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Sometimes in the pits we yell out for tools we need. Some of these tools have their own name.
So far we have: Stanley = Dead blow hammer:D Alfonso = Big pop rivet gun:confused: and Bill = Small pop rivet gun:eek: I was sondering what some of the other teams call their tools and what they actually are. |
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The only nickname I have for a tool on 1675 is the Maraca (dead blow hammer)
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Pretty much every freshman calls the swaging tool the swagging tool.
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We call our hammer The Persuader.
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we call our hand-held vaccum 'seņor'
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Not really tools, but this year we found several heavy chunks of metal in our room. The largest of these chunks had a printed label on it, naming it "The Negotiator."
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The hacksaw is named Sal, the wire stripper is called Shanaynay and the crimper is named Sheniqua. Sheniqua is the older sister of Shanaynay. Also...our angle grinder is named Big Red(it's big and it's red...and dangerous). Friedchickenisha is the jigsaw and our mini hacksaw it's called Ralph.
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my adjustable wrench is named wrenchy. I made him a bed in my locker/cubby out of extra rally towels and safety glasses
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We have a Bosch driver that we call "our little German friend."
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449 has a long history naming laptops/printers/most non-robot electronics. We have a laptop named Leo, Elephantine, Asus of Spades, etc. We also have a printer named George, and a vacuum named Louis.
We also have a ball-peen hammer named 'Big Pappy' and a lockjaw plier named 'Da boom boom' Don't know where it started, but calling the tools by the names we give them is more fun than saying, bring us laptop #2. |
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Of course, there was also that bizarre tool which no one could identify which saw much (improvised) use in fixing the 2008 AndyMark mecanum wheels (anyone here remember those? Oh boy...), which eventually became known only as "the fix-y thingy." |
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we call our drill the fuego (name of the actual drill) our giant pair of pliers are called the man pliers, and the large steel pipe we use to gain leverage on a vice is called the old man
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Are wire stripper is called the "14 dolla stripper" and we also call our drill press drift "the shank"
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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"
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Caliper next to the lathe/mill = "Excaliper" Small flathead = "Tom's thumb" LED ring = "A thousand suns" |
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"The Thingummy", sometimes also known as "The Thingmabob"- whatever our programmers are pointing at
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We have a broom that has been repaired and rebuilt six or seven times named Frankenbroom.
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Some people on our team call tin snips "Cut-Whatevers"
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In electrical, we have two strippers. The really nice one is named Kandy. The old, bad one covered in sticky botom-of-the-toolbox gook is named Alphonzo
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Our best classmate netbook is "Happiness" and any small standard screwdriver is a Wago (best pronounced in a count von count voice as VAH-goh). The printer that our scoutegy subteam took to champs is now called "Betsy." |
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our broom is called "The Pry Bar"
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Some of our alumni started the tradition of naming (and labelling) all of Dawgma's machine tools (and some other tools). I don't remember most of the names off hand, other than the vacuum cleaners' (which get used the most).
The large shop vac is named Willard, and the portable one is Bill. |
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The most popular tool in our box is a long phillips screwdriver named "Big Red."
On a related subject, I'll bet some other teams have named all of their batteries like we have (it is a practice we picked up from 1625 Winnovation.) We actually become very familiar with each battery by name, and remember which ones won important matches, which ones are a little weaker than others, etc. Our current roster of competition batteries: Franklin Neil Mackenzie Freebie Oprah Michael Gary Sandbag Darwin Pedro Plus two batteries reserved for alliance partners: Tonto and Wattson. |
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Our team likes to refer to those little ClassMate laptops as 'JankMates'.
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we were using a 96t chop saw blade that kept throwing teeth. i think it ended its life with around 80ish teeth. we called it "deathblade"
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We're actually thinking about taking up a similar practice, but using military vehicle project names such as "Blackbird" and "Phantom". |
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We've named our batteries Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde :). Not the first team to do so, however
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