Good names for hammers... - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 02:50:56 am
content: Well, after the Widlerizer, I decided to find some more good names for hammers. My favorite so far is probably dr.diesel's "High Speed Linear Adjustment Device?"Any more you guys can think of?

author: smashedProton
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 03:14:33 am
content: Percussive maintenance instrument?

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 03:19:04 am
content: Quote from: smashedProton on November 17, 2013, 03:14:33 amOn that note, "drum stick"?

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 03:22:24 am
content: Gentle Persuasion.there is no limit as to how soft you can hit, but a definite upper limit.

author: nanofrog
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 03:23:49 am
content: Any particular theme?For example...iSmash for Apple fans.Mjölnir if you're a Thor fan."The Judge" has a rather permanent sense about it.Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Beatles song, from Abbey Road album).

author: smashedProton
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 03:28:53 am
content: Quote from: nanofrog on November 17, 2013, 03:23:49 amSince Asgard is so over the top... I really prefer antagonists who are low key.

author: Paul Moir
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timestamp: November 17, 2013, 03:48:20 am
content: In the construction business around here larger ones are referred to as "motivators".

author: Fsck
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:15:14 am
content: Concussive Therapist

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:17:32 am
content: Hammeroid

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:22:20 am
content: "motivators" sounds good...

author: SLJ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:25:24 am
content: I worked in a warranty service shop where they called it a "Sansui Alignment Tool".

author: Six_Shooter
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:28:21 am
content: A friend of mine refers to hammers, especially anything greater than 2lb as "Swing presses">

author: notsob
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:53:24 am
content: "knockometer"

author: rexxar
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:47:13 am
content: Generally "fucking hammer" as in: "Where did I leave my fucking hammer?!"

author: Skimask
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:52:07 am
content: DufalatororBFH

author: aargee
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 07:48:41 am
content: My Dad used to refer to the hammer as an "American Screwdriver", my US colleagues feel free to return the favour!

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 07:51:27 am
content: i do have a plain solid steel bar about 400mm long and 30mm diameterIts called "the descision maker" if i see something i am trying to decide if i should keep or send something to landfill or recycling one swoop of the descision maker decides for me!

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 11:08:04 am
content: I refer to it as a fine adjustment device

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 11:18:25 am
content: Universal adjuster tool. Equaliser.I have heard them referred to as an Irish screwdriver and A Scottish chisel, or Scottish spanner.

author: Zbig
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 01:39:20 pm
content: Hammer HD

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 01:46:12 pm
content: Universal fitment device.Tom, NW0LF

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 01:59:29 pm
content: russian diy repair for things still under warranty. doenst work? here is it swing on it 2 times and it will be just as good as new

author: backflipper
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 02:17:57 pm
content: My hammer's have always been called "heavy Harry" taken from my metal work teacher at college, Mr Neale (Sarge). He served for the Australian army as an engineer in the Vietnam war. He had some stories to tell.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 03:20:52 pm
content: My favorite in this thread so far has to be Gentle Persuasion. That is a hilarious name for a hammer, and I think I will adopt it. My usual hammer nickname is BFH, which I also rather like, but I have definitely had more occasions for some Gentle Persuasion than for a BFH.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 03:44:59 pm
content: Exactly. Who was it that fixed a Keithley 2015 with a hammer?

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:45:43 pm
content: In the garage is an anvil made from a piece of 1in stainless steel 316l plate ( a flame cut out pipe entry into a paper maker) which my father called "The Deep Blue Sea", as it still has the remnants of marking blue on it still around the edges. The hammer he most often used with it was known as "The Devil". Kind of appropriate but very unfortunate to those caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:52:29 pm
content: Kind of off thread, but years ago, when I was a salesman for Nabisco, my territory was Newark, NJ, which is basically the armpit of America. We weren't allowed to carry weapons but I had a 5 D cell flashlight in my company car that I called the attitude adjuster. I suppose the same could be said for hammers.Tom, NW0LF

