Names of Tools

[Lil' Lavery]

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.

[dubiousSwain]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

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.

One of our mentors labels everything. He put a "refrigerator" label on our mini fridge.

[jspatz1]

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.

[apb2390]

Our team likes to refer to those little ClassMate laptops as 'JankMates'.

[Lightfoot26]

Originally Posted by jspatz1

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.

Yea, We used to name our batteries names like "Old Gregg" but in 2010 picked up a new, more standard, naming convention. We now use the NATO phonetic alphabet to keep track of our batteries for very similar reasons. It comes in handy, many a times I'll hear myself saying "NO!! *INSERT FRESHMAN* WE JUST USED ALPHA!!!" lol

[AlexH]

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"

[Woolly]

Originally Posted by jspatz1

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.

I remember seeing the labels on the batteries at competition.
We're actually thinking about taking up a similar practice, but using military vehicle project names such as "Blackbird" and "Phantom".

[panicnot42]

We've named our batteries Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde . Not the first team to do so, however

[Annemarie433]

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

[FilthyArgonian]

Some people on our team call tin snips "Cut-Whatevers"