You tool!

That's what you get for buying an Estwing copy! Probably happened when hammering a nail in.


I have dropped both of my battery drivers out of first story bedroom windows onto concrete, but there is nothing to show for it as I buy decent tools :p.
 
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My tool abuse extends only as far as shearing the head off a crappy French-made Stanley pozi screw driver from a set I have. I have the same set but British made and have abused the crap out of them for 10 years+ with no issues.

I use tools lots, but look after them. :p

I don't know how anyone could easily top a mangled hammer.
 
When I was an apprentice my mate left the chuck key in the big lathe and switched it on. This was a 1.5m bed length lathe and the chuck was about 400mm diameter. We were turning big left-handed threads on something or other so the speed was right down and working on the gearing going backwards to normal. Suffice to say it cranked round in comically slow motion and ripped the guard and entire fibreglass back off the machine before mangling the chuck key which must have been nearly 25mm diameter steel :p
 
Jonny69 said:
When I was an apprentice my mate left the chuck key in the big lathe and switched it on. This was a 1.5m bed length lathe and the chuck was about 400mm diameter. We were turning big left-handed threads on something or other so the speed was right down and working on the gearing going backwards to normal. Suffice to say it cranked round in comically slow motion and ripped the guard and entire fibreglass back off the machine before mangling the chuck key which must have been nearly 25mm diameter steel :p
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At college I had the lathe set up for automatic feed for slow screw type cutting then for some stupid reason changed it all back to normal high speed cutting without disengaging the self feed, needless to say the tool slammed into a fairly high speed chuck with a bang :p
 
Reminds me when 17, I started in a joinery shop been there a few months, & I got the job of cutting finger joints with a large spindle moulder & a 4" insert finger joint router cutter, sadly I didn't tighten it enough in the chuck, & it was launched skyward at very high speed, & it punched a very large hole through the asbestos roof of the workshop.:o
 
Excellent tool abuse.

I broke a gardening fork up my allotment so I borrowed my old Mas & snapped that as well all in the space of about 10 minutes. :D
 
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