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 04:58:19 pm
content: Kind of like the police Maglites then, they only work if you whack something soft with them.

author: smashedProton
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 05:50:37 pm
content: Alabama lie detector

author: Kryoclasm
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 07:05:12 pm
content: "The Solution"

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 09:23:08 pm
content: Quote from: smashedProton on November 17, 2013, 05:50:37 pm

author: dfmischler
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 10:10:28 pm
content: C'mon, guys. All hammers fit into the generic tool category of "beater". Many other tools may fit in this category too, either temporarily or permanentlySome of the other categories are: "glommers" are used to glom on to (i.e. grab) things. Ergo, pliers are "glommers". But anadjustable wrench(spanner to you Brits) may also be used as a beater."Cutters" is pretty self explanatory. This covers saws and stuff, not just nibblers and wire cutters."Points" are sharp things used to poke holes, etc. Dental picks may fit here, or maybe as "scrapers".Torches, soldering irons, heat guns, etc. are all "heaters".

author: notsob
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 10:37:21 pm
content: off topic - adjustable wrench aka 'AFS' Any F...ng Size

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 17, 2013, 11:08:15 pm
content: JEREMY CLARKSON ?

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 11:40:42 am
content: Quote from: free_electron on November 17, 2013, 11:08:15 pmHow hard can it be?What could possibly go wrong?On topic;The FixerVibrational Lubricator

author: poorchava
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 02:51:57 pm
content: Kind of off-topic, but when I used to work as a pizza delivery guy back in college days, we sometimes were getting orders from bad neighbourhoods so I had this bigass telescopic tire wrench, which I held next to the gear shift lever. The name in it said 'attitude shift lever'

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 03:28:18 pm
content: Quote from: peter.mitchell on November 18, 2013, 11:40:42 amAdd to that : where's my box of hammers ?Hence it thought it appropriate to name a hammer after him.

author: envisionelec
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 04:45:47 pm
content: Stanley Kirk Burrell"Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em"

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2013, 06:30:12 pm
content: Funny enough the biggest adjustable spanner I have is actually called " one size fits most", just because you cannot really place it on a M4 nut and tighten it without placing so much torque on it you break it.

author: 1.21 gigawhats
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 01:27:02 pm
content: Persuadatron

author: Biff383
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 01:39:07 pm
content: I also have to go with BFH, that's what I use when the LFH don't get it. If you gotta hit it more then twice get a bigger hammer. If I can't fix it, I can make sure you need a new one.

author: ecat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 03:05:47 pm
content: Tchaikovsky aka 'The Nutcracker' aka 'The Ex'ThumbulatorTherapyMr MasherMax

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 03:16:31 pm
content: Quote from: nanofrog on November 17, 2013, 03:23:49 amMy hammer is the law!

author: nanofrog
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 03:28:19 pm
content: Quote from: XOIIO on April 22, 2014, 03:16:31 pmJust add the innards out of a voice recordable greeting card to the hammer, and have it sayI am the Law!.Channel a little bit of that Judge Dredd vibe.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 03:50:38 pm
content: Quote from: nanofrog on April 22, 2014, 03:28:19 pmYup XDAlso a button to make it say "Judgement: guilty. Penalty: Death" Before you smash something that is pissing you off.

author: nihilism
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 04:34:35 pm
content: Variable Impact Adjustment Tool

author: kolbep
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 04:38:48 pm
content: In an afrikaans accent:The Moering Tool...

author: sprocket
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 05:05:09 pm
content: I call my hammers kinetic calibrators..

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2014, 06:26:01 pm
content: Quote from: kolbep on April 22, 2014, 04:38:48 pmYes, except in Afrikaans engineering everything is a moer. Including Joe.You have a knormoer in your car, and as you now have a fuel pump to help it along it does not grown too much now.

author: BTO
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2014, 11:12:43 am
content: "THE HAMMER" as in the WWF Sense of the WordNot Sure how everyone missed thatif that one is patented, then i would submit the following"CRUSHER"

author: krish2487
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2014, 01:00:54 pm
content: VetoCorleone....As in "The godfather"Making an offer you cant refuse....since 600 AD..>:-D

author: Anks
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2014, 02:29:10 pm
content: Pass me my fixing stick

author: retrolefty
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2014, 02:40:39 pm
content: Nail seeker.

