Tools That Drive You Crazy
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Tools That Drive You Crazy
Own any tools that just flat out embarrass you when you use them? My top choice in this category would have to be a wood router. I've owned a nice one for years but anything I touch with it comes out a bungled mess.
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craftsman quickwrenchs from a few years back, the most useless wrench ever made, i cut the open end of all of them and use only the box end.
bob vila wrenches i call them, nothing better to bust open your hands with. mastercraft also has their version called accerator wrenches, just as bad as above but the had so many left that they started putting in combo kits with socket to get rid of tham cause no one would buy them.
bob vila wrenches i call them, nothing better to bust open your hands with. mastercraft also has their version called accerator wrenches, just as bad as above but the had so many left that they started putting in combo kits with socket to get rid of tham cause no one would buy them.
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No question about it, my trouble light. Never found once that stays puts and puts the light where you need it and not in your eyes. Then when you try to take it out, it hooks on everything and can't be moved.
Don't even get me started on burnt arms and hands.
Don't even get me started on burnt arms and hands.
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Originally Posted by jschira
No question about it, my trouble light.
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From: Cupertino, CA
Originally Posted by mistercmk
I know how ya feel about the trouble lights. I can never seem to keep a bulb in them. If you even bump the dang thing the bulb dies.
I didn't know that, until I made an exasperated comment to my father many years ago, and he clued me in. Haven't had a problem since (though I mostly use my fluorescent one now), except for the aforementioned issue with keeping it in place (and out of the way).
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Originally Posted by mzimmers
You *do* know that they make a special heavy-duty bulb for trouble lights, don't you?
I didn't know that, until I made an exasperated comment to my father many years ago, and he clued me in. Haven't had a problem since (though I mostly use my fluorescent one now), except for the aforementioned issue with keeping it in place (and out of the way).
I didn't know that, until I made an exasperated comment to my father many years ago, and he clued me in. Haven't had a problem since (though I mostly use my fluorescent one now), except for the aforementioned issue with keeping it in place (and out of the way).
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Originally Posted by jschira
No question about it, my trouble light. Never found once that stays puts and puts the light where you need it and not in your eyes. Then when you try to take it out, it hooks on everything and can't be moved.
Don't even get me started on burnt arms and hands.
Don't even get me started on burnt arms and hands.
This tool gets my vote too.
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i used to have horrible trouble with floor jacks. a hot girl at the farm would need her tire repaired or somethin similar, and i'd pull out my jack and try to lift the vehicle, and blow hydraulic fluid all over the place and the car would set back down. after goin through 3 jacks in 2 weeks i finally just bought a big craftsman one, i think it's either 4 or 5 tons. i dare that one to blow.
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Pitman arm pullers that are not the "bell" style like Snap On, or at a minimum have a bolt through them to keep the arms from spreading. I have had a need to pull a Pitman arm six times in the last year and never once has one of the generic style worked for me. Luckily my boss has a very good relationship with a mechanic that actually lent us his Snap On puller to get the job done. We are going to invest in a Snap On unit so we don't have to borrow any more.
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From: The Big, Oregon
Oil filter wrench, I forget the name of the style, but it works with a 3/8" ratchet, and tightens down two arms as you twist. Grips really well, but it's much better for shredding stuck oil filters and getting oil everywhere than actually removing them.
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Originally Posted by mzimmers
You *do* know that they make a special heavy-duty bulb for trouble lights, don't you?
Any tool that annoys me will have a short life in my collection. The most annoying one from memory was a cheap tap & die set I bought years ago from Harbor Freight. You know - one of those $9.95 sets. I was trying to tap a hole in a hardened material and no matter what I did, the tap just wouldn't grab. After 20 minutes of trying I got frustrated and drove to Sears, bought a small tap set, returned home, and cut the threads in less than 30 seconds. Both cheap sets (SAE & metric) went immediately into the trash.
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From: fremont ohio
Speaking of work lights that area pain....anyone remember the snake light black and decker made a few years back? We had one and never used the thing. But as for tools that drive ya crazy, my one anglegrinder is a pain in the butt. It's got a dead spot in the motor or something. So to use it ya hafta turn it on, and then hit it on something to get it to start. every time my buddies come overto workon something they laugh like crazy when I pull that out.