Should have gone to a well known high street opticians chain lol.

Accidentally "lose it" and buy him a new replacement G cramp from Screwfix.

Our main clock tutor at Epping Forest Horology Club is always at pains to impress upon us that clock making is mainly art and spares no chance to deny any engineering tendencies…….. Whenever we get out our verniers he asks why we have them as they are actually for removing the nuts on radiators and other plumbing tasks…….micrometers are mostly used for cracking the shells of almonds according to him!

When at school, we had a master who had just taken delivery of a load of new tools, and was explaining at length why the tolls must always be used for their intended purpose. While doing this, he opened and stirred a tin of paint with a screwdriver!

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Agreed. I see no problem here.!

Off topic but on the subject of paint. Don't ever let the woman of the house see a Farrow and Ball swatch. They will insist on it's use and cost you twice as much as Dulux.

Nick

"Bloody radar crew. Using my spanners for stirring their tea."

Neil

A screwdriver, especially a large one, cannot be misused. I have an old battered one named after a now dead famous politician because it got its nose into everything. It still makes a very good wedge.

JA

"Na, found it in me trouser turn up dint I"

Martin

I worked with a chap who kept his teaspoon in his boiler suit breast pocket, teaspoons do have a habit of going missing or collecting an ever increasing brown layer, the only way to control what goes in your tea is to have your own spoon. In our workshop we had a steel worktop where the tea was made, somebody drilled a hole in a mates cup and the worktop and bolted his cup to the top with a seal and filled it with tea, he kept pulling until the handle came off.

Mike

If a car engine cannot be fixed with a hammer there must be an electrical fault.

Michael W

Apart from the ones that are model engineers as well.

Martin