Strangest Thing Done With A Tool/materials

dlcj

I also mentioned the superglue bandaid on tips of the trade thread. I use WD40 as a flame thrower to kill wasps.

Cdat

I once used it to lube a M-2 HB machine gun. Flames were shooting out the sides four feet.

I prefer to just light it up 'cause it looks cool.

jadleybray

Spade bits make great chop stiks!!

GRB

An ex-girlfriend made a pan of brownies that were so hard a sharp knife couldn't cut them. I went to my truck, got the cordless recip saw out, chucked a metal cutting blade in it, & liberated the brownies.

Soon after, I liberated myself from the crazy dame.

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Greg

roofer up north

... nail puller as a fork for macaroni salad ...

Sar-Con

Used my cordless and an auger bit to remove a cork from a bottle of wine.

Brutus

I've used a hammer driven into the side of a stud to either pull up or give my self an extra step up from time to time. Sucks being a 5'7" framer...

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Brian Peters

I've used a cordless drill with a small bit to drill through my blackened left thumb nail to relieve some pressure...

Sar-Con

Used the wifey's rolling pin to put down vinyl sheet flooring in a small bathroom.

And she'll never know unless one of you rats me out!

dsconstructs

A sharp small bit will drill in with fingers fairly easy into fingernails, can't imagine having a drill doing it.

Heated up needle will burn a quick small hole through as well.

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donerightwyo

I had a wood stove being installed in a new house. He had the pipe stacked from the basement up through the middle of the house ready to go into the attic. The guy says, "you mind if I use my 22." Hell, I didn't know what he was talking about. I said sure. He goes to his van and brings in his .22 long rifle and shoots a hole through the roof, from the basement up through the center of the pipe. Not cool. But it worked and he had the hole cut in the roof in no time without going into the attic.

GRB

I'm pretty certain that if he tried that in certain parts of Chicago, there would be return fire.

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Greg

Rich D.

Used my recip saw to cut up a 6' sandwich.

woodworkbykirk

a few times i have taken cans of soup to work for lunch but didnt have a can opener,, a 1"chisel had to do it,


ive done some other odd things but just dont come to mind. im sure all of us have.

regarding the concrete vibrator, this past summer brutus and myself worked on a habitat build. it had an icf foundation, one of the habitat girls got all giggly and red in the face when she held the concrete vibrator

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putting down subfloor with glue and screws, well i saw dr. smith and the robot too , i had a martian burger and a sonic shake

Brutus

snips to open a can of soup.

on those tough days, I've seen guys take a sheet of blue foam and take a nap at lunch time...

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TimNJ

I forgot my caulking gun once and used my hammer handle to push the caulk out

TimNJ

On a job once my friend got is truck stuck in the mud so we tied his extension cord to my bumper and pulled his truck out with it.

Tinstaafl

I've carried one of these on my key ring for decades.

rosethornva

There was some fellow in Sedalia, MO that used his .22 rifle to create a hole for the cable wire he was trying to run through an exterior wall.

The bullet made a hole in that wall lickety-split, and it also made a hole in his wife on the other side of another wall.

Sadly, Patsy Long of Missouri died a short time later.

http://www.connecttristates.com/news...1#.TxGuQPnntO8

Rose

Inner10

I learned my lesson on that one, I was up at a firend's cottage for Canada day. No corkscrew to be found so I told me friend's wife I would drill it out. Took it inside my SUV and started to drill with a 1/2" twist. Well I guess I leaned too hard half way through and rammed the cork inside the bottle showering myself and the inside of my brand new vehicle with red wine.

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