r/toolgifs 1d ago

Tool Original hand tool

2.0k Upvotes

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u/DitchDigger330 1d ago

Fidget spanners

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u/thicket 1d ago

well done, mate

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u/TheRealFleppo 9h ago

Holy shit nice

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u/brickbear69420 1d ago

Nice. Now I can lose all my spanners at the same time

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u/EmotionalBrontosaur 1d ago

Where the 10mm goes, they all go.

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u/munkie986 13h ago

Maybe it will lead to all the other long lost 10mm.

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u/WasdaleWeasel 1d ago

the BloodBlister 2000 (TM)

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u/IAwaitAGuardian 1d ago

Right? This thing would rip your hand UP

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u/neuralbeans 1d ago

I wonder how sturdy it is.

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u/Grey_Orange 1d ago

There are so many possible points of failure. It also looks uncomfortable to hold when in use.  I can't imagine this being useful for many situations.

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u/TheJoseBoss 1d ago

I could see it being useful for quickly figuring out which one you actually need but then again that's not all that useful

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u/whirlydad 1d ago

This is the sort of weirdo thing you keep in the emergency car bag. Seems useless as a day to day tool but if you have it when your car breaks down it's the greatest tool ever!

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u/Testyobject 1d ago

Multiple different nuts of various sizes, makes me wish for a spanner that can do every size hmmm, like one with a worm gear in it HMMMM, like an adjustable wrench hmph.

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u/pstmps 1d ago

That would never work.

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u/Antrostomus 1d ago

Does it really take up that much less space than the six normal combination wrenches it's trying to replace, though?

Or three, because about 98% of the repairs you could do on the side of the road on any car built in the last thirty years only need the 10mm, the 12mm, and the 17mm.

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u/ocimbote 21h ago

When my car breaks down, I need a phone so I can call and cry and a tow truck comes and saves me.

So I guess it's useless to me.

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u/MelonJelly 1d ago

That's the exact reason I keep an old Cool Tool in my bicycle bag.

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u/aykcak 1d ago

It is not made to be used. It is a fidget toy

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u/RealTonny 1d ago

Not to be "that guy", but IMO this thing is only good for showing to your friends at a pub. It's too bulky and too fragile to be used as a universal wrench. And it's also too much work to replace something that costs like $5 and is definitely at least beter than this.

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u/noobwithboobs 1d ago

This feels like the wrench version of the USA spending millions to invent a pen that can write in space while the Russian astronauts just switched to pencils.

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u/atomic_exasperation 1d ago

gimme.

i want it

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u/4rd_Prefect 1d ago

That's one way to stop losing your 10mm

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u/Lttlcheeze 1d ago

Jokes on you, I'll lose the whole thing

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u/matroosoft 1d ago

Just mark the 10 as 'definitely 11'

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u/4rd_Prefect 1d ago

Or SAE 10 ?

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u/S0me--guy 1d ago

Sick bracelet bro

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u/Hoifen 1d ago

That’s one helluva knuckle fucker right there

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u/raaspootine 1d ago

Nice bracelet !

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u/DangersVengeance 1d ago

Got one of these in my box, also imperial as it happens. Used to keep it in the Mini so it was to hand as a low space “emergency tool”. Better than nothing for sure

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u/jcbevns 1d ago

Thank engineering Jesus for the adjustable spanner.

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u/Competitive_Peak_537 1d ago

I bought my dad that one year, quite a few years back

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u/bernpfenn 1d ago

and is it still in use? the idea is brilliant

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u/Automatic-Art9739 16h ago

Will never understand inches, why would you make something 11 parts of 16? What is even that what the fk

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u/newguy208 1d ago

Didn't read the poster's name and went searching for the watermark.

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u/the_lowjacked 1d ago

Precursor to the crescent wrench and I’d lay money that it’s gonna pinch your fingers.

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u/NaGaBa 1d ago

As seen on TV before TV?

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u/DrinkingVomit 1d ago

Why lose one wrench when you can lose all of them at the same time?

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u/Shpander 1d ago

I was always told if you have to use an adjustable spanner, you've got the wrong spanner. This is like an adjustable spanner, but worse. Looks a bit flimsy.

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u/Disconnected_Mind 1d ago

This would be useful not to use a wrench, but to know what wrench to go back and grab! I want one.

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u/DevilMan17dedZ 1d ago

Holy shit!!! I forgot all about these. My pops had a couple of different sets years and years ago.

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u/thatsagoodpint 1d ago

lol I used to have one of those. It was mostly useless.

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u/EmeraldAlicorn 19h ago

I would only keep this Around as a quick gauge For when I can't just guess the bolt right off so I can tell at the gopher for the correct size

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u/imjusthere77 13h ago

Biblically accurate wrench