[AT] Lightening up the tone around here

[Cecil Bearden]

That reminds me......  My old mentor who taught me to be a mechanic, 
called a crescent a Mexican Snap-On!!!  Go ahead and disparage OK.  I do 
it all the time and it is deserving...
Cecil

On 2/25/2020 9:36 PM, Phil Auten wrote:
> Not to disparage Cecil's Home state, but down here in TX we call an 
> adjustable wrench an "Oklahoma Socket Set". I hope this one does not 
> offend anyone but we call vise grips a "Mexican Speed Wrench".
>
> Phil in TX
>
>
> On 2/25/2020 7:02 PM, Cecil Bearden 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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