Heard of the "U-Tube bender", "Skyhooks", "Hydraulic wire stretcher"...

Heard of one guy sending the apprentice into the supplier for a " Long weight" ("wait")... Counter guy kept the apprentice waiting for 1/2 hour then sent him out the door.

When I was first year apprentice I broke a compact fluorescent lamp while installing it so I sent our "co-op" kid down to the trailer with just the plastic lamp base and strict instructions to get "new glass inserts to fit the base and a can of argon gas" off the forman.. 34 1/2 minutes later the forman came up to tell me to stop wasting his time but could not stop laughing either!

Oh ya, buddy of mine sent his "help" to the supplier for a list of parts, one of which was a can of "lemon sented WD-40" [Linked Image]
A.D

[This message has been edited by Rewired (edited 10-11-2006).]