through the board into her arm.

They cut next to here holding a bloody rag on her arm, waiting for the ambulance!

[eastforker]

Don't forget the arc start for the welder, you know, it's in the Green can.

[TASMANIANRED]

Have you ever hunted snipe?

[Phsstpok]

According to Robert Heinlein (through his character Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love)

 

A human being should be able to

 

 - change a diaper

 - plan an invasion

 - butcher a hog

 - conn a ship

 - design a building

 - write a sonnet

 - balance accounts

 - build a wall

 - set a bone

 - comfort the dying

 - take orders

 - give orders

 - cooperate

 - act alone

 - solve equations

 - analyze a new problem

 - pitch manure

 - program a computer

 - cook a tasty meal

 - fight efficiently

 - die gallantly.

Specialization is for insects.

[RaceBannon]

I actually own a metric crescent wrench, it has a 200 mm length...

Not a joke, either, you should see people's faces when I tell them they grabbed the wrong adjustable! :)

gets em every time, some people actually put it back in the tool bag!

[Kirkwood]

Voltmeter (aka multimeter): Device used to test the voltage of dead batteries; it normally has dead batteries itself.

[Not now, Not ever!]

Yep, and found it to!

Wait, maybe I shouldn't have answered that.

[I see my hands]

I know five people in my life who have lost most of a finger. I'll say this, every time I see them relate the story of how it happened they're wearing a big grin.

(i don't mean anything, i'm just saying.)

[TASMANIANRED]

If you found it, it won't go any further than me.

[Boiling point]

Once some buddys and I, After the requisite number of beers, had the need to "set the bead" on a tire. Many of you have seen the old trick spraying starting ether in the tire and igniting it, thus setting the bead with a WHUMP sound. We did not have ether, but had acetylene. Suspecting this could be dangerous I placed the tire in the loader bucket of my tractor, and standing behind it, I released a few seconds of acetylene into the tire with the torch. Then I lit the torch, adjusted it to get a very long flame and from my "Safe" position from behind the loader bucket, I directed the flame at the tire. No whomp. Just BANG! Tire launched about thirty feet straight up. Didn't set the bead. Hell we tried it two more times with the same results before we decided, while spectacular to watch, it doesn't set the bead very well.

[NAVY84]

That is a secondary use for that tool. It is correctly known as a "Crescent Hammer"

[dalereed]

"it normally has dead batteries itself"

I always have at least one 6 pack of 9v batteries in my truck boxes for just such occurances.

Crap like that is why my truck boxes and contents weigh 1500#

2 cross boxes and 2 side boxes crammed full and the tool that you want is always on the bottom!

[ctdonath2]

7. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for setting various flammable objects in your garage on fire.

Ain't kiddin' there. Neighbor's garage was there one day, wasn't there the next. Go figure. Heck of a way to turn a fine antique pickup truck into an insurance check.