This we found amusing. Aldi have a "Stubby Hammer" on sale for £2.91. For use in confined spaces. Might be of use in some engine bays with no space to work.
Not exactly motoring related but a little more light hearted than some of the threads this week:
www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/2827_8352.htm
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Handy for trolls on the website.
Edited by rtj70 on 18/12/2008 at 20:23
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Any good for smashing windows or a an alternative to a jack handle? :-)
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I bought one of these from B&Q some months ago...exactly the same. I don't like it at all. It feels unbalanced and your hand is too close to the head with the result that you keep knocking it on the work. I think the head is probably heavier than the handle.
If anyone wants mine, send me a tenner !
Ted
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"If anyone wants mine, send me a tenner !"
But I could get an equally useless one from Aldi for £2.91. I don't see the point either. Does anyone else have an opinion? I posted as it amused me a little and thought it was pointless.
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handy for a small child to knock the dents out of my petrol tank.
my hands are to big to reach inside
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Got to try and make a profit nj70........I think mine was under £3.00
Ted
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Not exactly motoring related ..........
Shame on you for disobeying the rigid rules that you apply to us lesser mortals!
;-)
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Of more interest is the £35 car CD/radio/MP3 (whatever the latter is/does). Perhaps dseerves a thread in its own right...
www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/2827_8339.htm
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In my tool kit there is a small ring spanner cut to be 1/3rd its normal length. I can vaguely remember cutting it in perhaps the early 70`s, but can`t remember which car demanded it. Tappets on something maybe? or the rocker cover?
I find it a revelation to see the tools for confined spaces that can be bought of the shelf these days - on view in Halfords and as attractive as a sticks of Blackpool rock were in childhood.
Does anyone else remember cutting tools in half (or other modifications) for a job - in the Olden Days?
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Still do! One of my bicycles is a fixed wheel with a bolt on rear hub, my wheel removal tool is a 15mm ring spanner cut in half, saves weight and fits in the saddle-pack.
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On the local gold mines, any spanner has a strange handle - even if it was a 50mm, it had a handle of about 8 inches, with a T-bar on the end.
This was to ensure that some unlearned chap WON'T put a pipe over the handle, in a misguided attempt to achieve the neccesary leverage.
So if you can't shift it, call a supervisor who'll come along with the extension bar that fits, and the training.
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Edited by bathtub tom on 19/12/2008 at 20:28
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Pinto tappets?
I've tried to post this two places higher up twice now! I give up!!
Edited by bathtub tom on 19/12/2008 at 20:30
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Pinto tappets! I have a suitable warmed and bent 19mm for just that job when I did the OHC Pinto Ford thing.
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Looking at the engine bay on most cars then you'd not be able to use this anywhere in there. Looking at the new Mazda6, I can see no way of easily replacing a headlight bulb.
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Similar to you Chrome I've loads of cut down tools. Often buy used tools (duplicates to my proper ones) at the tip and then use them when I need to make something special. For my small boat I've made up a full set of stuff all cut down to the min length needed for acceptable leverage. Stores in a little box and id very handy.
The hammer at Aldi is daft. If it was made for confined spaces they should have left off the nail removal claw. I reckon it was just a batch where they made the handles in cms from a drawing in inches.
David
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Some of the other tools on offer in Aldi looked better value to me. I need some as my step-son "borrowed" some of mine and they have "disappeared". I thought the bright LED stick on lights could be handy for temporary looking under the bonnet (or similar) at night. And the wind-up LED torch could be very handy for us motorists - no need to keep a set of batteries with it.
.. but the silly little hammer I thought was silly but amusing. I still cannot see the point. If you cannot swing the hammer then why have such a big head?
Edited by rtj70 on 19/12/2008 at 17:02
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Pinto tappets! I have a suitable warmed and bent 19mm for just that job when I did the OHC Pinto Ford thing
I still have a cut down spanner for adjusting the carb jet on the early minis
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I bought a 14mm "obstruction spanner", which is a ring spanner curved into a "bathtub" shape, for access to nuts that are part-obscured by tubing.
It's a godsend on my motorbike for tightening the cylinder base nuts, which are otherwise almost inaccessible because of frame tubing, exhaust pipes etc.
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i have an old penny (cut-down and bent) fastened to the handle of one of my 14mm ring spanners, this slots neatly and tightly into the spanner head when tightening/loosening 13mm bolts/nuts. I've given up buying 13mm spanners because this is the size that the "Fairies" always seem to nick in the night! - and now they've started on the 10mm ones. Soon, my tool kit will consist of one 50mm spanner and hundreds of bent pennies to fashion every usual size.
Billy
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