Saturday, January 16, 2010
The Week In Tools: Toolmonger Top 5
Toolmonger : "It’s been a busy week here at Toolmonger. If you’ve been spending time in the shop — you should! — and you haven’t had a chance to keep up with Toolmonger this week, we suggest you start with these posts, which our readers helped to select"
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Besides just sounding like a pretty awesome tool to be able to say you own, the CS Unitec underwater chainsaw is actually a pretty cool idea. The article gives the impression that the saw is air powered instead of gas powered, which to a degree, makes this a "green" version of the chainsaw. While I don't think this tool will every catch on with the hard core loggers of the world, the fact you don't need to keep a supply of gas about, just an air compressor might make this a good buy for those who already own a decent air compressor and use their chainsaw for more close to home activities.
There's a safe in one of our upcoming shows that's just screaming to have this wooden combo lock built into it.
The underwater chain saw looks incredible an hilarious at first glance. But, the more I think about it, the better it seems. In our world of constantly increasing fuel prices, and need for green energy, an AIR-powered tool is a stroke of genius. If this technology could be applied to other tools (maybe even cars?) this could revolutionize, well, pretty much EVERY industry. If all of our shop tools ran on air instead of electricity, the amount of money the school could save as well as the reduced carbon footprint would be staggering.
Although the underwater chainsaw is cool, I often appreciate this post mostly for its old school dedications. I think that in general many of us coming out of school these days don't understand simple things that used to be basic knowledge years ago. This wooden combination lock is a perfect example, as well as the gun factory that doesn't use power tools. I think we can all afford to do it the ye olde way a lot of the time, but we've grown up with so much technology that we don't really consider the option.
Although I agree that the underwater chainsaw is a pretty cool tool, looking more towards the "green" side, I think that this could also be incredibly dangerous. I can just imagine someone attempting to do something really stupid with this, since it is an "underwater" tool. As much as we'd like to think people buying and using power tools know what they're doing, that is unfortunately not the case. And yes, any power tool can be dangerous, but I just have a bad feeling that by adding the element of water could just get someone into a lot of trouble.
This week's tools are great. Toolmonger stepped it up. I agree, the underwater chainsaw is awesome. I'm not too sure what it could be used for in the theatre but it is cool. The light bulb lube would actually be very helpful because I have broken a lightbulb trying to get it to come out of the socket. Another one of the tools that I like was the wooden combination lock and this is because on the last day of the Carp mini Rachel and I built a box with DR and I think that this would bee so cool to make for a project. I also wonder whether the wooden lock could be easily broken with more advanced machinery because it is only wood.
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