Hmm, your CD shrinkwrap paperclip tool sounds a lot like my emergency CD and floppy ejection device.
It also bears a startling resemblance to my windshield washer valve blockage remover.
And who gave you the design for my recently-devised replacement cell phone antenna?
Expect to hear from my attorney, sir.
The tamperproof screws are used on public toilet stalls because sometimes somebody forgets to take a newspaper in and gets bored, happens to be a bit more destructively-minded than most of us, and so decides to take the thing apart.
The schraeder valve uses a special tool because that’s the simplest way to make something that fits in a valve stem, not to keep people from messing with them. You can unscrew one with a pair of tweezers. (and the proper tools are given away with air-conditioner parts, which use the same valves. Endless opportunities for mischeif when one is the son of an HVAC technician…)
I’d like to see the though process that leads someone to disasseble the toilet stall surrounding them while they are on the can.
One of those “seemed like a good idea at the time” moments I guess. 
When I had to get new wheels on my car, I got sold on the idea of having “wheel locks” to prevent theft of my wheels. They require a special key socket to get your wheels off, but my mechanic didn’t have any real trouble taking my wheels off when I forgot to leave him the key.
Some thieves just pound an oversized socket over the top of the lugnut and then take it off.
My dad once saw some folks messing around near his car in front of his house – not strange since it was a townhouse community with common parking areas. The next morning, however, he found a large socket stuck to the locking lug on one of his wheels. Apparently, he spooked them while they were in the act and they took off without their special tool and without his wheels.
I’ve been building commercial airliners for going on 25 years and have used a wide variety of tools not seen in any tool store. Things such as porkchop drills, lester tools, scrivet tool, wirespoon, power vane and harpoon bits. The Boeing commercial airplanes tool catalog is well over 25,000 items, most if not all custom made to put together an airplane assembly. 5 years ago I designed a tool that assist in relatching the oxygen doors on PSU’s. I was given a small stipend for my idea and Boeing started making the tool themselves. I was told last summer Boeing sold out the first run of 500 and was having another 500 made.
Because if the toys come apart, children may be able to swallow small parts. If the used standard screws, a clever four-year old could disassemble the toys.
…mmmm, porkchop drills…
Number, instead of calling your attorney, maybe we could have a DUEL.
Paperclips at 20 paces (no rubberbands allowed) 
That was my initial thought as well, but that could be accomplished with a more standard Torx or Posidrive fastener, I should think.
And yet when I look out the window of a 747 at the various parts of the wing, I’m constantly thinking of how much damage I could do with a phillips screwdriver…
At one time, the rear axles of Studebakers, if not most cars, required a skeleton key shaped tool to allow you to remove the half shafts.
I should point out that the Tucker was designed to be serviced with ordinary hand tools and that mechanics could remove and replace the engine in one in half an hour.
Oh, and I’ve found that the most helpful tool for working on Ford’s is a Sawz All! Ford, interestingly enough, for reasons known only to themselves uses custom designed tools in the manufacture of their cars. What’s bizarre about this, is that there’s plenty of commonly available tools which could do the job just as well, but Ford doesn’t use them.
My trip to the Boeing surplus store confirms this. Many, many unique items.
Curses! You have undone the secret of my elastic folded paper propulsion enhancer as well. I am ruined!
When my daughter was one, she disassembled a VHS tape using a standard Phillips screwdriver :eek:
You’re just making things up now, aren’t you?
(“Yeah, the new kid was being annoying so I sent him out to get a scrivet, a dlilithium flux capacitor, and some green eggs and ham.” )
Anyway, bicycles require a variety of specialized tools – spoke wrenches, cone wrenches, spline freewheel removal tools, crank extractors (my favorite), third hands, bottom bracket wrenches, and the universally exciting chain whip (hubba hubba!). These are mostly not for security reasons, though, but required because parts are designed for low weight rather than standardized tools.
There is one security tool that I know of, which is a quick release axle that has a special tool to lock and unlock it. As the tool is small enough to keep on a key ring, the bike owner can take off the wheel whenever he needs, but thieves generally can’t.
If you ever have surgical staples placed in your skin, check out the staple removal tool that is used to take them out. Cool little device that depresses the center of the staple while pulling the edges outward.
Because if they use their own specialty tools, then mechanics have to buy the tools from them if they want to do the job right. Granted, you could ‘fake it’ with other tools, but odds are, for things like warrenty repairs, the warrenty might get voided if an improper tool is used (of course, for warrenty things, you usually go to either a dealer repair shop or a certafied repair place which would probably have the tools anyways.)
Left handed smoke shifters.
No camper should ever be without one. Send the “New Guy” to get one out of your truck. 
(No, there is no such tool, just bring me along, the smoke from the campfire will ALWAYS find me, keeping you safe!)
'Cept that’s not what I’m talking about. There’s what’s known as the “Ford taper” this is what’s used to hold the center in the tailstock of the lathe that a part’s made on. Everyone else on the planet uses a Morse taper center, not Ford. Ford has their tailstocks special made so that you can only use a Ford taper center on it. This ain’t like using an adjustable wrench instead of a metric socket on a bolt, it’s a clear case of reinventing the wheel when it’s not necessary.
I’ve gotta know. Was there a great rash of thefts from the Ford plants – you know, guys slipping a live center from the lathe in their overalls in order to complete their home machine ship? Well, they really showed those fellows. They probably felt pretty darned silly trying to jam a Ford center into a Morse tapered hole.