I was wondering about the ways everybody else uses their tools.
For example, my 11mm open end wrench works for both the heads on the countertop bolts I get AND the nut that hold a Moen bath faucet on. It’s the only wrench of that type I need to keep in my bag.
I have seen regular drywall knives being used by a pastry chef as a dough scraper and chocolate tempering tool.
The lid to a small pail of tile adhesive works really well for making the circle in the subfloor for a toilet flange.
Anybody else?
Please have fun with this and no politics please.
rg
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For the culinerarily-challanged there's the Tim Allen grilled cheese sandwiches with a blow torch and two shovels.
I really do use my plumbing torch for creme brule - to carmelize the sugar on top of the custard. If I put it in under the broiler, it often goes to far. I feel I have more control with the torch. A friend uses hers when extracting a chocolate cake from a cake form. Heating the metal makes it slide right out
My wife always has the sharpest razor knife in the house (I'm not allowed to touch it). She uses it to score the top of a bread loaf when it is still dough. If not perfectly sharp, it just tears it up.
It goes the other way too. A pastry bag (for filling pastries and doing decoration with frosting) work great for grouting tile. Puts the grout where you want it instead of all over.
everything's a hammer...
'cept a chisel...
that's a screw driver!
Jeff
Buck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Artistry in Carpentry
"everything's a hammer...
'cept a chisel...
that's a screw driver!"
And a screw driver...
which is a chisel!
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
Re:"everything's a hammer...
'cept a chisel...
that's a screw driver!"
And a screw driver...
which is a chisel!"
Don't they teach kids nothin these days. Everyone knows that a screwdriver isn't a chisel. It's a prybar. After you tried to use your pocketknife as a prybar, should have used a screwdriver, it becomes a chisel. Need to keep all this straight and jerk up these youngins right.
Aficionados also know that a framing square makes a dandy drywall hatchet, also for removing those 2by sections you have kerfed multiple times if you swing it overhead, and a 1" wide tape measure makes a handy drywall trowel when held extended between your hands. Break the tip off and it also works as a fish tape.
I use a turkey baster to clear the concrete dust out of holes drilled in cement, when using wedge anchors..
I constantly use my screw driver multi tool, paint,finish and any other can opener, chisel, punch , light hammer and the list goes on
Darkworksite4:
Estamos ganando detrás el estado de Calif. Derrotando a un #### a la vez. DESEA VIVO LA REVOLUCIÓN
Ah, the turkey baster. I lived in Northampton, MA for a year. Some of the wommynly couples wanted to have kids. Minimal male involvement. Thanksgiving, foundation work, and conception. That's pretty versatile.David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska
Ah, the turkey baster. I lived in Northampton, MA for a year. Some of the wommynly couples wanted to have kids. Minimal male involvement. Thanksgiving, foundation work, and conception.
That sounds like an interesting procedure, any chance you could post some pics?
John
I heard about it but wasn't there. Physically, visually nor genetically.David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska
found out one day that a cats paw works well as a hammer to nail off some door casing. sure glad the home owner didn't see.
Daniel
" I was wondering about the ways everybody else uses their tools."
Ricky,
Depends. If it's a Craftsman and guaranteed forever, it can be used for whatever you want. Just make sure to pick up all the pieces so you can return and exchange it.
Jon
I have a Delta profile sander that makes a nice door stop.
Im really assamed of you guys.. No one mentioned Duct tape..Its a clothes repairer bandaid, , clamp and just about anything else you can think of
Darkworksite4:
Estamos ganando detrás el estado de Calif. Derrotando a un #### a la vez. DESEA VIVO LA REVOLUCIÓN
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36753.11 in reply to 36753.1
I have a Delta profile sander that makes a nice door stop."
Armin , that was very good . LMBO.
Tim Mooney
For those of you that have some difficulty spreading sr mud on inside corners for taping;
Use a barbecue mop and a painters bucket . It rocks for even a beginner. Not a bad method at all for a carp that does his own finish mudding. One old pro I know still uses the method and he makes good wages doing it at least. I stole it from him , twernt my idea.
Tim Mooney
What's a Barbeque mop?
(I'm invisioning the ol' dude cleaning the floor in the back of the BBQ joint)
(I'm invisioning the ol' dude cleaning the floor in the back of the BBQ joint)
Thats too funny !
This mop in mention has a little handle about 12 inches long and the mop is a little round ball about 2 inches round . Use it like a paint brush in the pail with thinned mud. Its amazingly fast coating both sides of the angle at once.
Tim Mooney
Tim, I get the picture but still don't think I have ever run across a bbq mop. Where do you get them?
You ought to post that in the section on great tools under 20 bucks.
Karl
I dont have a clue where city boys get them . We have a general store hardware store that keeps them.
Tim Mooney
Thanks for clearing that up. I think I'm gonna hafta get me one of those for the next time I do mudwork.
A belt sander turned upsidedown makes a great chizzle sharpener. And if you drill a small hole in the bladeguard of you circ. saw , with a few sizes of aquarium tubing hooked up to your garden hose you have a wet saw that can cut 4 ft chunks of marble. A 3 ft by 2 ft piece of welders steal can be turned into a giant razor blade, that you can then pound with sledge hammers into a 2 ft thick adobe wall and jack the whole house up while you rebuild the foundation under it. Ohh and a carpenters pencil can make a great shim if you don't have any around
jason
my meat cleaver sometimes does double duty as a hatchet
I can't let Tim "The Comeback Kid" Mop up here.
I use a pipe wrench to pull form stakes out of the ground when stripping footing forms. Giving a full 360° twist breaks them loose from the ground and then I can use the handle to up with them.
Another double duty one is my cheapo ladder, the old ones that are not safe to climb on anymore. They get used as painters racks for prepriming casings and other moldings.
I am glad that my DW portable tablesaw has a teflon coating on it, 'cause too many f'n' idiots think it is a coffee table.
I'm surprised at how many guys think that their boot toe is a sledgehammer. Talk about double duty!
Then there is the fool who tried to use my TIN snips for double duty to cut asphalt shingles with like as though they were scissors!
TAILGATES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone ever use a tailgate for something other than gating their tails? Those things must see quadruple service, at least.
Excellence is its own reward!
I use old credit cards to strike out caulk joints on countertops and backsplashes. Has just the right rounded corner to leave a little cove.
A buddy of mine uses a skateboard to move doors around the site. We're talking 3-0x7-0 solid core commercial doors.
back in my hunting days, my hatchet did double duty as a meat cleaver.
m
The BBQ mop is a great idea, but there is a bent metal drywall knife that can scoop up the mud, and press it right into both sides of the corner.
I made a 30-60-90, and a 45-45 90 square out of plywood that are about 3 ft long on a side for laying out stuff on the floor.
Bamboo skewers come in handy when you want to peg something and don't want a nailhead.
The tailgate is a desk, sawhorse, nap station.
Those gallon size plastic bags are good for mixing up a little epoxy or water putty without making too much mess.
Good Luck rg
Or to split the chest plate.
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
I once used my 3/8 VSR drill to mix up some cookie dough when DWs mixer crapped out.
She was making chocolate chip cookies, so I had to. Not getting chocolate chip cookies constitutes an emergency in my book.
Q: What's the difference between government bonds and men?
A: Bonds mature.
One time I used one of those cheap red plastic sleds to get the tools and the 5-8 ft bookcases through the front yard, down the hill, and into the patio entrance on the lake side of the house. Minnesota ingenuity.
rg
Ahh..the wheelbarrow lazyboy...zzzzz