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The only tool in our cart that has a name is the 2 lb sledge "Doomhammer." In 2009 we were packing up from a demo and in cleaning up we found what we guessed to be another teams packing list, "Doomhammer" was at the top of the page and a student happened to be putting the sledge away so the name stuck.

At the regional this year one our mechanical students was helping to get a rookie robot through inspection and he said "be right back, need to get the Sawzall and the Doomhammer from our pit to finish this," the look on the faces of the rookie team members were priceless.

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Also, while it's not a tool, we do have the "BFC" (pretty sure people here are smart enough to figure that one out) in the back room for which we have never found a use. I believe it was originally purchased back in 2008 to actuate an arm that never went on the robot (it was supplanted by a far-superior scissor lift).

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Our Harbor Freight MultiMeter is the "One Time Use" or the "Well, There's Something Detector"

Our Hammer is the "Persuader"

We also have several "Special Tools" including a T-Handle with some 3/8 threaded rod on a block, though nobody is sure what it is for, and a bent flat-head screwdriver for the WAGO connectors on the PD board

Oh, and my personal favorite, we have the "Big Wrench/Big Screwdriver" for anything bigger than reasonable.

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Our pit is "Molly World". Molly is our Pit Captain.

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We call our heat gun the "Nuclear Blow Dryer" (so called while describing it to a freshman)

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portable band saw: Rambo saw
deburring tool: DBT

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We have rather large c-clamps that we call "Big Bertha"

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oooo, I've got a couple.

Auto Body Hammer: Baby
Old Deadblow Hammer: The Persuader
New Deadblow Hammer: The Alternate Persuader
18 inch Crescent Wrench: Bertha (always said in a manly voice, must be carried over the shoulder).
Old tool box filled with random stuff: Miscellaneous Crap Box (you can find one of everything in here! :D )
Old computer in the corner: NDOL (Not Deserving Of Love).
Old CAD Laptop: The Craptop
Harbor Freight: Horror Fright (Or Nathanmart)
Tool box next to the mill: Kyle's box of magical wonders! (shortened to Kyle's Box).

Our pit is now called "The Purple Fortress" after we overheard another team refer to it that way.


Naturally there are many more that would be... untasteful to share on a public forum :P

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May team 587 ever sort through a problem without at least once mentioning the great and powerful 'Mallet of loving correction' ;)

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I forgot that computers are tools.

We named our first Classmate "The Baby". The netbook that replaced it was "Lil' Sis". Our new driver station laptop is "Big Sis". Our very old seldomly used programming laptops are now dubbed "The Craptops", with their overstuffed bag that's been tearing for 6ish years dubbed "The Craptop Bag".

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Kandi is our wire stripper.

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We call our ball peen hammer "Big Bertha", and our 2 foot long flathead screwdriver "Excalibur" :)

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We had a rubber mallet named "Champagne" once, and one named "Stanley."

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Here is the list for my Team:

Hammer (which caused a fun trip to the ER) = Concussion Inducer
Big Tool Box which we bring to competitions = Monty
Labview Laptop = Gorge (pronounced Jorge)
Laptop which was recently returned to us (after 2 years) that does not work anymore but we keep around because we cant throw him away = Kevin
3 Desktops in the Shop = Amy, Rory, River

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the most comon one for myself ans some poeple on 3572 "i need the thing that does the stuff that i need to do this thingy that im doing"