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MG MGA - The definitive guide to tools and their uses

Found this today, and it made me laugh

Belt Sander:
An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.

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.

Dremel Tools:
A very useful tool for modelers which allows them to make more mistakes much faster, thereby turning $100 kits into spare parts, and completely justifying the purchase of another $100 kit.

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

Eight-Foot Long Yellow Pine 2x4:
Used for levering an automobile upward off of a trapped hydraulic jack handle.

Electric Hand Drill:
Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age.

Hacksaw:
It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

Hammer:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as to locate the most expensive parts adjacent to the object we are trying to hit. It is often used to make gaping holes in walls when hanging pictures. Also used as replacement for screwdriver.

Hose Cutter:
A tool used to make hoses too short.

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.

Mechanic's Knife:
Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door. It 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.

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 when you are trying to remove a bearing race.

Phillips Screwdriver:
Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids and 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.

Pliers:
Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.

Radial Arm Saw:
A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to scare novices into choosing another line of work.

Skill Saw:
A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.

Straight Screwdriver:
A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws.

Table Saw:
A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.

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

Two-Ton engine Hoist:
A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.

Mole-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.

Whitworth Sockets:
Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or1/2 inch socket you've been searching for the last 45 minutes.

Wire Wheel:
It cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light.
Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned guitar calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "YEOWW!
dominic clancy

Excellent Dominic - hope you don't mind if I use some of them in our club newsletter - cheers Cam
Cam Cunningham

That is really good! The author must have been hanging around my garage when he put that list together....

G Goeppner

This thread was discussed between 11/07/2009 and 13/07/2009

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