Worst Tool Abuse / Misuse

[Tim Lamb]

Umm... barbed wire is usually secured with 40mm staples. The other problem is that modern posts treated with non bituminous products seem to encourage rusting of the staples.

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[Bob Eager]

Are you *really* asking?

Open up WorkMate with jaws a few inches apart, wide enough for cable reel to drop down....diameter of reel parallel with long axis of Workmate. Copper tube through reel, rests on two sides of Workmate and G-cramp holds tube from rolling.

Or anywhere else you like to put it, I guess...

[Mary Fisher]

Women whose husbands take the garage/workship keys with them everywhere have to do the above - and others - all the time. We don't regard it as abuse but as invention. Necessity demands it.

Mary

[doozer]

Well funny you should say that because I had to go creeping round our house a 5 in the morning a couple of days ago armed with a 1" bar from a barbell set because SWMBO woke me up thinking there was someone in the house. Turns out that the ladder (stored in the living room natch) had fallen over because the projector screen, which it was tied to, had slipped down a little. I would have been funny at any other time.

[John Rumm]

From school days, how to open a bottle of wine with only a pair of mole grips and a screwdriver...

Use driver to remove screw from bathroom door hinge, clamp into mole grips use as corkscrew before returning screw to the hinge!

[bigcat]

If its a contest, I think youve won!

NT

[Lobster]

I'd envisaged the copper tube being aligned with the long axis of the workmate, being gripped in the vice, protruding from the end, and couldn't see how a G-cramp fitted...

Much better - and I can see why you wondered why on earth I was asking the question!

I'll be doing some wiring this morning so will give it a go!

David

[nightjar]

It took you six months to paint a ceiling?

Colin Bignell

[usenet]

A pair of pincers used to pull horses' shoes off is *well* able to cope with "40mm staples" I can assure you!

[Bob Eager]

It was the Sistine Kitchen...

[doozer]

No :o). It worked well enough that I used it for most of the ceilings in the house.

[Mary Fisher]

How did you get the paint off the hinge?

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

LOL! That's cheered me up this morning - first smile of the day :-)

Mary

[The Natural Philosopher]

Scaffold tubes and planks to make a rolling slipway for a portakabin towed by an insustrial tractor..

Angle grinder disc mounted onto hand held drill to cut soil waste pipe lower than floor *from the inside*

A blowlamp makes a useful cigarette lighter when SWMBO has nicked all the others and put them in her handbag.

Broken telscopic aerials make great drills if sharpened, into very soft material - balsa or foam...

[Bob Eager]

That reminds me...once used a dumb-bell and a 3ft piece of wood with two battens nailed to it to move a 25ft boat about a mile. Wood under keel, dumb bell under wood...about eight people round the boat, and we just 'walked' down the road...

[John Rumm]

I don't recall it being a problem - so it was either not painted that well, or it was easy enought to chip away from the screw head (probably using the mole grips as a hammer on the end of the screwdriver!)

[usenet]

Hey, that could be a possibility for my portakabin disposal problem (see another thread). I have all the requirements:- portakabin scaffold poles (could use round fence posts too) tractor

The only problem is that I don't really have a destination! :-)

[Mary Fisher]

[usenet]

South Suffolk.

[Mary Fisher]

Oh. a long way from west Wales ...

Well it was a thought.

They make excellent poultry sheds ...

Mary