My team has some “creative” names for our tools and I would love to hear other examples
Here is a short list of our tool names
“Finger Cutters”- a pair a wire cutters that are perfectly sized for fingers
“Shank Makers”- name for our files
“Revolver”- name for the weird electric screwdriver included with the kit of parts, also referred to as the “Sonic Screwdriver”
“Fasatners”- someone misspelled fastners when labeling some of our storage and it stuck with us
We would call the deadblow hammer the maraca back in the day. We also had googly eyes on it.
Snips: flush cutters
Good Snips: Hakko CHP-170
Folding hex key sets: FedEx cares
“Persuasion” is our rubber mallet
We’ve called them “key cards” until we got the ones that say FedEx cares.
Also flush cutters are flesh cutters.
Kids on the team call these right-angle drills “penguin” drills because apparently they look like a penguin??
Glad to see we aren’t the only ones calling them FedEx cares. We have even named our GitHub repository that just to show how we know without question that FedEx cares
the problem solver: our orange dead blow hammer
and then theirs is the electrical fixer which is a hot glue gun that works so well and has fixed all of the electrical problems we had at competition.
We do this too! No idea why. Ours had also been called El Penguino at points.
Not my FRC team, but my college robotic design team.
We call our orange mallet “big orange wrench” and tin snips “the big angry scissors”
I don’t emotionally trust anyone who doesn’t call a mallet a persuader…
Our orange deadblow is referred to as “the motivator”
Also our new Milwaukee Installation 4-in-1 was quickly dubbed the “Willy Wonka Drill”
FYI…totally worth buying…
At one point we called our screw drivers tape measures and our tape measures screw drivers.
“The Persuader” was the name of our giant metal mallet until we got a better item to take that name.
we call our mallets “bonks” but thats about it. lol
can confirm, that is a penguin drill.
Like others, we have a name for the dead blow - The Convincer. Hex shaft not sliding through? Needs a little convincing…
The 1/8" allen key for the VEX shaft collar screws is “Loopy Boi”. We have many of these as they get lost easily.
when i was a student, some of us called white lithium grease ranch. it has yet to catch back on.
