[AT] Lightening up the tone around here

[Stephen Offiler]

Yup, my dad (born 1921, just passed away last year at 98) always called
slip-joint pliers "water pumps".  Another I got from him, diagonal cutting
pliers were "dykes".  Spencer's "nut lathe" is a really good one, never
heard that before.  How about "flame wrench" for an oxy acetylene torch?
Then there's "monkey wrench" referring to that older style of adjustable
wrench that looks something like a pipe wrench.   Micrometers are "mikes"
but that's an obvious one.  I hear some (mostly outside the USA) refer to
dial indicators as "clocks".  That surely relates to similarities in the
mechanism.

SO

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 8:08 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> Channellocks were always referred to as water pump pliers here. A pipe
> wrench was referred to as a Stillson, any crescent wrench whether or not
> is was made by crescent was a crescent.
> Cecil
>
> On 2/25/2020 6:43 PM, Mike M wrote:
> > I've always heard them referred to as an "All American Metric"
> >
> > Mike M
> >
> > On 2/25/2020 6:19 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> >> I just read a great name for an adjustable wrench:   someone
> >> derogatorily called it a “Nut lathe”.
> >>
> >> Now that’s funny.   It made me wonder if there are any other great
> >> tool names that I have missed hearing all my life?
> >>
> >> Spencer
> >>
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