Tools and their actual use. Defintely worth a scroll down to"Hydraulic Jack"


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 knuckles and flings
your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part that
was set aside to dry.

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, "Ouch..."

ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until
you die of old age.
Also useful for spinning drill bits in reverse until the tip glows red.

PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads.

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: 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.

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
you want the bearing race out of.

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.

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. Sound familiar

EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering an automobile upward off a
hydraulic jack handle.

TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood and metal splinters made from a magical
material that turns invisible when you need it, and re-appears when you don't.

PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbors to see if he has another hydraulic floor
jack. Also useful for calling the parts store and complaining that the moron at
the counter gave you what you asked for, and it's not the right one.

SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading
mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog poop off your boot.

E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill
bit that snaps off in bolt holes you absolutely have to have.

TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the tensile strength on everything you
forgot to disconnect.

CRAFTSMAN 1/2" x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large pry bar that inexplicably has an
accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end opposite the handle.

AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.

TROUBLE LIGHT: The home mechanic's own tanning booth.
Sometimes called a 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, it's 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.

PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin
oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name
implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.

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 a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last over tightened
58 years ago by someone at Chevrolet, and neatly rounds off their heads.

PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the expensive metal surrounding that clip or
bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a .50 cent part. Also used to
bend or break expensive, irreplaceable, collector car parts.

HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut 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 not far from the object
we are trying to hit.

MECHANIC'S 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, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund
checks, and rubber or plastic parts.

DAMMIT TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while
yelling "DAMMIT" at the top of your lungs.
It is also the next tool that you will need.

 

 

wow i guess i'm not the only one who uses jacks for body work