Tool Stuff, That I Was NEVER Taught, EVEN After 70 YEARS!!

[bigtiller]

Yep, but the guy in the store selling them didn't.

 

[dodge man]

How about sometimes you can get a stuck fastener loose by tightening it first?

 

[ruffdog]

If a phillips is boogered up from stripping, sometimes you can flatten the burs with a hammer/punch and then reshape by tapping the correct phillips bit into the head. With all the tapping, they normally loosen easy then.

 

[Cycledude]

So, did you know that the coupler on a grease gun is adjustable?

nope I never knew that until a friend told me little over a year ago, but not all are adjustable.

 

[CADplans]

With ALL the anguish I have over tools in general,,

they have JUST came up with a TOTAL solution,,

Researchers look to once-taboo frontier — psychedelics — to treat 'anguished' health workers

Thirty depressed medical professionals will be treated with a dose of synthetic psilocybin — a psychedelic drug — to see if the drug, can reduce their mental anguish.

www.yahoo.com

I did have to look up psilocybin ,, that is a new word,, to me,,,

Anyone want to join me??

I heard it works like,, magic,,,

 

[Root Cause]

Interesting post. It is proven once again that history repeats itself.

I loved running a manual lathe (many years ago) and having a tool & die background, I once did some research on how toolmaking all started. I expected it to trace back to blacksmithing. What I found went back into the late 1700s and that the British navy was desperate for nuts and bolts to build ships.

The issue was that each village machine shop made their own version of a nut and bolt, and thread pitch. So their bolt screwed into their nut but probably not the one made by those in the next village. So, not only was there a shortage that made them buy differing bolts and nuts, they had to keep them matched, and also had to try and identify and purchase a matching nut or bolt if one was lost. I don't have the link but it referenced a boy who kept running away from the fields to watch the machinists hand file the nuts and bolts with a vise. He became a master at his craft and eventually developed the first screw machine where the travel of the tool holder was tied to the rotation of the headstock. It was the beginning of standardizing thread pitches. After reading some of this thread, it appears that we have managed to outsmart ourselves back into the 1700s. I have since seen other versions of how the first screw machine was invented and no idea which is true but it does seem that history is repeating.

 

[dstig1]

How about sometimes you can get a stuck faster loose by tightening it first?

While I got what you meant, that is one fine typo! Really makes it read funny

 

[lman]

I bought one of these when I started working on my Goldwing.

VESSEL® MEGADORA™ Screwdriver No.900 +2x100 JIS 900P2100J - - Amazon.com

VESSEL® MEGADORA™ Screwdriver No.900 +2x100 JIS 900P2100J - - Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

 

[bcp]

Nails pull easier if you can hit them a time or two to drive them deeper. It breaks loose their grip on the wood.

Bruce

 

[dodge man]

While I got what you meant, that is one fine typo! Really makes it read funny

Stupid auto correct, I fixed it.