Pinch? Tool name needed

Toolsatan call it a Roughneck Utility Bar @ around £3

Its a nail puller

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:19:01 -0000, alan_m wrot= e:

Thanks! Utility bar brings up all sorts, I'll pick this one:

Why do they make claw hammers curved anyway? Pretty useless for the pos= ition of 50% of nails that need to be removed!

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In the event that all else has failed, and it seems tempting to actually= read the instructions, don't panic: Get a bigger hammer!

You may find that it was the width of the bar you borrowed that helped with the task. A narrower tool with a point contact at the pivot point may twist before lifting the nail. I have two of these bars and they are ideal for lifting floor boards as well as extracting the odd nail or two..

That's a Stanley wrecking bar (Google that phrase and loads of hits).

Available in B&Q. One of the most useful bits of kit any serious DIYer should have.

There are similar but better designed tools specifically for getting serrated chipboard nails out without doing too much damage to the flooring, I have this one, brilliant :-

It's called a Pry Bar. I've got one of these:

Ah, now -that's_ what I need to shift my old floor boards. I thought an electrician's bolster looked wrong!

Andy

Silly boy, that's for "chasing walls". Are they running away? (Cue is your refridgerator running joke)

Its called a "smack in the mouth"... just walk into B&Q and ask for one.

Ok, and I'll come down and demonstrate it to you when I'm finished with it.

"Do you want decking?"

Yes - it's the best nail remover I've come across - will even get them out with most of the head missing.

As long as you have room to swing it. There are times a proper pair of pincers are worth their eight in gold.

If only people used screws instead of nails.

ROFL!

And then you will find they use the wrong bits in power tools and the cross head rounds off as the screw gets tighter. You then have the problem of having to use a pry bar on a nail with teeth.

But most of them come out easier than nails. And most folk know what a torque control is on a power tool.

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Most people wouldn't recognise torque control if it bit them on the leg!

It wouldn't, that's the point of torque control :-)