> > > -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
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> 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...
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> Don "The Monkeyman" Jackson

Rubber mallets are good. I'm not even sure why, except that they're both useful AND seem like something Wile E. Coyote would pull out of a box labelled "Acme". I was always disappointed that they don't make a humorous cartoony "boing" noise when you whack something with one. Claw hammers also played a part in my eccentric childhood. My dad is a boatbuilder and cabinetmaker and I used to spend most of my time getting in his way in the boatshed when I was little, so he'd give me an offcut of wood, a bunch of bent nails and a claw hammer, and I'd spent hours futilely trying to hammer them in straight and then pull them out again.

Brunnen-"easily amused"G