Any strange tool terms?

[Denominator]

When I was new to the garage and car hobby I was from time to time very surprised by some of the terms the mechanics use for their tools.

In Norway you can walk in to ANY hardware store and ask for a:

Pig **** - and you get this:

N***** Pu**y - and you get this:

The last one is today NOT as accepted as earlyer days.

Any of these strange terms for tools where you come from?

 

[tatra]

impact guns refered to as nutters...............

 

[caper]

Breaker bars known as Johnson bars.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

A rolling wedge type prybar known as a "Ladys Foot"

Charles

 

[volpster31]

everybody i know calls diagonal cutters "dykes"...never did understand why

 

[SSGTWC]

everybody i know calls diagonal cutters "dykes"...never did understand why

we call them "women in comfortable shoes"

 

[MarcSeattle]

everybody i know calls diagonal cutters "dykes"...never did understand why

diagonal cutters
di cutters
dikes

 

[Az Scooter]

we call them "women in comfortable shoes"

I thought those were nun's?

 

[Wesley B]

N***** Pu**y. That is the funniest thing I have seen on hear for a while.

 

[joelee]

..............well a guy was in the shop the other day and referred to his ***** as a "pump handle" LOL does that count???????????????

 

[greenreese]

This tool is called a F.A.G.

 

[y20dth]

N***** Pu**y - and you get this:

The last one is today NOT as accepted as earlyer days.

Any of these strange terms for tools where you come from?

As far as i can remember, they luckily don't feel the way they look.

 

[Broncoman]

I've always called a hammer a "pecker", makes for some funny looks from people who have never been around me before when I ask them to hand me the pecker!

 

[Monte]

A adjustable wrench is sometimes called "Englishman" over here


the "N***** pu**y" is commonly called "N***** cookie" over here....

 

[Ser50]

A rolling wedge type prybar known as a "Ladys Foot"

Charles

i didnt think that was weird at all, but i am canadian eh,

if thats the case i think chickens foot (puller) deserves mention

crescents/adjustables are called Metric Adjustables as a joke around here

 

[Merkava_4]

Silver *****

Green Weeny

 

[mrshaun]

dog bones = torque adapters that is the only one that I can think of.

 

[Ser50]

i think the names of supplies (steel wool and such) is a slippery slope. theyre sort of tools, but not really and have too many strange names.

Chicken Wing

 

[Ser50]

Hot-Wrench

 

[Mugen AP1]

I 2nd the "hot wrench"

Our shop if you add a pipe to a wrench or allen key it's called a "cheater"

We had a 15lb sledge that we called Elvis (as in "the king" of hammers)

 

[Ser50]

Our shop if you add a pipe to a wrench or allen key it's called a "cheater"

i forgot about that one, a plumbing term that i use for that is 'Snipe'

We had a 15lb sledge that we called Elvis (as in "the king" of hammers)

we call all of our large SO prybars 'Conan'

'pass me that conan' if youre checking kingpins or something

 

[Ser50]

i get weird looks when i call this a butterfly

but im pretty sure this is the exact name

 

[nate379]

We have a couple 1" drive impact guns at work we call "Big Bertha".

What you guys are calling a lady foot we call a lady finger or booger grabber.

Water pump pliers for channel locks.

 

[Dale B]

The cutting outfit is also known as a "Smoke Wrench" or "Flame Wrench" Engine hoists are commonly called "Cherry Pickers "

 

[deathbound]

We call the 11R Vice Grips...."skin grips" & sometimes heard them called "cowboys"

8# sledge hammer....commonly referred to as a "beater" or "apology getter"

 

[porschedude996TT]

When I was in Aircraft Manufacturing biz, we had some strange tools.

Winslow Drill (Drills and Countersinks two rivet holes for a nutplate)

Scholbert Tube Rivet Gun (Installs Tube Rivet for nutplate)
Dogleg (Hand tool the counter sink a rivet or screw)
Butterfly (Hand tool to deburr sharp edge of sheet metal)
Hole Finder (Used to transfer a hole to mating sheet)
C-Squeeze (Pneumatic Rivet Squeezer with opening shaped like a "C")
Countersink Cage (Countersink hole for flush rivet or screw)
Bucking Bar (Used opposite the pneumatic rivet gun to set rivet)

 

[Even 11]

I have an adjustable wrench we call a "polish ratchet/hammer" since I heard my buddy call it that a few years ago.

-Dane

 

[Tatersalad]

At my shop dykes are called "happy people", my mg725 is called big mama, and a Snapon flank drive plus wrench is referd to as a "spanner with notches"

A guy I work with nicknamed "Tuba" (use your imagination) calls any type of hose a "**** tube" his extentions are "extender buttons" and his old ir244 is "grandma mama", plus any number of other sayings he has that should probably be left unsaid here. At least I have things to laugh at during the day...

 

[Cameronl]

Green Weeny

We called that a "green hairy"

 

[harvero]

i get weird looks when i call this a butterfly

but im pretty sure this is the exact name

That's what I wast taught to call this tool back in the 70's and that what I call it today.

 

[jwitt]

We had an old guy at work that called this a ping-pong hammer

Jim

 

[Mickey O]

everybody i know calls diagonal cutters "dykes"...never did understand why

Invented by lesbians?

From Wikipedia, Dikes (a portmanteau of "Diagonal CutterS" is pronounced "dikes"), that's what I always thought it was as well but don't know it that's it origin for sure, makes sense though.

 

[Ign]

O/A torch = blue wrench

Crescent or adjustable wrench = all-sixteenths

 

[JeepsAreBuilt]

Heres a Donkey ****

 

[mrshaun]

58 inch mayhew prybar = customer adjuster
big hammer = BFH
the hand impact is a butterfly impact. thats the onyl name I have ever heard anyone call it.

 

[MarcSeattle]

Invented by lesbians?

From Wikipedia, Dikes (a portmanteau of "Diagonal CutterS" is pronounced "dikes"), that's what I always thought it was as well but don't know it that's it origin for sure, makes sense though.

Why would lesbians call themselves diagonal cutters? Hmmm, I'll have to think about that one.

 

[logical]

Don't forget the Pickle Fork, although I just realized some tool makers actually label it that way.

 

[autobody]

Maul of America is what we call this at my shop, since we are in Minnesota.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

dog bones = torque adapters that is the only one that I can think of.

Double ended ratcheting box ends are also know as "dog bones". Gear wrenches have replaced them in some places but where I work, they are still quite common.

Charles

 

[FrankieD]

We used to call adjustables-many sixteenths.A ballpein hammer was an Italian micrometer.