Odd uses for regular tools???

I recently found a video that we took a year or so ago of using a super cheap air hammer to open a can of beans because we were starving. I was wondering if anyone else uses certain tools for odd jobs or uses they weren't originally designed for. For us it happens all the time because we dont have the money to spend on special tools and i have a few like home ground skinny adjustable wrenches and such.

http://youtu.be/eU-34L2cZ30

 

ever have the tab break off on a beer can? now I know how to open

 

Not sure if i would go that extreme....

 

I had a fellow working in my shop that I saw studying a box end wrench so I asked him what he was looking at. His reply was guitar chord patterns.

 

Made a column drop out of a wrench....Cant even tell its a wrench.....

 

sink basin wrenches work perfect for sending units.

 

At one time or another,everything in my garage turns into a hammer.

 

Yep basin wrenches i have used for O2 sensors and larger stripped bolts and lug nuts, And anything with decent weight is a logical hammer.

 

Look up "fucking machines" on Google.

 

I was replacing rubber bushings in rear spring on later model truck. I took the bolt out of a 7" 3 way puller, put a large washer and new rubber bushing on one end, put that through the spring eye and then put the other bushing and a washer then the threaded thingy for the 3 way,,tightened it up to pull the bushings into spring eye. that's it,,,my brainstorm for 2012!

 

I got a big wrench I got at walmart as a joke one time. I use it as a hammer and pry bar.

 

I was hoping this would just give some ideas of other ways to use what you have which "jazz1" made that point pretty clear and a good idea....

 

here's one i got from an old man just as he was dying, it was hard to understand him, but here's what he said; "you can use a slothead screwdriver to open can of paint" i don't know why he said this as nobody in the room asked. then he asked us to get off his breathing tube.

 

You know those harmonic ballancers install tools?

They work good pushing on the lower crank gear if you use a 2" piece of pipe between the gear & the tool.

No need to hammer shit on

 

I used an electric drill with a beater attachement in it when my electrric mixer shit the bed... cheese cake came out good!

Bob

 

Hahaha! Have you creamed the cake with a grease gun?

Gearhead to the bone!

 

Oddly enough I used a pry bar to crush my pinky once.

 

WTF? Dude that is creepy...

If you've never tried them, get a set of "tap sockets". They allow you to use a 1/4" or 3/8" ratchet to drive in most common sizes of tap. HUGE time saver when tapping multiple holes.

 

"Tools Explained"


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, shit!"


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.

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 especially well on contents such as
seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines,
refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Particularly useful for slicing
the work clothes you are waring.

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

 

that & large hammer to break toes

 

Made a throttle linkage by welding a couple of old 7mm wrenches together

Also made a tool for "gutting" catalytic converters out of a prybar and a 14mm impact socket to replace the handle. It still works as a pry bar, but if you stick it in an impact gun you can empty a cat at the speed of light.

 

forgeting to fully screw down that from spark plug after your compresson test and
starting the engine to listen to it realy makes a cool looking hole in the thin tin on the side of your shop .. but only if you leave your hood open..

REMEMBER.. the trick is to LEAVE THE HOOD OPEN..

 

A small 3/8" socket extension makes a good handle when using cord to fit a rubber glazed glass in with. Tape the ends up so you don't slip and scratch a garnish moulding or dashboard

Dan

 

Who hasn't used vise-grips as window cranks or door openers......

 

Just had to use heat gun to remove piss stain after reading Turbota400's post

 

"The mark of a true craftsman is the proper misuse of his tools"

 

I paint all my tools red so I can find them when they are thrown at the neighbor's pissin' dogs. ... only lost one 1/2 inch ratchet in the weeds.

 

I always thought that was more of a durogatory exclamation than an actual desciption.{ NO! I didn't go look!}

 

I've removed pressed in hat bushings by threading the bushing ID and using a bolt, big washer, and an appropriately sized socket as a spacer. Turn the bolt in, and the bushing comes out.

Also works for removing stuck brass from reloading dies without buying the $35 tool.

I also used a drill as a hand mixer before. It works pretty well, and the variable speed gizes good control.

I carry a 4D maglite in my DD...drop the batteries out, and it makes a goodlug wrench breaker bar.

You know how they print, "Mot a prybar, chisel, or punch." on the handle of every snapon screwdriver? Well, they happen to work particularly well for that purpose.

 

I built a press for refretting a guitar from a $5.00 flea market purchase and a rubber motor mount, a socket and abn extension.




Also, I use one of those pry bar nail pullers to protect my fingers when using the wire brush to clean bolts and parts.


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