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HOWARD O
05-31-2009, 09:27 AM
Is there anyone here that can't relate to the DAMM-IT Tool?


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 calluses from fingers in about the time it
takes you to say, 'Oh sh - '

ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in
their holes until you die of old age.

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, predictable
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.

DAMM-IT TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across
the garage while yelling 'DAMM-IT' at the top of your lungs. It is also,
most often, the next tool that you will need.

I'd like to add my personal favorite, the pipe wrench. The
only tool known to man that will, when losing traction on the object it was
gripping, will invariable find either your chin and/or testicles resulting
in instantaneous swelling of either region of the male anatomy.

Ghost
05-31-2009, 10:43 AM
These are great.

f_inscreenname
05-31-2009, 12:15 PM
I have almost all of them happen in the last couple months.
I still would like to try to burn things in the shop though. :bonk:

MOP
05-31-2009, 02:08 PM
I have a tip about pop rivet removal, I drilled thousands when I was in the USAF. Punch the stem out start the drill then lean it off to the side a little, that will cut the head off pretty quick. I had to drill a lot of S/S rivets on engine cowls they were always oily and spun real fast, the tilting the drill trick was taught by another old timer.

HOWARD O
05-31-2009, 03:06 PM
I have a tip about pop rivet removal, I drilled thousands when I was in the USAF. Punch the stem out start the drill then lean it off to the side a little, that will cut the head off pretty quick. I had to drill a lot of S/S rivets on engine cowls they were always oily and spun real fast, the tilting the drill trick was taught by another old timer.

hehe, Rosie, the ANTI-riveter?

zelatore
05-31-2009, 04:43 PM
I believe I read that list in a Peter Egan article a few years ago - ?

yeller
05-31-2009, 05:34 PM
I'm embarassed to say I own all those tools and commonly use them as described (including the pipe wrench and ratchet addition). :bonk:

The Damm-it tool is my most frequently used, although I call it something else........