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  • leehljp
    The Full Monte
    • Dec 2002
    • 8764
    • Tunica, MS
    • BT3000/3100

    #16
    A few years ago, HD had left hand and right hand hammers. I bought one and it is my favorite hammer. It is left or right handed by the way the grips are molded.

    I think they discontinued them soon after I bought mine.
    Hank Lee

    Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted!

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    • dkerfoot
      Veteran Member
      • Mar 2004
      • 1094
      • Holland, Michigan
      • Craftsman 21829

      #17
      Originally posted by BobSch
      How about a left handed monkey wrench...

      Don't laugh, there are specialty tool catalogs that have left-handed adjustable wrenches.They're threaded the opposire way so when you hold them in the left hand and push the screw away from you the jaws close instead of opening like a "normal" wrench would.

      It might be fun to replace half of someone's crescent wrenches with reverse threaded ones...
      Doug Kerfoot
      "Sacrificial fence? Aren't they all?"

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      • BobSch
        Veteran Member
        • Aug 2004
        • 4385
        • Minneapolis, MN, USA.
        • BT3100

        #18
        It might be fun to replace half of someone's crescent wrenches with reverse threaded ones...

        That's nasty, cruel, inhumane and rotten.

        I like it.
        Bob

        Bad decisions make good stories.

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        • jking
          Senior Member
          • May 2003
          • 972
          • Des Moines, IA.
          • BT3100

          #19
          Originally posted by breedonm
          Funny topic!

          Here's one I have used several times with colleagues from southern U.S. whenever they make comments about people from Canada living in a deep freezer etc.
          I tell them that when I get home it will soon be time to change the air in my tires, as winter is coming. Everybody here knows you can't drive with summer air in the tires during the winter months!
          Gets them everytime.

          Mike
          We pulled this one on a co-worker several years ago. We had her convinced until none of us could keep straight faces any more. The scary part was she served as a heavy equipment mechanic in Desert Storm.

          On another note, there are different "metric" standards. I just finished working on a project at work for a customer in Panama. We did all the drawings in "metric" only to have their PM request that we change the dimensions from mm to M because that's what they use. It would be too confusing to have the workers try to do the conversions in their heads.

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          • jspelbring
            Established Member
            • Nov 2004
            • 167
            • Belleville, IL, USA.
            • Craftsman 22114

            #20
            EMHO Log

            Many years ago, before the concepts of sexual harassment and political correctness came to the Navy, we had a completely tasteless joke that was played on newbies was the EMHO log. The new person would have to go to each watch leader, and have them make entries in the log. The entries were in the form of innuendos euphemisms. The carrier of the log was not allowed to read it (security, you know), until the last station - the Operations Watch Officer. Once, on my watch, the victim was a young, female Marine. My watch section was about half way down the list, and by that time, she suspected that something was "up". She was a good sport though. She just smiled, and told us that if this was a prank, that she would be back.

            About a half hour later, my supervisor (a large, burly, ex boatswains mate) heard this blood curdling war cry, and saw her running down the passage towards us - 98 lbs of cammioed fury. We ran. And we hid. The OWO let her read the log, then turned her loose on us!
            To do is to be.

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            • Tom Slick
              Veteran Member
              • May 2005
              • 2913
              • Paso Robles, Calif, USA.
              • sears BT3 clone

              #21
              I've pulled the "use this side for inches and the other side for metric" cresent wrench trick on really green Airmen right out of tech school. Snap-on puts a ruler on their cresents with inches on one side and MM on the other, making it really easy to trick them. the funny thing is that we had zero metric fasteners, so we would never have metric tools.
              Then there is all of the typical Air Force tricks like sending guys out with a bucket for some K9P, procuring flight line, echo checking the intake, bounce checking the tires with a hammer, finding and filling out a form ID10T. These were the USAF's newest and brightest young jet engine mechanics.
              Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

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              • luteman
                Established Member
                • Dec 2007
                • 145
                • Northern Michigan
                • BT3100-1

                #22
                I used to tell my wife her car needed to have the fluid in her headlights changed from winter to spring viscosity.

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                • Wood_workur
                  Veteran Member
                  • Aug 2005
                  • 1914
                  • Ohio
                  • Ryobi bt3100-1

                  #23
                  Originally posted by BobSch
                  It might be fun to replace half of someone's crescent wrenches with reverse threaded ones...

                  That's nasty, cruel, inhumane and rotten.

                  I like it.
                  same here

                  Originally posted by dkerfoot
                  It might be fun to replace half of someone's crescent wrenches with reverse threaded ones...
                  I probably wouldn't notice. I have to check which way opens it every time I pick one up.
                  Alex

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