Tools That Drive You Crazy
Junior User
Joined: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by FarmLaw
Liftmy250,
That sounds more like a personal problem than a tool problem. Hot girl, problems with spewed fluids and an inability to lift your tool?
Perhaps you should see a doctor??? 
That sounds more like a personal problem than a tool problem. Hot girl, problems with spewed fluids and an inability to lift your tool?
Perhaps you should see a doctor??? 
Cargo Master
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 2,466
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From: northern kentucky
Me and my best friend are vampires. Well at least for staying up all night we are. That said we are always working on vehicles it seems after the sun goes down and neither of us has a garage. I have all kinds of work lights. It seems I have developed a fetish for work lights. I compare worklights like women compare shoes. Cheap socket wrenches make the hair on the back of my neck stand up and scream. Nothing worse. It's not that I buy them but my dad keeps picking them up somewhere.
Junior User
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 65
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From: Dryden, Ontario
Gotta second the flat head screwdriver ... and might as well add the Phillips one along with it Good for pry bars... little else....
Thank god for Robertson and hex head screws... haven't had to drill anything out in a while now.
Good for pry bars... little else....Thank god for Robertson and hex head screws... haven't had to drill anything out in a while now.
Junior User
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 59
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From: Albuquerque, NM
I'll see your router and raise you a hand plane. I'm never able to keep mine in trim. And for all my practice, my welds always look horrible. The worklight used to be a problem too, but I found a better way. I just wind a cheap strand of clear christmas lights through the engine and chassis. Works fine.
Tuned
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 355
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From: Oregon
Speaking of work lights that area pain....anyone remember the snake light black and decker made a few years back?
I still have one of those. Got it for Xmas when they first came out. I did find a use for it, though. I wrap it around a hull brace in my duck boat and use it to light up the bottom so I can see to untangle my decoys.
I haven't found another use for it yet.
I also have a fluorescent trouble light that drives me nuts. Great light, stays where I want it, but the friggin' rocker switch is in the handle so I turn it off accidentally every time I pick it up.
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Laughing Gas
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,169
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From: Whitby, Ontario, Canada
I have a few different 3/8 drive ratchets. I always grab the craftsman because it has the socket release button. The other ones I have don't have this feature. Nothing is more annoying than try to pull the socket off of the ratchet with greasy hands! This happens mostly when you only have one hand free to change sockets!!
But then thats what slot screw drivers are for!
But then thats what slot screw drivers are for!
The Pacifier
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 8,245
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From: Cloverdale, BC
My two newest impact guns both leak air. And it's not the connectors, it's something internal, like an o-ring or something. Drives me nuts. All my other air tools don't have this problem, just the impacts.
Posting Guru
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,574
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From: Seattle
Another vote for the slotted screw driver - AND the fastener itself.......OK a hundred years ago, but ENOUGH ALREADY, time to let it die.
The slotted screw....#56 on my list of things I just don't 'get'.
The slotted screw....#56 on my list of things I just don't 'get'.
Postmaster
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Muskegon, MI (home)
My dad has this older 1/2" Milwalkee hammer drill which generates insane amounts of torque. I love that drill but I swear it has something against me! Almost everytime I am drilling steel with it, the drill bit will bite just as soon as it's about to come out the other side. It doesn't matter if I let of the trigger that damn thing still wrenches back and twists the heck out of my wrist, it feels like it's gonna rip my friggin hand off! If that doesn't happen, it will mash my knuckles against the nearest hard or sharp surface! No Mercy I swear! 