Funny 1 star Amazon tool reviews

[whateg01]

I really enjoy 1 star Amazon reviews. They're just oh so good. I'm making this thread to share the good ones I come across.

This genius is using USA made cable cutters to cut steel cable. COMEDY

I still don't know why this is so funny. Unless the description says specifically 'not for use on steel cable', why would somebody just instinctively know that? A lot of people don't even understand that not all metal is the same.

 

[whateg01]

One time at Autozone I sold a breaker bar and a 30mm socket. The guy went outside, stuck it on his CV axle nut, jumped on it and snapped the breaker bar. Then brought it back inside and got his money back.

I would get my money back too if the breaker bar can't handle that. It would hate seeing a cheater pipe coming its way!

 

[Sparky Six Axis]

I still don't know why this is so funny. Unless the description says specifically 'not for use on steel cable', why would somebody just instinctively know that? A lot of people don't even understand that not all metal is the same.

If you look up images of "cable cutters" and "wire rope cutters" you'll see the difference. Cable cutters are big. You can cut 500 kcmil copper with them. But wire rope cutters are small. Very different tools.

I would get my money back too if the breaker bar can't handle that. It would hate seeing a cheater pipe coming its way!

You must not live in the rust belt. You can't just use a breaker bar and a pipe. You need to use heat and PB Blaster on every single screw, nut, etc. Even with that chances are youll need a grinder.

 

[whateg01]

If you look up images of "cable cutters" and "wire rope cutters" you'll see the difference. Cable cutters are big. You can cut 500 kcmil copper with them. But wire rope cutters are small. Very different tools.

Again, why would the average Joe know that? For that matter, I bet the average Joe has not even heard the term wire rope. It's all cable to him.

You must not live in the rust belt. You can't just use a breaker bar and a pipe. You need to use heat and PB Blaster on every single screw, nut, etc. Even with that chances are youll need a grinder.

I dunno. Is Kansas in the rust belt? My f150 thinks so. Still doesn't change the fact that a breaker bar the snaps when you stand on it is pretty useless.

 

[Sparky Six Axis]

Again, why would the average Joe know that? For that matter, I bet the average Joe has not even heard the term wire rope. It's all cable to him.


I dunno. Is Kansas in the rust belt? My f150 thinks so. Still doesn't change the fact that a breaker bar the snaps when you stand on it is pretty useless.

In Illinois we break breaker bars. Impact tools are the way to go but 50 gallon compressors cost a ton.

I'm glad I make enough money now that I can pay someone to work on my stuff. I don't miss crawling under a truck and getting rust in my eyes.

 

[rust in the eye]

In Illinois we break breaker bars. Impact tools are the way to go but 50 gallon compressors cost a ton.

I'm glad I make enough money now that I can pay someone to work on my stuff. I don't miss crawling under a truck and getting rust in my eyes.

You rang?

 

[rust in the eye]

By the time I got to Don's (d42jeep) "Secret Santa" package a couple years ago, I'd already gotten all the other stuff all packed up and ready to go, and I had depleted my "packing material" down to almost nothing.
I went out and tipped over my recycle bin and picked all the plastic bags out of it and used those for packing material. (That was the box that had the big Kennedy cantilevered box in it.
I've had to resort to that in a couple other instances as well. I believe that @Caleb T's "Secret Santa" package had its share of plastic bags jammed into it as well.
Packed is packed.


Having to pull, pick, and peel tape off of tools you've purchased online is a pain in the ***.
Proper packaging method described above. (post #28)

Was it you?
WTF, I didn't mummify them.

 

[Sparky Six Axis]

You rang?

Yes I did. You from Illinois? If so you know what rust in the eyes feels like. Also Coolant has a distinct taste. Sweet and bitter. I've also gotten gasoline up my nose, but let's not talk about that.

Can you confirm that breaker bars don't work in Illinois?

 

[YesIHaveAHammer]

A lot of people don't even understand that not all metal is the same.

How simple their world must be.

It's amazing sometimes when you realise the things people don't know.

 

[four.cycle]

Again, why would the average Joe know that? For that matter, I bet the average Joe has not even heard the term wire rope. It's all cable to him.

He wouldn't.
Expecting "average Joe" to know the difference is delusional.
Feel free to tell me I'm stupid, but I had no clue.

 

[dlwilson]

Bought a $40.00 harbor freight battery load tester.
Directions say “Will smoke on first use” burning off manufacturing stuff.
one star review said” junk smoked the first time I hooked it up”!,
im probably in the minority,even if I know how to use something I read through the literature that comes with new stuff.

I bought that tester. I don't usually read the directions, but I did that time, and was really glad I did when the tester started smoking the first time I used it.

 

[Bubba Fett]

Go look at the reviews for the Klein 11 in 1 screwdriver (32500).

People complain because they can't figure out how to access the other bits, or are mad because it doesn't take standard 1" inset bits. How hard it is to read the directions...or you-tube it?

 

[OccupantRJ]

He wouldn't.
Expecting "average Joe" to know the difference is delusional.
Feel free to tell me I'm stupid, but I had no clue.

I have been doing mechanical work for 60 years and had to look up the difference because I wanted to know. I saw that cable seems to be more flexible and normally used for controls, and 3/8” or below. Wire rope was larger and for more structural uses. Yet with that info I have never heard the term used as a wire rope suspension bridge. It has always been described as a cable-stay suspension bridge.