Common rules of tool usage

[baylensman]

Saw randy's post thoguht I'd add this

 

LAWS OF TOOLS AND TOOL USAGE:

1.)The tool closet to hand is never the tool you need

 

2.) The most useful tool in the tool box is the tool most likely to break, be borrowed or lost, and is out of stock at the local tool store.

 

3.) Your wife thinks all your tools are ICKY and wonders why you don’t stop using them on greasy stuff.

 

4.) Any tool lost from a set is the most commonly sought after tool in the set (often called the 9/16” socket corallary)

 

5.) The time a tool is most likely to hurt you, is when showing someone else how to do a job, or (very rare)When a cute girl walks into your shop.

 

6.) Any sentence that starts out “hey may I borrow…. “ Means go buy another one, NOW!

 

7.) Expensive metal shears can cut anything but sheet metal. Sheet metal gets scarred, folded, bent but never cut!

 

8.) Your best tools are never bought because of a need, but because they are “COOL”

 

9.) Power tools save absolutely no time in the shop, because all of the attachments are designed to be lost/broken after 1 use.

 

10.) Using another man’s tools is just plan wrong!!!

 

11.) Telling your wife to get a particular tool is a good way to get her out of the way for at least an hour.

 

12.) Your Vise-grips are still holding the mower blade on the tractor you fixed for you neighbor last year.

 

13.) Circular saws that are being put down after cutting, have a strange attraction to power cords while the blade is still spinning.

 

14.) All tool collections require at least one tool, that A) you have no idea where it came from, B) you have absoluetly no idea how it works and C) Somehow migrates to the front of the drawer /top of the pile center lowest peg with out ever touching it.

 

15.) Any time you go out and buy a replacement for a lost tool, when you put it away after careful thought so it doesn't get lost again the place you choose willbe right on top of the one you couldn't find (the caulk gun corrarally) I've got 4 brand new one use caulk guns now!!!! And they're not the cheapo's

 

16.) you must laugh uncontrollably after you wife call your screw drivers "pluses" and "minuses" instead of phillips and plane head.

[SilvrT]

10.) Using another man’s tools is just plan wrong!!!

 

 

10a.) Asking if you can hold another man's tool is also wrong ....