Wolffarmer wrote:Even today when I see someone ( even me ) miss use a tool I mentally call them "Primitive Pete".
Small world. I too remember this movie (when I saw it it was projected from film onto a screen, so not a video).
For many years I kept an old Stanley flat blade screwdriver in my tool bag as a "beater". It was specifically designated as the "use it for anything" tool. Prying, wedging, chiseling, anything goes. It had been ground back so many times that it was a mere shadow of its former self and could no longer be used for screws. The shank was just a tad bent, perfect for prying really, but the handle was still in tact, complete with rubber grip over yellow plastic handle, despite years of hammering on the end of it. I even used it as a wedge to stop the rope bundle frame on Mr. B from being winched too far forward during erection (more properly described as "deployment"). Unfortunately I loaned it out at work and it never came back to me. One of my best and most used tools... sorely missed.
(Update 9/14 - Found my old screwdriver in a coworkers tool bag and promptly stole it back!!!).
Hey, I have been complimented on my technique of properly using and adjustable wrench as a hammer; you just have to know where to hit it on the back of the fixed jaw so as not to damage the edges of the screw thread hole.
I am, after all, a professional mechanic.
My Ford wrench (bonnet wrench) that was probably my grandfather's at one time, came back to me with a chip in the jaw and a bend in the handle after loaning it out at Dale's place. Damn monkeys. That wrench was probably a hundred years old and they abused it with a pipe on the handle and poor fitting. Bastardos.
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:48 pm
