Stop whining and take a joke. You are being over sensitive for no reason.
I bet the OP will never read these responses and admit he/she was having a bad day.
Previous response was by the OP, see the pic? Humor!
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How can you not love, What, a dipstick?
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Personally, I like seeing the old designations come back. They are funny, and it is long overdue.
I wonder why I don’t have one.
@Whitey : Yours is Senior Grease Monkey. It’s the little toolbox to the right of your name. Good to see you back; it’s been awhile.
It wasn’t there before.
Thanks. Yeah, I needed a break. I got tired of seeing all the same questions and the same arguments. I’ll probably participate on a limited basis.
I’m sort of attached to my “duct tape specialist” affixation. It suits me to a T in fact. I just used duct tape the other day in fact to repair a leak in my garden hose, caused when a sharp-spike-filled branch of a lemon tree fell, puncturing the hose with the spike. The hose, after the duct tape repair, it still leaks, but not as much, so sing hallelujah, the duct tape worked!
The last time I used duct tape in a car repair? Why, when someone on this forum suggested the idea of replacing my Toyota’s somewhat faulty ignition key-switch with a lighted rocker toggle switch. Like they use on racing cars. Daytona 500 style. Only this ain’t no racing car. With a little duct-tape and some 18 AWG wire, the Toyota now has an arm-and-fire illuminated red and green rocker starter switch, and I must say it’s a pretty fun way to start the car!
Gentelmen, gentlemen, gentlemen…you are confusing Duck tape with Duct tape! Duck tape, the adhesive cloth tape that you can tear to length, does not meet standatds for sealing duct work and should NEVER be used for doing so (okay, so I did so once). Duct work should only be sealed with aluminum duct tape, NOT Duck tape.
But I do happen to use Duck tape, even color coded, for all forms and sorts of work. And I love the Red Green show!
For the recordm having reconfigured my forced-air heating system, I’ve also used duct tape.
It is true. The gray (or pretty much any print or color, these days) cloth tape we all know and love is not fit for sealing duct work. Duck is actually a division of Shur-Tech and makes some of the best cloth backed tape around, and in more colors and prints than any other company. Other companies probably call their cloth backed tape “duct” tape for fear of incurring legal wrath from Shur-Tech since they own the trademark on the Duck Tape name. The name “duck” for the tape is widely credited with coming from soldiers during WWII who noted the waterproof backing of the tape and how the water would sheet off the stuff like water sheets off a duck’s plumage. It has also been called “100 mph tape” by military personnel due to its use on helicopter rotors, both to balance them and to prevent sand from eroding them. The Navy also has a version of the stuff called EB Green that is allegedly strong enough to patch hydraulic lines.
Tell me how you can get 10 foot long copper pipe, 16 foot long base mouldings, or 10 foot long flashing home with a regular car and not a trailer? Simple-a little duct tape front and back. It does have its uses. I tried to do it when it was dark though, having a little pride. I think I did 100 feet of pipe once.
A “grease monkey” was in use in the late 18th or early 19th century, during a time, before labor laws, where children were use to perform simple repairs and to oil and grease the gears. Many times this was done while the machines were running and many children were injured. The child who did this type of work generally had grease and oil on them.
The term monkey was used on tall ships to describe anything of small size. A jacket or coat that was cut short to allow more movement in the rigging was called a monkey jacket. Thus you had powder monkey (a small person who ran powder to the guns) and rigging monkey (a small agile person who repaired the rigging). So the term monkey probable came from that usage.
The term “grease monkey” was at the time considered something of a demeaning slur. Over time, the negative connotations have faded and the term is generally considered harmless slang.
Just thought I’d add my nickle to the mix, I wold have said two cents, but inflation you know.
I once sold my old late 70’s Pontiac 9-pass. wagon to a friend for $1. It ran perfectly, but had developed a lot of rust problems. Ron is extremely, ahem, frugal.
He put duct tape over the major body rust, and spray painted it white to match. It actually did not look too bad.
When the rear bumper fell off, he bolted on a thick plank, also sprayed it white to match the body. It actually did not look too good.
Speaking of monkeys and old ships, the plate that holds the cannon balls in a pyramid in the deck was called a monkey. It held the 16 cannon balls that formed the base of the pyramid. To keep the iron balls from welding themselves to the monkey in the corrosive salt water environment, it was made from brass.
Anyway, as temperatures dropped, the brass would shrink faster than the iron cannon balls. When it got cold enough, the monkey couldn’t hold the cannon balls anymore. So there is a actual temperature that will freeze the (cannon) balls off a brass monkey.
Now who else but me wondered about a Monkey wrench? Here is a link to an image of one, but what does monkey wrench mean to you?
http://www.gp.lib.mi.us/information/about/Tools/images/Monkey%20Wrench.JPG
For the aficionados there is a stillson wrench
But my favorite insite is a ball peen hammer, the peen is the hammer side and the ball is the other side.
http://www.northerntool.com/images/product/images/558347_lg.jpg
Here’s a Monkey Wench:
OH! You said Monkey Wrench! Gosh, how could I have missed that.
“Mind you in WI duct tape or duck tape has it’s uses.”
Boy, does it ever. Around here (Chicago) we refer to duct tape as “Wisconsin chrome.”
I would like a recount. I’ve been posting here since 1996, surly I have more posts than I am getting credit for.