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Caption This for 4/8/16

Posted April 07, 2016 4:45 PM by LakeGrl
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04/07/2016 5:06 PM

Where can I buy these?

My mechanic said my car needed new muffler bearings installed. When I told him I'd do it myself, he told me I'd need a left handed crescent wrench, but I hadn't been able to find one.

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04/08/2016 6:26 PM

Ikea does a left-handed Allen/hex key, apparently. There's plenty going at the local store following the recent product recall. Nice cheap price? ;-)

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04/07/2016 5:06 PM

Pass me a spanner, one that I can handle this job with.
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04/07/2016 5:22 PM

Looks like a handy tool.

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04/07/2016 5:57 PM

Evolution of the monkey wrench....

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04/07/2016 6:00 PM

Keep around for when someone asks 'can you give me a hand'.

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04/07/2016 6:26 PM

Here is how you can tighten it "finger tight" without wrenching you hand.
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04/07/2016 6:30 PM

I see, so, it's actually a torque wrench

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04/07/2016 7:40 PM

Just another hand wrench!

(Kinda creepy if you ask me)

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04/07/2016 7:52 PM

Talk about a left-handed Monkey wrench...

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04/08/2016 1:15 AM

Hey, throw me a wrench.

What size?

Don't matter, I'm gonna use it as a hammer.
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04/08/2016 3:16 AM

Finally!

A proper vernier for farming! If the nut fits in here it is the correct size.

Very cool and creepy.
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04/08/2016 3:31 AM

Modern Work Accidents

I still think its simply wrong to keep producing such tools after one of the workers was accidentally 3-D scanned and then 3-D Printed.......The Union will roast us!!!

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04/08/2016 3:50 AM

And another handy tool.... . . . . tries to replace the Leatherman.

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04/08/2016 4:01 AM

Is that a "Jack" Wrench, though not to be used for any form of "Jacking......."

Too cold!!

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04/08/2016 4:01 AM

Prosthetics technicians working at a New York hospital, fed up of hearing their colleagues in the hospital maintenance crew claiming that they need three hands to do jobs, are working towards a solution.
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04/08/2016 6:08 AM

Scotty will you stop messing around with the transporter settings.

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04/08/2016 7:40 AM

Supervisor: How the heck did you strip the bolts? I told you 'Hand Tight'.

Worker: Umm...

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04/08/2016 7:41 AM

Creepy really. I vaguely recall from reading a sci-fi story 50 odd years ago, of an advanced society (only technically to my mind) where mutants were being 'grown' with in-built physical extensions and abilities specially for manufacturing things without needing 'other' tools - a multi-limbed freak I would say.

But then again, how many times have you said " I could do with another pair of hands"

From the other end of the scale you could say modern computer driven robotics evolving with AI to become self-producing exactly adapted to survive.

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04/08/2016 8:11 AM

Another over looked "passenger" in Seth Brundle's teleportation pod. Certainly an improvement over a fly.

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04/08/2016 9:17 AM

Oh Look, A Hand me down.

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04/08/2016 9:28 AM

Hey! Pull my finger

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04/08/2016 12:41 PM

Women buy these when their husbands want hand tools for Christmas.

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04/08/2016 5:38 PM

Somehow, this kind of reminds of this quote:

If women don't find you handsome, they can sure find you handy. -red green
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04/08/2016 5:51 PM

Oops - Correction:

If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. -red green
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04/09/2016 5:14 AM

Another one of my Dads hand me downs,

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04/09/2016 9:18 AM

Vernier Callipers for boilermakers
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04/09/2016 10:23 AM

Handy Tools.

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04/09/2016 12:25 PM

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting this when she said if I came round tonight she was going to give me a really special hand job.

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04/15/2016 1:07 PM

If it hasn't been done already, wouldn't a working set of die-cast (plastic/miniatures ?) of these be a good (graduation/novelty) gift for newly-minted (mechanical engineers/others) in recognition of all their (hands-on) experience gained so far ?...

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04/20/2016 10:20 AM

Sorry Honey, I won't be able to do any chores today... I wrenched my hand.

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04/20/2016 10:22 AM

If it won't open wide enough to hold a beer can, I've got no use for it!

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04/20/2016 10:26 AM

"Mike. How'd you get that big lump on the back of your head?"

"When my wife asked for a hand in the kitchen, I gave her this ...

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04/22/2016 3:54 PM

Yep, my dad was the handiest guy I ever knew, so when he passed away I had his hand bronzed.

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04/22/2016 4:02 PM

Hey Chewie, ee broke a piece off of that big chunk of Carbonite, and we got Hand Solo.

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"we"

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04/22/2016 4:06 PM

The radius and the ulna seem to be fused, but frankly I don't see the humerus in the situation.

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