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Mark;8263 wrote: I've heard WD-40 referred to as 'weasel piss' before.

panther piss

Now that you say that "Endo", one of the carpenters was a civilian boat builder, "Keyport Torpedo Station" boat shop. Perhaps that is a boat builder/shipwright term??

Yeah the term is so perfect, only one word between workers.

"Endo" is used by ironworkers all the time. When we are lining up splices on rebar, a guy on each end, when the bar gets to the correct position, the guy eyeballing the marks yells "endo". When we aren't too worried about being exact, we say just "eyeball it"!
We always send apprentices, or new guys, or greenhorns, to go get the "bar stretcher", or a box of "blue endo's"! I think my favorite though would have to be when i told an apprentice to call the superintendant and ask to join the "fit" program. The Foreman In Training" program.

One of the best expressions Ive ever heard I heard from David Hyde... That would be "suck it and see"

Whenever I interview prospective employees I always ask two questions; Do you know how to read a tape? If they think that's a laugh riot, then it's probly strike one.... then I ask are you right or left handed (that always draws a quizzical look), If they're a lefty then I know I will have a good supply of left hand gloves, and visa versa. Not a big thing in itself, but if
the first question was iffy, then #3 could be very subjective.....Like, How bout' them Broncos ! ? :unsure: How bad I'm needing help could be a factor though...........

Addendum to ''spit cut''; I have found that when I need to cut a bar in half, and ''It isn't going on the space shuttle'' (my term for You don't need use the calipers:nerd:) I balance it on my finger and mark the center........It's usually within a half an inch.....bm

Lincoln 225 welder is a tombstone and a miller is a cracker box

Gene C;8389 wrote: Whats a Wards 295 amp ac welder?

Antique

Before that it was a splatter box.............

Hmmmm from my framing days when I was going to metal school at night........level is a "whiskey stick", returns on fly rafters are "porkchops", the HAP cut on a rafter is the "bird's mouth", pressure treated lumber is "green plate"...........sheetrock is never sheetrock or wallboard, it's always just "rock" including the verb: like "when is the house getting rocked?" when you sheath a house with plywood, it's sheathing, but when you sheath a roof its "flopping the roof", and when you run the 3/4 t/g plywood on the joists it's "running the deck" (yup the deck is the sub-floored joists, never that pesky thing in back of the house that those other carpenters put on later;) When you cut a 4'x8' sheet the short way it's "cutting", but when you cut it the long way it's "ripping", including the noun "hey gimme a 3" rip 60" long!" Used to call adjustable wrenches "spanners" growing up (someone just told me they do that in england, true?) 2x4 cleats on the roof when you flop it are "sissy bars", boards with nails in them are "land sharks"...................and from my metalworking/shop now: has anyone noticed that when you stick weld, no one calls it an "electrode holder", it's always a "stinger", I heard some of my guys call the mig gun a stinger too........oh, and full sticks of metal are always "long dogs"