Alternative uses for bike tools

[alicat]

Just used my pedal spanner to lever off a seized-on car wiper arm. Then deployed copaslip when replacing it.

What have you put to alternative uses? It's Friday, the more bizarre the better!

 

[Dave 123]

I know there are a lot of bikes/exercise bikes purchased that go on to be clothes horses!

 

[sight-pin]

I use a 4mm allen key to clear my ears.

If you spin around, will your ear come off?

 

[accountantpete]

I use a 4mm allen key to clear my ears.

Someone must have put a hex on you.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I use my extra long chain whip to remind apprentices not to use cone spanners for nothing else other than cones. I apply the aforesaid tool to the left ear with velocity and repeat every four hours until symptoms disappear.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I use a 4mm allen key to clear my ears.

In that case you are a great candidate for using a cable cutter to trim nose hair. Remember to make each cut perfectly perpendicular.

 

[cosmicbike]

I use spanners as hammers on occasion. I'm an electrical engineer though so allowances should be made. I also have a healthy range of adjustable hammers.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I use spanners as hammers on occasion..

Come here and turn your face to the right. I need to use my chain whip.

 

[Profpointy]

If you spin around, will your ear come off?

remember the left one has a left hand thread

 

[coffeejo]

remember the left one has a left hand thread

@User14044's thread unravelled years ago.

 

[Paulus]

Not quite a tool, but, I have used spokes to clear out the plug hole in the sink of all the gunk.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Come here and turn your face to the right. I need to use my chain whip.

I had a mechanic once, he used a hammer for the correct job, at the correct time. Just a shame, that to him, everything was a hammer

 

[Profpointy]

I had a mechanic once, he used a hammer for the correct job, at the correct time. Just a shame, that to him, everything was a hammer

Posted before but there are 3 rules of engineering.

1. always use the right tool for the job
2. the right tool for any job is a hammer
3. any tool can be used as a hammer

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Posted before but there are 3 rules of engineering.

1. always use the right tool for the job
2. the right tool for any job is a hammer
3. any tool can be used as a hammer

I promise to chainwhip myself after saying this.....

And if the hammer doesn't do the job, it isn't big enough.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

I promise to chainwhip myself after saying this.....

And if the hammer doesn't do the job, it isn't big enough.

Another I've seen/heard:
If duct tape doesn't fix it, you're not using enough duct tape.