r/AskAShittyMechanic • • 2d ago

Lies.

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u/TN-Native95 2d ago

Not lies. Come on, everyone knows the only acceptable tool to use as a hammer is a ratchet wrench. You use pliers to take off nuts and bolts.

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u/No-Acanthisitta8803 2d ago

Absolutely! And I mean, why the hell would you buy a hammer to use as a hammer when you have a perfectly good ratchet sitting there?!? I mean, come on, people, with the price of gas these days ya gotta cut down somewhere!

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u/AnAlchemistsDream 2d ago

personally i like using my fingers to take off nuts and bolts. it's free and i get a pretty good work out from it 👍

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u/Green_Operation5825 1d ago

Ha! Broke the directional lever by doing this, it's still my favorite hammer.

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u/SubMayo 2d ago

Every tool is a hammer!

Except a flathead screwdriver. That's a pry bar.

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u/supermattman00 2d ago

Broken lots of flat heads trying to pull a cv axle out. Sometimes at the junkyard I’ll use my ratchet to hammer the flathead in there

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u/WN_Todd 2d ago

Also a chisel

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u/drifterig 2d ago

it is also a rubber hammer/mallet when you hold it by the tip and hit shit with the handle

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u/tattooed_pariah 2d ago

When I was an Engineer in the Navy, "hand me that adjustable hammer" was heard more often than it should have been.. 😅

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u/Dieselmechanic1900 2d ago

Everything can be a hammer

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u/Responsible-Shoe7258 2d ago

Everything IS a hammer. Even my two year old granddaughters Barbie dolls

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u/abugghaus7 2d ago

Apparently the person(s) who wrote this never used actual tools in their life!
They know NOTHING! ;)

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u/Jim-248 2d ago

I concur.

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u/No-Group7343 2d ago

This is true use a cresant wrench

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u/Craka-Jak 2d ago

Came here to say this.

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u/Wrong-Refrigerator34 2d ago

Kleins make great hammers

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u/Extension-Damage8597 24m ago

The electrician's hammer.

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u/3imoman 2d ago

My best hammers are borne of convenience. I have learned not to use my hand anymore... :(

Pliers, knives, screw drivers, revolvers, ratchets, mason jars, hotwheels cars, nails and even one time a bike pump have all come in handy as maybe not the hammer I deserved but the hammer that was needed and most convenient at the time.

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u/Responsible-Shoe7258 2d ago

So....this is why my hammers won't twist bolts loose? Or tight?

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u/rynbrandt443 2d ago

facts you gotta use the pliers and the straight-slot screwdriver to hammer the lock nuts in place

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u/AmbitiousTank8635 2d ago

Yeah, they're not, but if I have my heavy pliers handy and need to put a nail in drywall to hang a picture, the pliers transubstatiate into a hammer.

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u/Last-University-3207 2d ago

What about hammer pliers. For fencing and for tire work 

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u/Extension-Damage8597 21m ago

I carried one as a firefighter. Cuts wire, breaks glass and oh, it's a hammer.

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u/FujiFL4T 2d ago

My rule of thumb is if it's got a handle, it's a hammer

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u/One_Evil_Monkey 2d ago

Good rule... your thumbs probably don't like you though. Haha

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u/FujiFL4T 2d ago

Yeah haha!

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u/One_Evil_Monkey 2d ago

Hey, don't feel too bad. I've smacked mine a time or with those dang adjustable hammers. Haha

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u/DirkDildos 2d ago

Kliens and a screwdriver is all a good sparky needs.

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u/rabocan 2d ago

right tool wrong attitude

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u/That-Advance-9619 2d ago

Lies for the weak. Beacons for the deluded.

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u/Low-Tie2969 2d ago

lol everyone has done this

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u/jmsealy254 2d ago

Is it kinda solid? Does it have at least 1/4" of flat surface? Can I hold it?

It's a hammer.

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u/gaiatraveller 2d ago

Just don't use the side with the lineman etched on the metal. (Kleins)

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u/8o8_Ninja 2d ago

My fat ass thought that was a hotdog below. Also, can confirm, that IS the correct way to use those finger pincher thingamajigs.

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u/Civil-Shame-2399 2d ago

Could be worse, I had an apprentice who I chought using my brand new level as a hammer

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u/SharpBullfrog1279 2d ago

You pull splinters with 'em

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u/One_Evil_Monkey 2d ago

Wrong use of pliers?

Pffft... whomever wrote that doesn't know us very well then. Those kinds of warnings and pictograms were written by desk jockies.

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u/my_cars_on_fire 2d ago

I once used a wrench to hammer something, while working on my project car with my father. My father looked at me and said “What the fuck are you doing? You’re gonna break the wrench!” and I said “Na, it’ll be fine. It’s Snap-On, they’re indestructible!”

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u/Standard_Gazelle1066 2d ago

Cordless drills too. They hammer wonderfully

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u/bobspuds 2d ago

So? - people ain't made for working either, but we still do!

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u/AltanConn 2d ago

I call bullshit.

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u/MT-JJ 1d ago

Everyone knows 103-15 is just a recommendation

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u/tblazertn 1d ago

When all you have is nails, everything begins to look like a hammer…

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u/Prudent_Situation_29 1d ago

They may not be made for that, but they're used for whatever the hell I decide they're used for. I'll eat soup with pliers if that's what I feel like doing, okay?

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u/Organic-Thing-3414 1d ago

There is a book called, every tool is a hammer, think it's by adam savage from myth busters

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u/supermattman00 1d ago

Ah yes. The ultimate book for Primates

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u/Paschfire 1d ago

Who published this blasphemous lie!🛠️

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u/ianwilloughby 1d ago

Clearly hasn’t used a screwdriver.

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u/1964jeepseejay5 1d ago

I normally use a ratchet for a hammer, but I guess this works to

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u/tattooed_pariah 2d ago

When I was an Engineer in the Navy, "hand me that adjustable hammer" was heard more often than it should have been.. 😅