While looking for a picture I found out there is a vise-grip story page of many gripping tales.........how captivating.........
From: Jim Paradis < paradis@amt.tay1.dec.com >
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 12:25:04 -0500 (EDT)
Well, guess I oughta tell my own vise-grips story then... Remember how someone posted a while back, confessing that he actually used duct tape to (*gasp*) tape a duct? Well the other day I was working on replacement axles for a garden utility trailer. After cutting the stock to the appropriate length, I wanted to file the ends. So I clamped an axle tight in the vise and started working. Unfortunately, this being a round axle and my vise not having knurled jaws, it kept slipping. So I cranked the vise tighter. And tighter. Until finally I sheared the pin that holds the vise handle to the main screw. At which point, I put the handle aside, replace it with the Universal Tool (also cranked tight) and continue on my merry way. In other words, for the first time in my life I used Vise-Grips to grip a vise 8-) --
Jim Paradis (paradis@amt.tay1.dec.com) "It's not procrastination,
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(508)952-4047 Workload Management System!"
[ http://www.tiac.net/users/jrp/index.html ] Another story from Jim Paradis: True story: Once went to a bring-your-own-lobster bbq. gf & I brought a six-pounder for the two of us. the host provided nutcrackers. I broke the nutcracker trying to open the claw. went to the car, got the vise-grips, used it as a nibbling tool to get the claw open.
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From: klmstew@hotmail.com
Subject: more uses for vice grips Have a VW pickup truck with an inside hood relase. The handle broke, leaving me with a cable sticking out. Clamped on a small pair of vice grips & unlatched my hood for three years that way.
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From: ajhuang@hpbs1974.boi.hp.com (Andrew J Huang)
Subject: True Facts
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:28:24 -0600 (MDT) From Idaho Statesman, 22 April 1998: CAR WITH NO STEERING WHEEL,
AMBULANCE COLLIDE, HURTING 3 A Meridian man could face charges after he lost control of his car, which crossed into oncoming traffic and struck an Ada County ambulance head-on, officials said.
... [He] was driving an El Camino that had no steering wheel, officers said. He apparently was using Vise-Grips to steer the car.
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From: Paul Norman
Subject: Vice-Grip Story
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 21:04:39 -0700 I replaced my rear shocks in my '86 Ford 3/4 ton truck in the Spring of 1996. I used a 10WR pair of Vice-Grips to help remove and replace the bolts attaching the shocks to the truck and axle. A year and a half later I replaced the rear brakes in the truck and when I slid under, I found my Vice-Grips still attached to the lower shock bolt! I drove the truck over miles of rough logging roads, and through the winter and they were still there! They are a little rust covered but work fine and are still in my tool box, along with the other new pair I purchased when I thought I lost my first pair.
Paul
Victoria, BC Canada
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DO YOU KNOW REALIZE ALL THE FUN YOU HAVE MISED OUT ON NOT KNOWING OF THE MODEN WONDER THAT WE ALL KNOW AS THE VISE-GRIP?
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