@werehatrack I think the heaviest dead blow I have is 48 oz. I have never run into a situation where I needed heavier but also dead blow at the same time.
Originally purchased this as a sarcastic joke on my company’s safety culture meetings. The major talking point of almost every meeting was “Proper tool for the job”, in which they always used the trope of “using a creasant wrench for a hammer”. So as a joke I bought one of these and presented the wrench on our video chat, and proclaimed "safety has been solved!
@werehatrack The adjustable jaw is reversible with serrated teeth, so the pipe wrench aspect does apply … in theory. In reality, this is probably a jack-of-all, master-of-none tool.
@narfcake Look closely at that serrated jaw. It’s angled the wrong way. And since the jaw can’t float, and the teeth are just chisels and not saw-teeth, it’s got a zero effectiveness level for pipe. If it was useful for that function, they’d have included a photo of it being used that way - but even they could see that it was not going to work, so there’s no photo to embarrass them.
@mike808 There’s no real difference between the hammers customarily used for RUD of keyboards, monitors, systems, switches, etc., but the hammer used for RUD of a printer needs to be much larger or the real purpose of the task (restoration of employee sanity) may not be fulfilled. That looks like it may be a printer hammer. This is allowed.
@mike808@werehatrack A friend said that at a place he worked, they’d save up all the broken printers, monitors and such, and then spend an afternoon shooting the daylights out of them with a variety of weapons.
@blaineg My bad. The only other tool you will need:
The LART
Or, as it is more commonly known as, a clue by four.
P.S. Sometimes, when the PEBCAK is severe, you may need to resort to a larger sized LART, a clue by six, or a clue by ten to fully address the problem.
@blaineg However, if there is a potential romantic interest in the user and they are within your tolerance level and quadrant on the inversely proportional hotness-crazy scale, you may obtain better results with the LART’s networking version:
I first encountered the terms “LART” and “clue-by-four” on the old alt.callahans usenet newsgroup, back in the '90s. The cat5-o-ten-tails is more recent.
Who doesn’t use a wrench as a hammer sometimes?
@RiotDemon Those of us with a full set of hammers.
@RiotDemon
A watchmaker? (Their wrenches are kinda dainty.)
@RiotDemon @werehatrack So are their hammers.
@RiotDemon @yakkoTDI
Metric, Imperial, or Whitworth?
@blaineg @RiotDemon
Soft Face, Ball Peen, Claw, Sledge, Dead Hoo…I mean Dead Blow.
@yakkoTDI
But do you have the 12-lb dead-blow sledge?
@werehatrack I think the heaviest dead blow I have is 48 oz. I have never run into a situation where I needed heavier but also dead blow at the same time.
@yakkoTDI I have found it useful in adjusting the position of framing.
OBTW…
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/stanley-fatmax-10-in-adjustable-demo-wrench
@werehatrack That’s going on the wishlist.
Patches O’Houlihan could have used these.
And…
https://www.protoolreviews.com/tools/hand/drivers-wrenches/proferred-adjustable-mining-wrench-with-hammer/38723/
@werehatrack When a meme becomes a thing.
@werehatrack Wow, ratchet too!
@werehatrack Now that’s on the wishlist too!
Speaking of memes:
And I know about these thanks to @blaineg:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/adam-savages-arm-ruler-tattoo
I like the temporary ruler tattoo, too!
I’ve been pondering this one for a while, but can’t really justify it.
Wera Koloss Hammer-Ratchet.
Also available in a set with a factory cheater bar.
@blaineg https://www-de.wera.de/en/great-tools/koloss/
https://smile.amazon.com/Adjustable-Multi-Function-Universal-Ironworker-Function/dp/B088B94BF5/
@narfcake That item title is a monsterpiece of keyword spamming without regard to accuracy. Pipe wrench? Not found. And that’s not the only problem.
@werehatrack The adjustable jaw is reversible with serrated teeth, so the pipe wrench aspect does apply … in theory. In reality, this is probably a jack-of-all, master-of-none tool.
@narfcake Look closely at that serrated jaw. It’s angled the wrong way. And since the jaw can’t float, and the teeth are just chisels and not saw-teeth, it’s got a zero effectiveness level for pipe. If it was useful for that function, they’d have included a photo of it being used that way - but even they could see that it was not going to work, so there’s no photo to embarrass them.
Why would anyone combine specialized tools?
That’s just extra steps.
@mike808 There’s no real difference between the hammers customarily used for RUD of keyboards, monitors, systems, switches, etc., but the hammer used for RUD of a printer needs to be much larger or the real purpose of the task (restoration of employee sanity) may not be fulfilled. That looks like it may be a printer hammer. This is allowed.
@mike808 Here’s a printer being done right.
@mike808 @werehatrack A friend said that at a place he worked, they’d save up all the broken printers, monitors and such, and then spend an afternoon shooting the daylights out of them with a variety of weapons.
He said it was very therapeutic.
The only tool you will ever need.
The PMT
@mike808 What if the problem is the user?
@blaineg @mike808 Some of the users need to be percussed too.
@blaineg My bad. The only other tool you will need:
The LART
Or, as it is more commonly known as, a clue by four.
P.S. Sometimes, when the PEBCAK is severe, you may need to resort to a larger sized LART, a clue by six, or a clue by ten to fully address the problem.
@blaineg However, if there is a potential romantic interest in the user and they are within your tolerance level and quadrant on the inversely proportional hotness-crazy scale, you may obtain better results with the LART’s networking version:
I first encountered the terms “LART” and “clue-by-four” on the old alt.callahans usenet newsgroup, back in the '90s. The cat5-o-ten-tails is more recent.
@mike808 Years ago I had this, and some other O’Really t-shirts.
@mike808
@mike808
just when you thought they couldn’t improve the Thumb-Detecting Nut-Fucker…
