Gratuitous tool usage for mundane purposes

[Pete.]

I put my aerosol paint cans offset in my 3 jaw on the Harrison and put the spindle on slow for a 10 min stir....sometimes i turn metal with it too

I do the same but I use a jubilee clip.

Dropbox

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[arian]

Laser level for the Christmas tree. Mind, it's started leaning now

 

[Onoff]

Mines chrome!

Who does?

 

[Keithmac]

I've smiled a few times looking at my motorcycle lift thinking the value in my tools out on it are probably worth more than the bike I'm fixing..

 

[Wallace]

Vernier height gauge, surface plate and angle block to mark out hole centres in sheet materials topped off with an optical centre punch for unnecessary accuracy. Then punch pilot holes with a Whitney Roper and drill to size.

 

[stuvy]

Vernier height gauge, surface plate and angle block to mark out hole centres in sheet materials topped off with an optical centre punch for unnecessary accuracy. Then punch pilot holes with a Whitney Roper and drill to size.

What’s wrong with closing one eye

 

[stuvy]

But is a kettle a tool?
It's a grey area...

Ask your missus

 

[dobbslc]

I used my lathe to repair the toilet roll holder a few weeks ago. I could have just glued a bolt in but where's the fun in that?

 

[fizzy]

I put my aerosol paint cans offset in my 3 jaw on the Harrison and put the spindle on slow for a 10 min stir....sometimes i turn metal with it too

Have you tried parting off yet

 

[fizzy]

Used a leaf blower to bleed up a machine the other day that had run out of diesel, it was minus plenty and I wasn’t feeling the love for the hand primer. Poked the blower into the filler neck and sealed around it with a rag, job done in seconds

Bob

I have used a wet/dry vac for something similar - also great for getting airlocks out of pipes. Why blow when you can suck

 

[stuvy]

I have used a wet/dry vac for something similar - also great for getting airlocks out of pipes. Why blow when you can suck

Voice of experience?

 

[roofman]

I do the same but I use a jubilee clip.

Dropbox

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that's a better idea than mine as the paint can go end to end

 

[Erie Fred]

I used my lathe to repair the toilet roll holder a few weeks ago. I could have just glued a bolt in but where's the fun in that?
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Much better T.I.R. doing it your way....which is very important....

 

[Farside]

Heat gun doubles up as glowplugs, had a mate with a diesel jeep that would only start if you blow dried it’s air intake

Oily or diesely rag on fire used to do that.
Nothing changes with old ***** kit.

 

[James1979]

Oily or diesely rag on fire used to do that.
Nothing changes with old ***** kit.

Seen one get sucked in when it fired

Bloke did the honourable thing and put the air filter back on, called out the fitter and denied all knowledge

 

[Other Daniel]

I used my lathe to repair the toilet roll holder a few weeks ago. I could have just glued a bolt in but where's the fun in that?
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It's exactly these types of jobs which allows SWMBO to fully
appreciate the importance necessity of having a lathe at home.

 

[dobbslc]

The only problem is that the new bog rolls the wife buys are the much bigger Aldi ones and they don't fit

 

[RichardM]

that's a better idea than mine as the paint can go end to end

A guy over the road used to take the plastic cap off, spray nozzle off, wrap them in a towel or two and chucked them in his tumble drier for ten minutes - warm and shaken.

 

[Agrismith]

I used my lathe to repair the toilet roll holder a few weeks ago. I could have just glued a bolt in but where's the fun in that?
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What about this for when the toilet roll holder breaks. Only required induction furnace, power hammer, anvil, and a variety of other blacksmiths tools (It was made for me )

 

[Other Daniel]

What about this for when the toilet roll holder breaks. Only required induction furnace, power hammer, anvil, and a variety of other blacksmiths tools (It was made for me )

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You could have used a couple of black headed screws ...