Names of Tools

FIRST General Forum
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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 ‘señor’

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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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Hey, don’t forget that all of our boxcutters are Stanleys. Also, I don’t think you were around for the best Laptop name - alas, poor Yorick! :stuck_out_tongue:

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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Funny our team calls our hammer “The Gentle Persuader”. I have no idea why though. ::ouch::

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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)