Tools explained....

[lacroupade]

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, s---t"

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,
unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

VICE-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.

OXY- ACETYLENE 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 in launching wood projectiles to test 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 aluminium 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, also serving as a handy chisel.

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, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, while being worn, along with anything else, except for what really needs cut, due to the fact that they are usually dull.

Son of a BITCH TOOL:
Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling "Son of a bitch" at the top of your lungs.

It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

[briggie]

brilliant

[clivvy]

awesome, love it!

[Terranical]

You got a camera in my garage?

[kbekl]

i gave up throwing them as it got expensive as i could never find them again lol so now i just whack what ever caused the problem lol

[rustic]

Ahhhh....

You are in big trouble..........



You forgot to add..............





The dreaded ANGLE GRINDER




Does sound like my garage also, My father used to use the phrase " Blast and Set Fire to It" This came 2 seconds before the wrench or mole gripe were despatched at 90 mph and rebounding off the wall before cracking a headlight or indicator lens.


The advantage now with modern tools, if they just happen to fly across the workshop, you can normally recover them as they have either got a mains cable or air line still attached.

Any way I procrastinate, back to my Mav oil change,
Spent 10 minutes trying to get the filter strap wrench onto the fiter, gave up, thought I would just go in through the passenger wheel side then thought....
try removing it by hand, so back on with the rubber gloves, and it came undone no probs. Just letting the oil drain of the chassis, front diff, suspension struts, wing, bonnet, floor, .
Back to it, 3/4 fill new filter and add to the oil spill, I don't know what BP were worried about, they haven't changed a Maverick oil filter before, had they...