Any strange tool terms?

[tatra]

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.

we call them flat ratchets at work..........and i refer to adjustables as vernier wrenches.........

 

[Bolster]

At machine shop class, if you ask for a lubricant when cutting aluminum, the cribmaster will give you a puzzled look, then correct you:

"Oh, you want cat piss," he says, and hands you a squirt bottle filled with a slimy yellow liquid.

 

[regguy1]

we call them "women in comfortable shoes"

"we call them "women in comfortable shoes".....who do their own carpentry work

 

[watsong]

radiator hose tool= nosepicker
3M yellow weatherstrip adhesive= gorilla snot

 

[fatboy99]

Adjustable wrenches = mexican speed wrench or farmer fits all

 

[FoMoCoPower]

whatchamacallit

 

[ZRX61]

Heres a Donkey ****

Around here that is a called a Horse ****....

 

[Merkava_4]

We called that a "green hairy"

Who's we?

..........

 

[Nuts]

Order a can of panther piss at NAPA and you will get WD40.


Nuts

 

[mik641]

adjustable wrench= nut f***er
eyecrometer
earcrometer

 

[TireTracks]

Adustable wrench- nut rounder, or polish hammer( only heard that once)

cutters- Dykes

Sledgehammer- Mexican makes it fit or precision hammer

 

[nate379]

Ah the good old calibrated eye.

I pissed the #2 boss off at work. He hung some bullentin boards up and when I came in I told them they were off by about 1/4".

He has used his fancy dancy $200 laser level so he said I was full of ****. I bust out a tape measure and sure enough, all 3 high on the left side by 1/4".

Everyone else seems to think they are straight so that's how they stayed. Apparently I work with a buck of **** eyes.

 

[Elroy]

Commonly refered to as an "Arthur"

 

[volpster31]

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.

if you used the capital letters in that definition,they would be called 'dics' which is the exact opposite of dykes if you ask me

 

[Cameronl]

Who's we?

..........

Staff and councilors at Camp Koinonia in NY.

Back in the 70s, the older kids' groups had to cook their own breakfast and lunch at their campsites. At the end of the session, there was a big pot scrubbing event, and you weren't dismissed until your pots were inspected and approved. The camp was stingy about handing out "green hairys", and scrubbing an aluminum pot with a well worn one was tedious. It was like "Oliver Twist" to go up to the staff member on the platform and ask, "Please sir, may I have a new green hairy?"

The veteran campers and councilors were wise to the trick of coating the pots with soap before cooking on an open fire.

 

[Hlidskjalf]

Nobody here does any sheet metal work?
We call these "ni**er lips" maybe you see it, maybe you don't.

 

[ZRX61]

Nobody here does any sheet metal work?
We call these "ni**er lips" maybe you see it, maybe you don't.

Visegrips with those jaws have the same name around the airport

 

[ZRX61]

Those flexible pick up tools with the plunger thingie & 3 or 4 grabbers on the other end are known as "Ovary Snatchers"

 

[Shadowdog500]

Another that calls 3M trim adhesive gorilla snot.

B.F.H short for big f#*%?*g hammer

B.F.S short for big f#*%?*g screwdriver

3M Self adhesive rubber tape is called "***** Tape". If you saw the girl that regularly hawked that stuff at the fleamarket, you would call it that too. Her booth always had a crowd.

Chris

 

[Shadowdog500]

Didn't the food taste like soap???

My camping trick is to fill the pot with soap and water as soon as the food comes out and put it back on the fire while eating. By the time you are done eating, you have hot soapy water for dishes and the pot is usually squeaky clean.

Chris

 

[Spareparts]

How about "Crows Feet" sockets.

 

[Ser50]

How about "Crows Feet" sockets.

thats one of those actual definitions.

like the butterfly gun.


italian micrometer is the best thing ive heard so far.

 

[JeepsAreBuilt]

whatchamacallit

dohickey ?

 

[ozzy214]

Ya make sure ya sell the customer the $9.95 grease the muffler bearing service and the $39.95 half a pint to fill the turn signal fluid up.

 

[jayrush13]

we always call our dikes "ellens"

 

[dr_clyde]

by gf's dad has interesting names for stuff... He calls his oxyact. torch the twocan penetrator and a hammer the polish press. clamps of any sort are jeds, and flashlights are darkchasers. he calls the anti-seize lube the never sneeze, and everyone i know has always referred to the hand impact as a butterfly impact.

 

[Cameronl]

Didn't the food taste like soap???

Chris

Every once and awhile someone would make that mistake.
You coat the OUTSIDE, to make it easy to clean the soot from the open fire.
Cleaning the inside was easy.

 

[FrankieD]

When I was in landscaping a couple of the guys called the long handled shovel a banjo.When we had to dig a trench they would say it was time to play the banjo!

 

[Ocular Engineer]

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

I like to call it the BFH or "John Henry"