+ and - bits

[rvr6000]

Looking for suggestions on how to cure my better half of calling screwdriver bits "plusses" and "minuses". Figured there's no way she could get a square drive bit wrong.........nope.....it's a "box" bit.

Don't even get me started on how she reads a tape measure...."three lines past the big line".......hahahahaha.

 

[Will67]

Lol


Had an arts class in high school (80s) and the teacher gave us an exam on reading a tape measure. I passes 100% and I say thanks dad for making me help you remodel the house as a kid. In college I had a roomate that would have failed that test. I am blow away by people that have NO mechanical aptitude at all.

 

[neonnblack]

reminds of the post in the tools of the CL ad for pokey tools.

 

[NUTTSGT]

We hassled a guy at work one time about his lack of tape measure reading skills that he went home that night from work, pissed off.

 

[slip knot]

Bought my wife one of the easy read tape measures. The little marks are numbered as well. Real time saver for me. now if I can just teach her the skinny or fat part.

She also calls the bench vise a "table clamp" Took me a while to figure that one out!

 

[Conn'swhiterose]

It actually surprises me too

A Robertson is commonly referred to as a "square drive" and was invented by a fellow named P L Robertson....Henry Ford was his first big customer....over 700 of these fasteners used in his first production cars.....

 

[Ray-CA]

I had a friend of mine call out measurements as "5-ft, 6 1/2 inches + a line" or minus 2-lines. He'd go to the nearest 1/8th inch and then say + or - how many lines. It actually worked out pretty well once I had the translation down.

Ray

 

[mrb]

do the same to her. in her kitchen.

 

[slip knot]

do the same to her. in her kitchen.

I did!!! who knew there was a difference between tsp and Tbs. Everything was real salty for a while till I got that one figured out.

 

[WRX/Z28]

Print this out, and glue it to her makeup mirror.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_head#Phillips

 

[Steevo]

Be glad that your wife tries at all.
Mine would just tell me there's a loose screw that needs fixing.
I'd be thrilled if she wanted to take something out to the garage, squeeze it in the table clamp and turn the minus screw or push it with a pokey tool.

 

[Stuey]

Show her a Torx/star and hex. If she doesn't get those...

 

[mrobins297aaa]

mine use to call a square a "L".........I guess it looks more like a L than a square.......lol

 

[garboui]

I had a friend of mine call out measurements as "5-ft, 6 1/2 inches + a line" or minus 2-lines. He'd go to the nearest 1/8th inch and then say + or - how many lines. It actually worked out pretty well once I had the translation down.

Ray

This through me off a bit when i worked with framing crews for a very short stint. Though it would be called as hard or soft measurements instead. ie. 12 and 7/8" hard for 12 and 15/16"

 

[green.bubbly]

Around here, a Phillips bit is called a four corner screw driver.

I despise tape measures with the fractions written on them. My eyes make me want to go to the nearest mark with a dimension written instead of the actual measurement.

 

[Kevin54]

My wife knows the "slot" and "phillips" but I always call a slot, a "Standard". She corrects me everytime.

 

[rburke65]

My wife gives me hell for using HER needle nose plires and not putting them back in the kitchen drawer.

 

[greaseyjockey]

Print this out, and glue it to her makeup mirror.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_head#Phillips

Thanks for that link, I'm an Automotive tech and I use multiple types of fasteners and bits every day and I thought I had a pretty good collection of bits. Granted I'll probably never come across a TP3 head, or a pentalobe, but if I do I'll know what to call them. Good read.