Comments on: Top Ten Non-Tools for a Tool Box

By: The Trade Show Guru

The Trade Show Guru — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:21:40 +0000

hi Rudy,
I’m not sure what “Dual Waterproof Firing Assemblies” are… but I’m pretty sure I’d blow my fingers off if I was playing with them, so I’ll leave that to someone else! Thanks for dropping by! ~ Steve

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:16:30 +0000

I’ve used condoms for “Dual Waterproof Firing Assemblies.” — NOT.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:02:17 +0000

Hey Todd – I have been in that same position, sometimes having to improvise to get whatever it is put together. And I am VERY skilled at that sort of thing. I have been building furniture and stuff my whole life. Years ago I even had a jpb where people paid us to go to their house and assemble stuff they had bought.

Sometimes when assembling something now, I end up wondering if I am having trouble, what is the average person going to do?

By: The Trade Show Guru

The Trade Show Guru — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:18:26 +0000

hi Todd, LOL on putting together the “wally world puzzle”. I hear you brother. But that’s were a big hammer really comes in handy, as well as a roll of duct tape for when you realize those two pieces really WEREN’T meant to go together. And then I suppose a stress ball would come in handy! Thanks for dropping by! ~ Steve

By: Todd Morris

Todd Morris — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:50:37 +0000

Hey Steve,

I’ve got one for you.

Since I still haven’t achieved my goal of having enough money that I can always buy furniture which somebody else has put together; from time to time as I’m sitting on the floor with my latest Chinese made wally world puzzle; I’ve found an essential “non-tool” to be …

One of those little stress balls, that I can squeeze in the hope that it will distract me from using some of the words I wouldn’t be too thrilled about having my 1 year old daughter (who is started to mimic) repeat.

Keep havin FuN!
Todd

By: The Trade Show Guru

The Trade Show Guru — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:12:52 +0000

hi Will,
I hadn’t thought about the logistics of getting Chuck to stay in the tool box. Good point!
I took closer look at the wikipedia page on other uses for a condom, and several are a bit disturbing and could fall into that category of “more than I want to know”. But if you read the last “other use”, it is “Condoms are used as a one-way valve by paramedics when performing a chest decompression in the field.” Nothing wrong with saving someone’s life!
And finally, MultiTool is probably one of the most active forums I’ve seen. And if you post enough in it, I think you earn the designation of “member of the No Life Club”. ~ Steve

By: Will

Will — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:42:09 +0000

I once tried to keep Chuck in the toolbox but he would get upset every time I closed the top and I got tired of having to buy new toolboxes.

And as to your link on #14. The first listing on “Other uses of condoms include”, makes me think that I now know more than I need to about this subject.

That multi tool forum is something else. I would never have thought it would be so active and popular. “253,373 Posts in 12,882 Topics by 1,468 Members.” Amazing! That is an average of 174 posts per member although of course it is unevenly spread among the members. Several of the non-moderator, “normal”, using the word loosely, members have thousands of posts. Some people have too much free time indeed!