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Occasionally we here at Suicide Bots, like all the other people who work with tools and things, learn things in the shop that just cannot be taught any other way.

For example, say you had 1800lbs of lumber fall on you a while back. Say that today you happened to have been standing on a hard concrete floor all day, noodling with something or other, and you realize that the ankle you broke back then is really super swollen because you are a stubborn git who took his cast off at the first available opportunity (hypothetically, of course, WE don’t know ANYONE who would do THAT around here. . .).

You don’t have an ice pack and you can’t really perambulate around to get one, so what do you do?

Ladies and Gentleman, I bring you Shop Tip #2. The voluptuous curves of a plastic Coke bottle make a a stunning and ergonomically sexy ice pack to put some cold on the ankle right where it’s needed:

Right, I suppose I should mention Shop Tip #1. Shop Tip #1 was established before this site went live. Shop Tip#1 is the hard and fast rule that whenever you are stacking something (like oh say 1800lbs of melamine-coated pulp board) for PITY’S SAKE stack in such a way that it cannot fall on top of you when you are not looking.

It’ll take a couple extra minutes, but trust me it will save roughly six weeks, two titanium pins, several rounds of ineffective painkillers, and the embarrassment of having your significant other chasing the autonomous medication dispensary around the hospital with a camera phone:

Okay shop nerds, anyone have any other tips they care to share with the class?

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