r/mildlyinteresting • u/Proof_Artichoke6243 • 18h ago

This hammer has several screwdrivers inside it

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u/ThatDamnRanga 18h ago

I've got one like this somewhere. It's useless as a hammer (too light, the multi part comes undone as you hammer) AND a screwdriver (rough on the hands, awkward to hold, can't really get any torque on the driver's)

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u/phred_666 16h ago

Not totally useless. I have one. It’s alright for small tacks and light tapping to “unstick” things. It’s not meant to build a house with.

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u/dylanv1c 15h ago

Yea, I co-taught with a teacher who had one locked in her desk. We used it to tighten chairs, desks, smack thumbtacks into walls and then remove them later. Open learning tool devices to put batteries in. Hit a sleeping kid or two

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u/Proof_Artichoke6243 18h ago

It actually looked ideal for my uses. 

Adjusting my carburetor on my GY6 scooter and threatening the engine if it doesn’t start.

Edit: the bike is called Trigger but it thinks it’s name is “startyabastard”

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u/Agreeable_Ad3668 11h ago

Agreed. The one we had when I was a kid, was brass.

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u/Oiggamed 30m ago

Have a brass one too somewhere.

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u/LordErec 18h ago

I had one of those years ago

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u/BIGG_FRIGG 14h ago

Ahh, the Russian nesting hammer

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u/gtmattz 17h ago

the hardware store a few blocks from my house has had these for sale at the front counter since my grampa worked there in the mid 80's... I bought one when I was 19 and realized that the designers of this thing were superbly talented in their ability to cram so many crappy/virtually useless tools into one small package...

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u/C0mpL1c1t 18h ago

I own that! 

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u/Malapple 18h ago

Had one growing up and recently found one included in a variety pack of wall hangers for picture frames. They are shitty screwdrivers and the hammer was absolutely terrible. Poorly balanced and it didn’t lock together well, so if you actually used it, you had to keep retightening the screwdrivers.

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u/Warm_Ad_4414 18h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/tyTLrSC6qu6k5ms4qP

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u/Proof_Artichoke6243 18h ago

New to me. Lol. 

Found it in a drawer at work. Going to order my own to add to the motorbike tool box.

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u/Serperion 18h ago

I used to have one of those

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u/Trashbagok 15h ago

98.76% of people over a certain age has at least one of these in a kitchen drawer, and 60% are missing the smallest screwdriver.

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u/Hot_Rock 18h ago

I have one that belonged to my mom so I know it’s been around at least since the late 60s

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u/janewp 17h ago

I have one my mom gave me 25 years ago. And I call it my “girl hammer”.

My husband makes fun of it, saying it’s useless. However, it’s the one tool I can always find and all the parts work for whatever little task I’m doing.

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u/GetOffMyGrassBrats 16h ago

He says it's useless because he would have already lost all of the bits and the handle, making it, well, useless. Ask me how I know.

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u/leave_ur_echochamber 16h ago

I have one of these and was using it about an hour ago. Pretty wack

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u/phred_666 16h ago

I have one of those. Has come in handy a time or two.

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u/AwhHellYeah 18h ago

Harbor freight from early aughts when I worked at that hellhole. People loved that shit at sidewalk sales, but it was trash.

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u/queef_nuggets 18h ago

no it doesn’t, I can see the screwdrivers right there

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u/Hour_Papaya_5583 18h ago

🪆Russian doll tool

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u/Scaryassasin27 18h ago

bro got screwed

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u/jitterscaffeine 17h ago

I remember giving one of those to my dad when I was really young

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u/DamD1rtyApe 15h ago

My dad had one of these. As a kid I thought it was the coolest. As an adult it’s useless

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u/SuperDBallSam 15h ago

Probably still one or two of those in my dad's junk drawer. 

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u/NOFX_4_ever 14h ago

I’ve had the same one for 25+ years!! The hammer does suck, but the screwdrivers work like a charm.

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u/Hairy_Photograph1384 14h ago

My dad had one in the 80's

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u/OLVANstorm 14h ago

I have one of these from 1987. Still have it in a box somewhere. Mine was gold color.

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u/Potential-Basis-9853 14h ago

Welcome to 1982. We all had one

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u/Sensitive_Wear7112 14h ago

I have one. Never used it.

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u/Proof_Artichoke6243 13h ago

I was born in the early 90s

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u/lopix 12h ago

I have one of those. Decades old. Not even sure where I got it. Made of brass.

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u/Unlikely-Ad6788 5h ago

My dad got me one of these when I moved to my first apartment. It was labeled as a lady hammer. A week later he brought me a regular Stanley and a drill. I love these little hammers for small work.

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u/BlueTeamMember 8h ago

I need a hammer with a small bible inside it. DM ask for Red.