Many tools don't come with instructions, this may help.
Phillips- screwdrivers. they come in several forms, (like cheese) sharp, medium and blunt They are designed to tear out the top of any screw head , also, they can be used to open a brake fluid container, the blunt one's cause squirted fluid to land onto the closest painted surface. Electric drills are used to see how fast a pop-rivet can be spun before the hole will need a 'metric' upgrade rivet.Can be used to turn chinese drill bits a really pretty blue. Vice -grips can be used to change round tubing into flat tubing, getting rid of that empty space down the middle, also to clamp stuff to other stuff in order to drill the wrong size holes in the wrong place, again. Portable grinders are excellent 'eye-ball' finders, also ear-hair and grease-soaked rags can easily be reached by the pretty sparks, .Guards usually get in the way so are removed before use, then lost. Chisels are mainly there to guide the first few hammer blows to get your fingers. A drill- press. should be powerfull enough to jam a drill bit into something you are holding by hand, (soon to be a bloody stump), begin a fast spin, near your belly, family jewels or chin, (depending on your height), finally that something flyes off across the shop seeking the most expensive stuff to hit, goes instead through the window into your neighbors driveway (the one you don't like) hits his classic Jugo, causing $30 in damage, almost totalling it . Air wrenches are handy to break bolts, and making really cool sounds,(like a tire store) Zing-Zing!. A tool box, is a place of mystery where the tool you searched for yesterday, and couldnt find, appears today, right in front. also, any adhesives in your toolbox, suddenly become open and spread all over, and cure, glueing all your favorite tools together.( ask me how i know) Box cutters are designed to cut really deeply into whatever it was that came in a protective cardboard box. Hose cutters can be relied on to cut hoses a little bit shorter than you wanted. Hammers, handy gadgets for bending nails, and putting dents in stuff. Twelve-point sockets can be made out of worn- out six point sockets., then sold as 'barn find Whitworth sockets'. Wire strippers will only stop cutting both plastic AND copper when the wire is now too short. Rotating wire wheels are used to remove finger-prints( from fingers) and to fling little bits of wire into eyeballs. Magnets are handy to remove little bits of wire from eyeballs, and to have fun with grandma's pacemaker. Hacksaws can be relied on to cut any way but not straight. Electrical testers are used to 'let the smoke out' of any device that it's hooked to. can also be used to start a fire, without matches. Funnels, little end down, usually. i hope this helps to enhance our 'tooling around'. monty ps if the handle of your soldering iron gets hot, change ends.
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Monty, oh wise one... please help me with soldering irons. My hand is smoking but the blunt end still doesn't melt the solder.
sounds like a fluxing problem! Tussock, try the other, un-blistered hand, you probably got a left-handed iron, shoulda read the package! i feel guilty stealing your idea, but i'll get over it. hugs farts and cuddles, or as the tokyo salesman said, " you wanna buy my rinkan, or my kaddarak"?
You're welcome to my joke, Monty, if I can borrow some of your flux. 'Keep your rinkan, I gotta toymota."
Man...so true, so true. I have had many of these experiences. Nicely put!