Useless Tools

Stoday · Post by **Stoday** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:26 pm

What's the most useless tool?

I think this takes the biscuit, unless you've lost your centre punch:

Usless Crap

Enliven · Post by **Enliven** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:42 pm

Boa strap wrench. Utter bobbins.

Geewizz · Post by **Geewizz** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:56 pm

I'm not sure that a postcode search tool would replace a centre punch.

I've bought some real stinkers in my time. I made the mistake of buying a cheap pickaxe head that bent on the first strike. Then there were all the gadgets I bought which were meant to save time or effort but ended up costing me both.

The most useless tool I have ever come across belonged to a company I used to work for and caused no end of confusion for several days. It was a simple alcohol thermometer which was placed on the ground to enable us to keep track of the temperature during the winter and to avoid laying mortar when it was likely to be frosty.

It took days to discover that the tube was mobile within the casing and the reading varied by up to five degrees C because the moulding hadn't been set tight enough. It ended up in the foundations of a bridge.

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:03 pm

if this dosnt work put in your postcode then try again once youve found your local lidle

http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages ... ng_Jig.ar1

Welsh Decorator · Post by **Welsh Decorator** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:34 pm

Why would anybody want one of them??????

Geewizz · Post by **Geewizz** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:54 pm

They sell cheap chocolate biscuits.

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:27 pm

files/bolster_287.jpg

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:39 pm

Re-pointing guns

Metalwayze · Post by **Metalwayze** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:56 pm

I thought the three toolboxes are pretty pointless. Who wants a toolbox for a toolbox that holds a small box of tools?.

Oh I see, you're s'posed to carry tools in all three! Yeah brill!

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:00 pm

Colour Blind electrical engineer?

(well we had one on my college course 25 years ago

)

Geewizz · Post by **Geewizz** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:18 pm

thescruff wrote:files/bolster_287.jpg

wow! I've got one just like ....

oh.

Mooncat · Post by **Mooncat** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:04 pm

Tools I've bought on street markets!

Hole saw that came apart on first use, files that looked ok blister-packed, but didn't cut, jigsaw blades that get hot, don't cut but burn their way through. external calipers where the "C" spring broke in the drawer before I had ever used them.

Anybody ever seen a Rotoplane? An attachment for an electric drill I bought 40 years ago, where the chuck was removed and a flat 4 bladed cutter installed. It did work, but gave a concave surface.

Hoovie · Post by **Hoovie** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:13 pm

Mooncat - that reminds me of when I bought a axe from Homebase for around £25 - nice hickory handle, etc.
Then went into a hardware shop later that day and saw what looked a very similar thing for £5

So I asked what it was like and the shop assistant said "ah, it's rubbish. Fall apart on the first chop"

Interesting selling technique

So not only street markets! (though I agree with what you say totally)

lockie · Post by **lockie** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:53 am

I once had an aluminium oxide sharpening stone.Absolutely useless as the chisels always dug into it and ended up blunter than before you started.Cant beat a decent caborundam.

stevemastic · Post by **stevemastic** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:44 pm

I have a uni-screw drive bit