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> 1. 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, splattering it against that freshly

> painted part you were drying.

> 2. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under

> the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and

> hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to say,

> "SH**!!!"

> 3. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their

> holes until you die of old age

> 4. PLIERS: Used to round off hexagonal bolt heads.

> 5. 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.

> 6. VISE GRIP PLIERS: Used to 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.

> 7. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for setting various flammable

> objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside a

> wheel hub you're trying to get the bearing race out of.

> 8. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and

> motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2

> socket you've been searching for the last 15 minutes.

> 9. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground

> after you have installed your new disk brake pads, trapping the jack

> handle firmly under the bumper.

> 10. EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 4X4: Used to attempt to lever an

> automobile upward off a hydraulic jack handle.

> 11. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing splinters of wood, especially Douglas

> fir.

> 12. TELEPHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another

> hydraulic floor jack.

> 13. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for

> spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for removing dog feces from your boots.

> 14. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes

> and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.

> 15. TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile

> strength of bolts and fuel lines you forgot to disconnect.

> 16. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 ax 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying > tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the

> end without the handle.

> 17 AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.

> 18. TROUBLE LIGHT: The home builder's own tanning booth. Sometimes called

> drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin,"

> which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside,

> its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate

> that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours

> of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is

> somewhat misleading.

> 19. 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.

> 20. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning

> power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that

> travels by hose to an Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last

> tightened 70 years ago by someone at Ford, and rounds them off.

> 21. 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.

> 22. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses 1/2 inch too short.

> 23. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer now-a-days

> is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from

> the object we are trying to hit.

> 24. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of

> cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on

> boxes containing upholstered items, chrome-plated metal, and plastic

> parts.

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