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2014, 06:38:39 am
content: I've been calling my hammer an 'American Screwdriver' all day at work.Made me smile every time I picked it up.

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2014, 06:51:47 am
content: I use Mister for all my tools.Mr. HammerMr. Multimeterand so on, it always gets a smile. Pass me Mr. Hammer.

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2014, 07:09:14 am
content: Urist.

author: DenzilPenberthy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 28, 2014, 02:28:07 pm
content: Low temperature adjustment tool. (High temp adjustment tool being an oxyacetylene torch)my 7lb sledgehammer is called John Henry after the old country blues song about a railway spike driver who died trying to race a new-fangled steam drill at rock-drilling. See:also, I have a 5ft crowbar called 'The Complaints Department'

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 28, 2014, 03:19:34 pm
content: Quote from: HackedFridgeMagnet on April 24, 2014, 06:38:39 amThat is what SWMBO calls a butter knife. Not a hammer, but I had a 5 D-cell police flashlight that I called the "Attitude Adjuster".

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2014, 01:14:03 pm
content: Just the number one tool, second being the angle grinder and third is the stick welder, because life in a farm always requires percussive maintenance.Honorable mention goes to silicone/rtv and the all steel home made 10Kg hammer

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2014, 01:39:08 pm
content: Takeapparttool..

author: owiecc
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2014, 03:35:10 pm
content: Use a good RPG name. Polish railways use the Hammer of Safety. +10 for feeling secure to whomever is bearing it.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2014, 10:43:11 pm
content: WTF???Did I inspire a 5 page thread and didn't even realize it???And how can I possibly be the first person to suggest...M.C. Hammer!!!! (STOP.... Hammer time!)

author: lowimpedance
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2014, 11:38:03 pm
content: Lots of good names for the most essential tool for the Lab....................................................................................how about;inside out tool.when your done what ever was on the inside is definitely on the outside now.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 30, 2014, 01:51:33 am
content: Quote from: Smokey on April 29, 2014, 10:43:11 pmYes, I think you inspired this one...

author: envisionelec
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 01, 2014, 12:11:25 pm
content: Quote from: envisionelec on November 18, 2013, 04:45:47 pmQuote from: Smokey on April 29, 2014, 10:43:11 pmSorry.

author: EvilGeniusSkis
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2016, 10:52:03 pm
content: Quote from: nanofrog on November 17, 2013, 03:23:49 amJohn Henry's hammer [Johnny Cash song]

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 10, 2016, 12:05:27 am
content: Busticator.-Pat

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 10, 2016, 12:08:26 am
content: Quote from: Neilm on November 17, 2013, 11:08:04 amSo what's your coarse adjustment device - a pile driver?-Pat

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2016, 12:00:15 pm
content: In the software world we called it a debugging tool

author: BMK
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2016, 12:08:11 pm
content: Credit AvE...Thumb detector.

author: noidea
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 10, 2016, 03:39:10 pm
content: Back when I was a tradesman on the tools my father gave me a really nice old 32 Oz ball peen hammer, its name was "The Persuader" until some miserable ba$tard stole it

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2016, 07:54:30 pm
content: Finally got around to getting the vinyl cut and put on. Then a few coats of spray topcoat later.I actually was using it today, I needed a small portable anvil to make a pop rivet hold better in the hole it was in, so used it as the anvil while turning the rivet into a tinmans rivet.

author: sentry7
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2016, 11:15:07 pm
content: Hi-speed height offset compensator

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 11, 2016, 12:07:24 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on October 10, 2016, 07:54:30 pmI would say Gentle Persuasion would be a regular hammer, a 5 pound or so sledge would be Medium Persuasion, and a 20 pound sledge would be a Strong Persuader <queue Robert Cray>

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 11, 2016, 01:25:53 am
content: Quote from: BMK on October 10, 2016, 12:08:11 pmOh, yes. Especially with small nails and my tack hammer.

author: VK5RC
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 11, 2016, 02:47:56 am
content: In my book 'Gentle persuasion' has always been a big 'sledgie', nothing too pretty either.Reminded me of a great name for Aussie thongs or flip flops - 'Japanese safety boots' , no disrespect meant to Japanese who are far more sensible than the average Aussie, esp me!

