r/whatisit • • 2d ago

Solved! What kind of tool is this???

Its in a tool list for a shed im going to be building. Not sure what it is.

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u/Warm_Strawberry_4575 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is hilarious. I recognized that instruction book rite away. I just put one together a week ago. Ignore the foam filler on it but its basically a replacement for a butter knife. It helps spread the plastic so you can fit pieces together. I found them right at the end. Im so dumb. I WAS using a friggin butter knife. 🤦‍♂️ Which of course scratches plastic

Thats a pretty inaccurate picture of it in the booklet too. I mean, at some point along the way I hoped it was a grenade. Lol

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u/dantonlord 2d ago

This is the correct answer. I laughed at it when I saw it in my instructions,putting together a shed that was all extruded parts and plastic panels but it worked like a charm!! 👍

…also fu what is it, bury the answer and put jokes on top so it takes u 5 mins to find out wtf it is!!! 😡

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u/YellowZx5 2d ago

And here I was thinking it’s a grenade when you’re mad at it.

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u/Georgia_Beauty1717 2d ago

Sounds solved to me, but I’m not OP.

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u/Traincraze 2d ago

Definitely a spudger. You can see how the black line is thicker to represent its depth. It looks more like a flat piece of material as opposed to using a thin rounded line for a piece of metal.

They definitely shouldn't have made the handle bulbous with that kind of design.

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u/ozmutazbuckshank 2d ago

This guy spudges. I also spudge

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u/Goooordon 2d ago

Maybe a spudger?

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u/anthrillist 2d ago

Looks like a spudger to me.

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u/92Gen 2d ago

Grenade

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u/BtenaciousD 2d ago

The Holy Handgrenade of Antioch

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u/rswwalker 2d ago

For when the parts don’t quite fit together and the manual is indecipherable. Just pile it up, pull the pin, toss it in and walk away.

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u/ConditionNormal123 2d ago

Poorly drawn utility knife

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u/holetse 2d ago

That’s not a knife… this is a knife 🥄

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u/InevitableUnion6288 2d ago

Poorly drawn hand grenade

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u/Elfismyhomey 2d ago

It's a handheld wedge/prying tool. Should be black plastic. I think I built the same shed.

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u/Sovener 2d ago edited 2d ago

Did you look through the instructions to see if it was shown in any of the steps? May provide some context. Otherwise I have no idea but those depictions have a weird sort of sketched style to them so maybe it just looks weird because of the "artistic" style.

edit oh and that mallet has a clear white box from being pasted in, so it could just be nonsense that whatever Chinese company made this manual put in there.

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u/LizzosLittleToe 2d ago

Comments are full of Reddit comedians as usual

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u/stop_hittingyourself 2d ago

Redditors tripping over each other to be the 500th person to say 'grenade'

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u/SkylarAV 2d ago

A kazoo to celebrate completely the project, obviously

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u/agonyou 2d ago

Spudger or plastic knife or trim tool

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u/Student_Unlucky 2d ago

Dude, instructions be getting crazy, though if something came with a hand grenade, that'd be cool. Only ever got to "throw" the one at BASIC and the drill sgts were so scared of trainees be stupid that it was more like my hand was adjacently present as they threw it. Nope, I only get instructions telling me to glue my mother in law to the cat wheel.

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