"Here's your sign" (Oz style)

[leehljp]

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.

[dkerfoot]

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...

[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.

[jking]

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.

[jspelbring]

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!

[Tom Slick]

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.

[luteman]

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

[Wood_workur]

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

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.