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 11, 2016, 03:36:18 am
content: Quote from: VK5RC on October 11, 2016, 02:47:56 amWe call 'em Balinese safety boots. My hammer is a "Precision Adjustment Tool", although I have a feeling that might have come from Clarkson I've been using it for years. My wife knows what I want when I ask for it by name (the hammer too).

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 11, 2016, 05:19:31 am
content: Everything around here that is within reach is deemed a clobber stick by she who chucks stuff, I better go now before I get clobbered again.

author: g.lewarne
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 11, 2016, 09:49:53 am
content: My trusty hammer, mostly for Car repair use is called the "Analogue Precision Calibrator"

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 11, 2016, 05:49:41 pm
content: Well, I also have a Free State lockpick, otherwise known as a 1 meter long set of bolt cutters. Not used too often, but very handy in those instances where a lock is either rusted closed, the key has broken off or is lost.Plus I have used it to trim the Pride of India bush in the front, as it, along with a hacksaw, is about the only thing that can cut the older stems. Dad made a spade handle out of one of the larger stems, which is still used by my sister.

author: Kev840
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 18, 2018, 07:42:22 pm
content: Hard Reset

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2018, 11:19:00 pm
content: The one at left is called 'Reason', the other 'Going Bush'.Either one works well as a 10keyless, mechanical contact keyboard replacement in a pinch. Very ergonomic and satisfying to use.

author: bitwelder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 05:11:35 am
content: In my circle of friends we were calling it 'The Engineer': when you have a mechanical problem you cannot solve, just call The Engineer

author: drussell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 05:17:18 am
content: Thumb detectorSaskatchewan screwdriver

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 07:13:11 am
content: Universal Fix-it!

author: chris_leyson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 10:08:20 am
content: The Widlarizer.

author: SparkyFX
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 12:44:47 pm
content: Opinion Amplifier... comes in 250g, 500g, ...

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 01:48:31 pm
content: Windows 8 repair tool.

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 01:51:57 pm
content: OTP-MA One time programmable, metal adjuster

author: razberik
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 01:54:39 pm
content: The only tool in the world you need another tool of this kind to repair it.

author: Tedro
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 06:30:11 pm
content: Quote from: BMK on October 10, 2016, 12:08:11 pmFake Edit: that is all.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 07:45:59 pm
content: Plumbers screwdriverYankee spannerEuthanization toolAll are very applicable to usage styles I've observed at some time.But then again there's nothing very gentle about use of a hammer.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 08:05:23 pm
content: I beg to differ, there is an art of using a sodding huge hammer to deliver light taps to something to get it just perfect. No limit as to how gentle you can be with a big hammer, and a definite limit as to how hard you can hit with a small one.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 08:11:43 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on September 19, 2018, 08:05:23 pmGentle percussion ?Sounds like a contradiction in terms.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 08:31:18 pm
content: Take the case of a really big hammer, like those used to forge crankshafts, which can be adjusted from the "turn a block of red hot steel into a rough crank in one blow" to operating gently enough to close a tin can placed under the hammer on the anvil. a matter of control.Look up Shurap on YouTube, and see how he makes those exquisite Damascus knives of his from all sorts of every day steel objects.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 08:43:41 pm
content: Ok yes gentle operation of steam hammers of the past was a skill and a mate reckoned an old guy in their local workshop could close the back of a pocket watch with one !I'm sure I'd squash it flat !

author: Vtile
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2018, 09:17:22 pm
content: Universal calibrator

