Mark posted this classic Devil’s Dictionary of a DIYer’s definition of tools on Dinosaurs and Robots:
DRILL PRESS:
A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings objects across the room, denting the freshly-painted vertical stabilizer which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.WIRE WHEEL:
Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench at the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, ‘Oh sh*t’ELECTRIC HAND DRILL:
Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age.SKILL SAW:
A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
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