I find this very amusing

[mowersplus84]

I so one of the guys at the shop who likes using at lot of old school methods. witch there is nothing wrong with was use using one of his matco flat head screw drivers and a hammer to take off a flywheel on a 10hp briggs engine so about 10 minutes in the guys screwdriver breaks and he stars cussing about how matco screw drivers a nothing but ****.


it seems you have more of these kinds of people who use a tool incorrectly or not as they are supposed to be use like using screw driver as a pry bar or using chrome sockets on and impact gun . then ***** about the tools being ****.
sorry its not the tools fault if your too stupid to now how to use it right

 

[Mohawk Dave]

True. And I find your grasp of the Amercan-English language very amusing.

Hitting the sauce a little hard tonight?

Just razzin' ya. But a proofread is a good thing.

 

[stratman977]

I never had to pull up that hard on the screwdriver to make that trick work. Usually I hold a brass hammer on the crank and a screwdriver in one hand and whack the brass hammer with a ball peen in the other hand. He must have really been whaling on the screwdriver.

I wouldn't use that trick on a new $2500 v twin but most of my equipment is old junk anyway.

 

[mowersplus84]

What i don't understand is why he just didn't grab a puller and use it we have a service cart that has nothing but pullers .

 

[pepi]

What i don't understand is why he just didn't grab a puller and use it we have a service cart that has nothing but pullers .

That would have taken too much effort, hope it was his common screw driver that he phucked up. The reward for a job not well done, funny how that happens, and the very reason I fix stuff myself.

You send out or take your whatever in or out for repairs 8 out of 10 times it comes back worse and missing parts when returned....... and you paid to have a clown do that ... what a deal!

 

[Jarcese]

The worst is when you find Amazon reviews where the person gives a good tool a bad review because they use it wrong.

I saw one for a Bosch Impact gun where the guy said his screwdriver bits were getting stuck in the gun and rounding off. The guy mentioned the type of bits they were too and they obviously were not impact bits. Now it brings down the star rating because he is an idiot and if you were just browsing, you might skip over it. I see guys at work using drive sockets as impact sockets all the time, but if they want to break their own tools, that's fine with me.

Saw another one for a Beismeyer table saw fence rule. The lady gave it one star because it was hard to read when she was measuring her kids height because the numbers were sideways. No s***, because it's a table saw rule. All five star reviews except for that one and now it reads as 4.5 stars.

 

[justanengineer]

I find it amusing how many folks on here will point to magazine "tests" that push tools way beyond their design limit as "proof" of quality, but if somebody does similar on the job via a common trick hes an idiot.

FWIW, I agree with the guy in that Matco screwdrivers are POS. I dont use screwdrivers as prybars often, but when I need to I absolutely LOVE my old Stanleys for that exact purpose.

 

[mowersplus84]

I complete understand improvising when you don't have the tool you need but when you have a set of pry bars why the heck would u use a screw driver.

 

[03protege]

The worst is when you find Amazon reviews where the person gives a good tool a bad review because they use it wrong.

Or when people give it a bad review because it didn't include the size they want. Jackasses are too dumb to read the contents.

 

[mowersplus84]

Or when people give it a bad review because it didn't include the size they want. Jackasses are too dumb to read the contents.

Yeah I laugh when i see that no set that i know of has ever size socket and wrench

 

[creativecars]

I find it amusing how many folks on here will point to magazine "tests" that push tools way beyond their design limit as "proof" of quality, but if somebody does similar on the job via a common trick hes an idiot.

FWIW, I agree with the guy in that Matco screwdrivers are POS. I dont use screwdrivers as prybars often, but when I need to I absolutely LOVE my old Stanleys for that exact purpose.

Yep, but if you can tell me how much torque he put on the screwdriver abusing it as a prybar I just might buy one. And if he uses a different one and does not break it, I will know its idiot proof.

 

[crewchief888]

i thought everybody knew not to use a straight screwdriver to remove a flywheel.


yer 'spose to use a phillips

 

[bobcatdan]

I find it amusing how many folks on here will point to magazine "tests" that push tools way beyond their design limit as "proof" of quality, but if somebody does similar on the job via a common trick hes an idiot.

FWIW, I agree with the guy in that Matco screwdrivers are POS. I dont use screwdrivers as prybars often, but when I need to I absolutely LOVE my old Stanleys for that exact purpose.

What do you mean the matco's ****, my rebadge witte matcos with the little carpet on the handles are awesome. Granted I don't use them as punches, most of the time.

 

[Piles]

It bugs me to no end that we as humans created the perfect prybar/scraper for many situations, then say don't use it as a pry bar. Then on top of that the purpose it is actually supposed to be used for has changed so it is no longer effective.


Probably why I have dozens of "beater" drivers.

 

[mudflap]

Why do you think they charge $30 for a $3 screwdriver....Everbody says they pay truck prices for the "service".....Nows his chance to get some service..

 

[czgunner]

It bugs me to no end that we as humans created the perfect prybar/scraper for many situations, then say don't use it as a pry bar. Then on top of that the purpose it is actually supposed to be used for has changed so it is no longer effective.


Probably why I have dozens of "beater" drivers.

I don't get it either.
Why can't somebody design a screw driver that is made for what we all use them for?
When I "abuse" the screw drivers, it's because none of my prybars or scrapers will work. They are too big, or too blunt.

 

[TheCarbideRat]

I don't get it either.
Why can't somebody design a screw driver that is made for what we all use them for?
When I "abuse" the screw drivers, it's because none of my prybars or scrapers will work. They are too big, or too blunt.

Try Stanley STA67546, they even have striking caps. I got a Husky flathead some years ago, [red handle] I have yet not been able to destroy.

 

[Brad54]

At the magazine's tech shop, one of the other tech editors (known to be a moody SOB) was cleaning the shop one day and when I threw something in the trash can, there was a MAC long-shank gasket scraper in there with a busted blade.
I said "Hey, why's this in here?"
He yelled "Because so-and-so borrowed it before he moved back to California and broke it!"
"Well, get it warrantied. It's a MAC... and a MAC truck goes to the place down the road every Thursday."
"**** it! I'm shouldn't have to bother with it! He should have gotten it taken care of before he left! I'm throwing it away!"
I looked at him, and said "Hell, I'm not proud..." and reached into the garbage can and took it out.
On Thursday, I went to to the MAC dealer, and he said he couldn't replace it because he didn't have one on the truck (he never came by our shop). He gave me a number to call at corporate to get it replaced.
I called, sent in the broken one, and two weeks later got a brand new one in the mail.

The other guy's boss/editor happened to be in my office when it came, so I opened it up and told him the story. He looked at me and said "Now... if you wanted to be a good guy, you'd go give that to him."
I looked at him and said "WHY? He was being a baby about it and throwing a hissy fit. He could have done exactly what I did, but didn't because he was having another one of his tantrums. And you want me to reward him for having another tantrum? That's why he HAS tantrums! Everyone keeps coddling him.
No, I'm going to keep it.
And I'm going to make sure he sees me using it every chance I get.
Maybe then he'll realize being a baby didn't help. THAT is the only way he's going to learn... not by letting everyone cater to his tantrums."

I had a snap-on scraper already, so I took the MAC and rounded the corners off on it and beveled the edge around the corners--with him in the shop watching!--so I had one scraper to go after hard stuff, another to use on sheetmetal when I wanted to be sure I wasn't going to dig the blade's corner in and make a crease in the metal.

That's my best "Shop Baby" story.
A dozen years later, I think about it every time I grab the tool and use it.

-Brad

 

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