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Your best/worst innovative but completely incorrect usage of tools...
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rsjsouza:
Or, as AvE would say: "Lead is known by the State of Cancer to cause California." 
mathsquid:
I needed a large wrench (like 1.75 inch), but didn't have one that big. I did have a small vise that clamps on the edge of my workbench, so I clamped it to a 2x2 and adjusted the vise to fit the nut I needed to turn. It worked reasonably well.
mathsquid:

--- Quote from: sokoloff on October 12, 2018, 05:20:18 pm ---I semi regularly use sockets as receivers or pushers for impromptu press operations (press a 3D printer hot end out of the cooling block and into a socket or use a socket as a pusher to evenly press in a bearing).

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I do this too!
joeyjoejoe:

--- Quote from: paulca on October 12, 2018, 05:15:15 pm ---So... I just used my hot air rework gun to help defrost my freezer.

Unsurprisingly ice won.  It doesn't matter if you hit that stuff with a hot air rework at 450*C or a full on flame thrower ice is self insulating. 

All I could do was speed things up slightly, enough to get the top drawer out.  Now I have to wait while my food defrosts slowly in the other fridge on full.

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Next time you can use a wine bottle with hot water. The narrow neck will help you get to the back to hit the fins. :)
drussell:
For defrosting a freezer I've always found that my grandma's method of putting an electric kettle boiling some water in there for a few minutes works wonders.  In a chest-type deep freezer all the ice chunks will just fall off the walls after a few minutes.  In a fridge with exposed fins that have frozen over it takes a bit longer but is less work than going after it with a hair drier or heat gun, though that can help to get the last bits with minimal effort.

Of course, you need to find an older kettle that doesn't have an auto-shutoff.  Today's plastic crap would probably just melt if you bypass the thermal shutoff switch, even if you didn't accidentally boil it to dryness.

Does anyone else remember a time when appliances were made out of a thing called metal?  :)
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