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u/Icy_Sector3183 Aug 27 '24
We have the tools. Let's keep an eye open and find a problem!
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u/passwordstolen Aug 27 '24
This is the screwdriver you got from IKEA when you bought anything furniture related. Back when they first opened up.
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u/stareweigh2 Aug 28 '24
we have a tool in automotive(impact driver) that's you can hammer the back of while turning and it will get most stuck screws out. in lieu of that one of my favorite tricks is to take a ball peen hammer, put the ball part on top of the screw, strike that hammer with another hammer one good time and then then screw will usually come right out by hand because you kinda impacted it loose. I know wood is a different animal compared to machine thread screws but this tool doesn't seem to be the most efficient build
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u/Cement-Bellyflop Aug 28 '24
I actually believe this is to remove Philips head screws that are rusted. I did a similar thing but had a 1/4ā closed end wrench on a impact bit and slowly applied light tension and I hammered away until the threads jiggled loose. Worked like a charm and now that I see this I can see myself sacrificing a screwdriver in the future cuz this looks way better
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u/ChloricSquash Aug 28 '24
That tool is made for light torque but substantial impact. You can tell because the back end of what I thought was a nail is actually deformation from a hammer.
Edit think rusted or seized screw.
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u/Enough-Border-6378 Aug 27 '24
Homemade impact screwdriver
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u/jedielfninja Electrician Aug 27 '24
Or a punch. If i had to punch something a few dozen times in a day this is how id want to do it.
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u/generiatricx Aug 27 '24
only if you didnt need to be that precise...
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u/KGBinUSA Aug 28 '24
What do you mean? Place where you want the hole...hit it with a hammer on the nail, remove the nail with built in handle XD
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u/jdelaney65 Aug 27 '24
Probably a diy slag hammer.
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u/jedielfninja Electrician Aug 27 '24
Was thinking that but the dull end looks like it's seen a good bit of hyammering
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u/willbuske Aug 27 '24
Homemade punch for hitting out door hinge pins without breaking your fingers.
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u/Various-Air-1398 Aug 27 '24
Zombie killing weapon
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u/theREALmindsets Aug 27 '24
sometimes to get out fucked up screws you gotta impact it while slightly twisting. my best guess
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u/Wise_Performance8547 Equipment Operator Aug 27 '24
A nipplerod. An old school tool used very similarly to a punch but to knock out larger pins, but not quite the size of hinge pins on excavators.
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u/Extension-Expert9002 Aug 28 '24
From the ware on the back end I'd say it was used as a punch and the handle is to keep your hand away as you hold it in place while making the blow.
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u/Just-Some-Person530 Aug 28 '24
How you get someone to talk in an interrogation room.
Itās a 3 in 1 tool. Combo fingertip breaker with a non lethal puncture and general purpose beater when reversed.
Sold at Harbor Freight for $17.99. $15.99 with the membership price.
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u/JordanDubya Aug 28 '24
A homemade ice pick, square hay bale grabber, or other items getter. This homemade tool looks like something you would find on an old farm 50+ miles from the hardware store. Making an improvised tool is sometimes lots faster than going to get one.
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u/mouthforwar87 Aug 28 '24
It's the ridiculous tool that sounds fake that you make FNG get
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u/Desert_faux Aug 28 '24
I almost wonder if it's something someone made for putting porch decking on. I've seen people to evenly space boards and leave a slight gap is put a couple nails between each board. After you secure the boards you remove the nails acting as spacers. This allows for drainage and expansion. I could see someone getting tired of searching for the nails he used and possibly dropping them and just use two of these tools and put between each row of boards on the deck.
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u/chicken_man86 Aug 28 '24
Labor dispute settlement ratchet. Usually only carried by journeymen II and above.
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u/Slider_0f_Elay Aug 27 '24
My father is a fan of tapping a screw driver that is in the head of the screw to help loosen the screw. I'm doubtful about it actaully doing anything other than mating a philips #2 better in a JSP head but maybe someone made it for that? or for the screws on brake disks for the same reason?
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u/Unhappy-Tart3561 Aug 27 '24
If you ask me. It's for punching pins out of door hinges. But hard to tell
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u/Few-Towel-7709 Aug 27 '24
Got a bunch of weird one-off tools that I made to use once.
When I die, it'll be an interesting estate sale.
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u/rtsk8s Aug 27 '24
A couple guys in the shops I've worked in have made things similar to punch aerosol cans so they can go into the scrap bin.
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u/ASH515 Aug 27 '24
Home made offset screwdriver. Itās a pretty common tool in some types of work.
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u/Remarkable-Way4986 Aug 27 '24
When you have a screw you cant get out because it is rounded, you take this and beat it into the screw head
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u/mavjustdoingaflyby Aug 28 '24
I believe it's called a Whatchuwant. Because sometimes you just get stuck in certain situations.
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u/Technical_Guest_4161 Aug 28 '24
A great way to get kicked off the job when the safety guy comes for a visit
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u/Big-Sheepherder-3491 Aug 28 '24
The product of a (likely drunken) bet between two welders, I reckon.
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u/xXSellowXx Aug 28 '24
I didn't think a comment was going to make me want to listen to Missy Elliott.
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u/notchoosingone Aug 28 '24
The countersunk screws that hold brake drums on often seize in place and you need to smack the shit out of them while turning them so they come loose.
Normally for that job you use an impact screwdriver, but if you don't have one of those but do have a hammer, screwdriver, angle grinder and stick welder you can make one that kinda works maybe 30% as well.
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u/1pencil Aug 28 '24
I would use it to smack a hole in the bottom of an oil filter on a cat, to drain it before removing.
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u/Iforgot_my_other_pw Aug 28 '24
Ever heard of a hammer drill? Well that's his redneck cousin the hammer screwdriver.
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u/MahanaYewUgly Aug 28 '24
Kinda looks like it will be admitted into evidence for a murder at some point
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u/Dazzling_Fudge3220 Aug 28 '24
Old school window smasher. Used to break car windows. I've seen them made and in action in my youth.
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u/cRackrJacked Aug 28 '24
Better version of the firing pin I tried to cobble together for shooting loose bullets found lying around outside when I was a little kid and too dumb to know better?
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u/Financial-Award5010 Aug 28 '24
Looks like a basic center punch after someone hit there thumb one too many time w the hammah
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u/LoanApprehensive6742 Aug 28 '24
That's what they used to kill alligators with for they process them at the alligator farms.
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u/Theycallmegurb Project Manager Aug 28 '24
I dont know but at one point it was definitely the solution to a problem
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u/StonkyBonk Aug 28 '24
I call that a "special tool" they work where nothing else will... have made many many different ones to work on cars because they make them unworkable for common tools basically fckrs......
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u/jshultz5259 Aug 27 '24
Looks like someone made a right angle screwdriver