> > -A rubber mallet. I have helped too many people put together things which needed a rubber mallet, and always had to make do with a makeshift solution.
> > Don "The Monkey'Almost completely unedited from the original. Just felt like sharing'man" Jackson
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> Lacking a rubber mallet, I sometimes put a rubber crutch tip on the business end of a claw hammer and pound away. Works fairly well.
> Howard

Heh... I don't have a claw hammer either. :-) However, when I have needed a rubber mallet, I have generally had access to a claw hammer, and often I have used some sort of jimmied up solution like the one you suggest. You know what they say about necessity...

Don "The Monkeyman" Jackson