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Apr
What A Tool
I’m not exactly a DIY fanatic, but I have a toolbox (I am a man after all) and I occasionally like to take the tools out and look at them. Taking up cycling has given me the opportunity to buy new, different, tools and occasionally take them out of the case and look butch whilst holding them.
Anyone, however, that has ever so much as put a nail in the wall will appreciate this list all about tools at Tony Rogers.com
Some favourite excerpts:
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.
PLIERS: Used to round off hexagonal bolt heads.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and squirt oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off the interiors of Phillips screw heads.
Before women get too knowing, reading this, consider your own toolkits:
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April 17th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Oddly enough, theirs often works as well or better….
April 17th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
hey, I use those all the time. I didn’t realize you had my tool chest, not I know where the kids put it.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
My husband was trying to “man open” a jar the other day, and not having much success. I took spoon out of the drawer, used the handle to break the seal on the jar and handed it back to him. Gee, it opened very easily then….
You just have to use the right tool for the job!
April 17th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Now that I did laugh at!!
April 18th, 2007 at 1:19 am
I like the pic. plenty of times I have used a shoe as a hammer or butter knife as a screwdriver.
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April 18th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
April 19th, 2007 at 12:15 am
I like the plier definition. Stupid cheap roundable bolts!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:11 am
I’ve rounded out plenty of screws & bolts in my time!