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By *r and mrs sanddancer OP Couple
over a year ago

BOLDON COLLIERY

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 callouses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, ‘Oh shit!’

DREMEL: 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.

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. May also have value in quickly removing various fingers and thumbs.

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 50p 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 to 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

cheques, and rubber or plastic parts.

Especially useful for inadvertently

slicing work clothes and fingers!

By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

you forgot these 2

lathe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adHU3TAnNAg

the grinder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22Q46dIwug

theres another where a lady has her hair caught in the machine and its scalped her

the small one has had me the bigger one has dug into what I was working on

the lathe I have one and yeah I do know its dangerous as hell