Thread: Not a nice thing to do to somebody

for the annoying apprentice who leaves tools everywhere

Jb weld on the back of the sockets and put them back on the socket holders

for the know it all apprentice.

tell him to change the brake fluid on a Mack. When he smartly tells you you're an idiot its got airbrakes take him to a mog with airbrakes. lean in the door pump the brakes. tell him airbrakes right? when he nods walk round show him the brake fluid reservoir (unimogs are an air over hydraulic braking system) and tell him to stop being a smart ass and go change the mack brake fluid. Warn out your mates in the workshop so they wont help him.

while the appys out bolt a mog brake reservoir to the mack chassis and run a line down between the diffs. Make sure the brakes are all that's holding up releasing the vehicle on the paperwork. Tee up with the driver to come over on friday arvo needing the truck in a hurry, let the truckie abuse the appy for a bit, hand the appy the brake fluid tut tut at him show him the brake unit and then slide under and "bleed" the brakes. let the truck out.

in the smoko room get one of your mates to setup a different appy with the "mack airbrakefluid change" routine and enjoy watching the know it all apprentice trying to show the new bloke how to change the brake fluid on an air brake system.

For the git who likes letting peoples tyres down.

let his tyres down, 1/2 fill them with water then pump them back up again.

for the appy who likes to do the zip ties on the propshaft trick.

grab a dead electrical harness, snag it on the zip tie drive a short distance to get it wound round the shaft. Disable your vehicles electrical system nail polish on the fuse conector let set and then re-ineserted works well. use the workshops flat bed to "recover" your vehicle. let him spend his weekend trying to sort out your electrical problems on the grounds that if its not fixed by monday the cops will be called and the propshaft and zip ties will be finger printed.

for the appy auto electricians

dip all their spare fuses in clear nail polish, do the same thing for the meter side of their multi meter probes.

when they work that one out take the earth lead off of their cars battery, cover the terminal with comercial gladwrap, replace the lead then carefully remove the excess gladwrap.

for the mechanic appy who's always borrowing your tools...
get a double set of tools.
use a press to make one size set smaller and the enerpack to make one set larger.
when he cant get them to fit properly use your good ones to "crack" the bolts for him then let him use the oversize ones to finish the job.

for the appy who likes to leave his car at work on the hoist.

drop the rear pipe off the muffler, fill it with expanda foam, once its set drill a 1/2 inch hole in the foam then trim it back so it cant be easily seen. reassemble the exhaust.

wire the control side of a relay to one of the indiactor light wires connect the relay to a small light blacked out light and the coil, ignition amp or crank angle sensor. (the small light is to prevent actual damage to the amp or crank angle sensor)

pour a liter of 2stroke oil into the tank.

Man, you guys are mean!

About the worst thing we ever did was to a boss in the telephone exchange who was always being a *****. We waited until he went into the dunny one morning and crept in with a foam fire extinguisher. Poked the nozzle under the door and gave him the full tank. He came out looking like a snow man.

The other trick was on bucks night the friday night before a Saturday afternoon wedding. When the groom-to-be was too sozzled to know which way was up, we removed all cash from his pockets and put him on a railcar to the West Coast (in New Zealand). He woke up in the morning of his wedding, miles from home with no money to get home. One collect phone call later, an unamused bride, frantic parents... and a car trip over the alps to get him. And a pile of abuse on the trip home.

flattened aluminium can inside a tubeless tyre takes some figuring out.