AlexW wrote:
doozer wrote:

I was just reading the "Worst Tool" thread and is struck me that I
haven't yet seen a thread detailing, shall we say, alternative uses
for a tool.


I alluded to a bit of this on the thread you ref'd ...

Spoon or other cutlery = screwdriver

Huge old tyre lever = wrecking bar and "slab lever"

Chisel = scraper

Scraper = chisel

Screwy = chisel or scraper or tyre lever

Power drill = hand held "bodge" router.

Shortened (broken off) jisgaw blade for removing floorboard tongues when
circ. saw not handy (taught this one by a builder mate of mine).

Hammer = weight for lowering down flues to get a line in.

Weight in garage = hammer on occasion.

Brick = hammer when not in garage

Antique sheffield steel knife (with mods) = finger trowel (done by
builder mate ... wife very miffed).

Bath = mixer

... I have given this sort of thing up for the most part now!

Alex

It was your post that really gave me the idea to start a new thread. I,
too, have used an old power drill as a router but they don't last long
(certainly wouldn't do that to my new drill).

Cheap and nasty spanners make great weights when trying to run a fishing
line for cable pulls because you have something to easily tie on to.

Wish I had known about the jigsaw trick when I had to lift a load of
floor boards.