Toolsday Giveaway: Win an Angle Grinder

Last Toolsday, we posted a photo of a metal gadget with a wooden handle and asked you to tell us what it is used for.  Popular answers included bottle opener, a speciality wrench and a tool used to remove nails from a horse’s shoe. The real answer is a dental key. It’s a tool that was used in the early 1800s to extract teeth – ouch! 

We randomly picked one winner out of all last week’s comments and that lucky person is Doug, who thought it was a pair of tongs for carrying cylindrical objects. Congrats Doug, even though you answered incorrectly, you still win. You have exactly one week to reply to our email before we pick another winner.

Next Tuesday we will be giving away a Craftsman Angle Grinder.  The cordless 4-1/2″ grinder is designed for comfort and ease of use.  It comes with an auxiliary handle that can be adjusted to three different positions. The powerful 19.2-volt motor allows for 6500 RPM no-load speed so you can get the job done fast. 

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To win the Craftsman Angle Grinder, post a comment (click “comment” above) and tell us what this little device is called.  You don’t have to answer correctly to win; we will randomly pick one winner.

On Tuesday, January 22, we will select the winner then start up a new giveaway for another tool, which will be given away the Tuesday after that. 

You have until January 22, 2013, 2:00pm (ET) to enter to win the Craftsman Angle Grinder.

Official Rules.

 

2,604 Responses

  1. sabrina brennan says:

    Boot remover.

  2. cynthiabres says:

    I believe this tool is a wood planer.

  3. JonnyMac says:

    If you were to stand it on end, it would look like a wooden carving of the star trek symbol.

  4. kjgroberts says:

    Its a boot jack to take off your boots

  5. k21417 says:

    boot jack, for removing boots

  6. Andrewfeldner says:

    Boot jack for removing boots

  7. jaredleseman says:

    Im going to say a door wedge, since evereyone is saying itsa boot jack

  8. Susan Stewart says:

    bootjack

  9. Harold Pritchard says:

    A tool for working on animal skins.

  10. SusanG says:

    It's a book jack!

  11. Barry says:

    A tool to scrape off dirt and other solids off Boots & Shoes
    or device is called a boot jack and is used to help pull off one's boots.

  12. Linda says:

    Tool for taking mud and other solids off Boots & Shoes
    or boot jack aka the reversible Shoe Horn !

  13. yeooslrac says:

    bootjack

  14. 1joyce says:

    This is a boot jack

  15. Cigarman409 says:

    boot extractor

  16. anthony powell says:

    Boot Remover

  17. It's called a Grinder or Sander. Used for smoothing out concrete, wood, or other stubborn surfaces.

  18. john oconnor says:

    shoe horn

  19. Steven Pancrazi says:

    this is used to take off shoes

  20. MarciF says:

    It's a boot jack

  21. richard dill says:

    boot jack (for removing boots)

  22. Kaxzza says:

    It reminds me of those smoothing planes but it looks like it could be missing the knobs on top

  23. Chuck May says:

    1850 boot jack

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