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2018, 12:02:30 am
content: if you want to destroy something electronic use a pick axe on gravel.Hammer does not really do it justice.

author: donkey77
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2018, 04:39:24 am
content: Paddy's paint brush.

author: cat87
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2018, 06:32:07 am
content: QuoteI was reading through this and really thought that that was missing.Also, off-topic, at some point I had acolleague at work who's name was Hammer. Oh, you can imagine the kinds of comments he got from us. "Hammer time" was of course one of them

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2018, 03:39:16 pm
content: At a factory I used to work 30 years ago, the general manager's last name was also Hammer. And he was an ex-marine, a tough SOB who actually made grown men cry who were unfortunate enough to be the target of his tirades.He called his weekly meetings "Hammer time". He would turn you into mush, if you did not deliver.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 05:40:11 am
content: Signal Generator!Waveform Generator!Pulse Generator !!!

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 11:53:31 am
content: impulse

author: taydin
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 01:01:04 pm
content: Knee jerkerInertial therapist

author: m98
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 01:48:50 pm
content: Stalingrad multitool, impulse generator

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2018, 03:06:11 pm
content: Quote from: taydin on September 26, 2018, 01:01:04 pmHow about 'Instant Silencer' ?

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2018, 04:26:07 am
content: Mechanical Function Generator

author: hendorog
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2018, 06:51:34 am
content: sudohttp://blog.reprap.org/2011/06/getting-rid-of-mendels-nuts.html

author: Fryguy
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2018, 09:07:04 am
content: I've got a nice 4" pipe wrench at work - i call it "my opinion amplifier" . . .

author: SLJ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 21, 2018, 09:13:31 pm
content: In the early eighties I worked on commercial radios. The guys that worked on consumer electronics had one hanging over their bench and called it their Sansui Alignment tool. I'm guessing Sansui wasn't one of their favorite receivers.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 21, 2018, 09:22:07 pm
content: Quote from: schmitt trigger on September 20, 2018, 03:39:16 pmthe original "the hammer",https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martel

author: raptor1956
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 22, 2018, 09:18:28 pm
content: Years ago (late 80's I think) I was watching a NASCAR race on one of the small ovals (Bull Rings) that virtually guarantee carnage and after one such incident a car came into the pits heavily damaged with sheet metal effecting the front wheels. The crew set about banging the metal in place using short handled sledge hammers and one of the commentators replied that the crew were using "Puerto Rican Speed Wrenches". Now, I want to be clear I'm not in favor of that kind of comment and the use of that kind of language suggests that person was comfortable in using it -- he had to have been a bit of a racist to say something like that. I just remember being shocked to hear something like that on national TV in that day and age.NASCAR was started by moonshine running good ol' boys and even into the late 80's there was still a few that persisted with not just non-PC but outright racist language. You won't hear that kind of language today, no one would be so stupid, but that doesn't mean the sentiment is gone either.Brian

author: Macbeth
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 22, 2018, 09:39:59 pm
content: Quote from: langwadt on November 21, 2018, 09:22:07 pmHammer Time!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo&feature=youtu.be&t=114I'm fucking old...

author: IanMacdonald
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 22, 2018, 10:01:44 pm
content: It's a fact that some hammers are more effective than others, and no I don't necessarily mean that heavier is better. My preferred instrument for general mechanics is a 2lb rectangular headed job. I guess it must have to do with the balance of shaft and head, but this one just seems to strike a more effective blow than most.

author: basinstreetdesign
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 23, 2018, 08:25:43 pm
content: I like the US military's name for them when they were trying to account for lots of cash gone somewhere: MOIGs, Manually-Operated Impact Generators and they were booked at over US$800 each.I had a friend who sometimes would get frustrated when debugging a complicated pcb and would employ the "bandsaw solution" - yep, he'd run the board through the bandsaw a couple of times and then order a new one.

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 23, 2018, 08:31:07 pm
content: Remember the AMD hammer?That's what use to happen to AMD processors around that time after they had their heatsinks removed and went up in smoke.