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TOOLS OF THE TRADE -
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TWEEZERS:
A
tool used for removing wood splinters.
PHONE: Tool
for calling around to find another hydraulic floor jack.
E-Z OUT BOLT AND
STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than
any known drill bit.
TIMING LIGHT:
A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease buildup on crankshaft pulleys.
TWO-TON HYDRAULIC
ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and
hydraulic clutch lines you may have forgotten to disconnect.
CRAFTSMAN 1/2 X
16" SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an
accurately machined screwdriver tip on one end.
BATTERY
ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from a battery to
the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a doornail, just
as you thought.
AVIATION METAL
SNIPS: See hacksaw.
TROUBLE LIGHT:
Sometimes called a drop light. Its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs. More
often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.
PHILLIPS
SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and
splash oil on your shirt. It can also be used, as the name implies, to round off Phillips
screw heads.
AIR COMPRESSOR:
A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and
transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact
wrench that grips rusty suspension bolts last tightened 40 years ago by someone in Detroit
and rounds them off. CTS
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