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I found my right handed Home Depot (Ridgid) Hammer today after about 12 or 13 years of missing it. Since I don't use hammers that much, It is often a long time between usages and I did not remember where I last used it.
(I am wiring the outside of my house with 4 cameras to watch the activity, both recorded and movements sent to my phone when I am gone. The location of the unit inside is near the house central Wifi unit because it needs to be hardwired to it to send to my iPhone.)
Anyway, while in the attic and over the area where the modem is, I pulled up the insulation next to where I was going to feed wire into the wall down to the camera system, and there was my hammer. I apparently used it and laid it on a 2x6 and it fell between the batting and 2x6. I found a screw driver also.
Do any of you remember HD/Ridgid making right hand and left hand hammers? I don't remember when I bought it - sometimes around 1996 or 2000 when I was home for several months from Japan. I remember that I almost bought a left handed hammer for LOML, but then figured she wouldn't like a 16 ounce hammer! Below are the picts of it, and I do need to clean it. The "right handed" and "left handed" hammers are the result of the Handle moulded with right hand grip or left hand grip. IF you look close on the head just in front of where the handle joins the head you will see a zig-zag cut. This was supposed to be to reduce shock when hitting something like concrete or solid steel.
This was the same hammer I lost when I was in Toyota City Japan for 7 years. I lost it for about 4 or 5 years. Just after moving there, I built a 9x12 small workshop in the back yard that was only about 14 x 30. The 9x12 was only 4 feet from the edge of the house. when finishing the roof while on a ladder, I reached back to the edge of the roof of the house and set the hammer in the gutter while I made some adjustments to the ladder, and forgot about the hammer, but I did look high and low for several years. Then after getting on the roof of the 9x12 to fix a piece of roofing after a typhoon, I spotted the hammer handle in the gutter at the edge of the house, and suddenly remembered letting go of it when on the ladder.
This hammer has been lost for as much time as it has been in a usable place!
eBay Ridgid Left handed handle for sale here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/305880358675?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110 006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D27710 9%2C276749%26meid%3D4c6aea44fa144cff8afc564f657742 c6%26pid%3D101875%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D326245 018463%26itm%3D305880358675%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26 pg%3D2332490%26algv%3DSimVIDwebV3WithCPCExpansionE mbeddingSearchQuerySemanticBroadMatchSingularityRe call%26brand%3DRIDGID&_trksid=p2332490.c101875.m18 51&itmprp=cksum%3A3058803586754c6aea44fa144cff8af c 564f657742c6%7Cenc%3AAQAJAAABQNthdh9o32sOfKme0krmx 3yc5y0DRWWwwpiraCEsA5rOcanQjqu91drTeDElZLF31uaWQXa Q2pNTl5IMyA1OfooQwqEcJUvtG9LvKPKHgcRzphx12iPvBSva6 1o%252BMhuWL5%252FbSvU%252BkCETlJZQy%252B%252BRRyZ O2HszaGgILl9DtvX80u2ktrAo5c5r0pRzmOwZrvck74%252BdT Rbgrl4P7HDLAx6HZt6Xw%252BYGZ4GDi8lDsPMl5xI3S8Siq5x 0g2nW5lp7wlm4Zm%252BZiqUtK4wqJ5FU4U9E7jhJTy9HGHAks m6QGNOVliuvLadprqat3OAgrWjsM2%252FpU0tbnlV5r3TXsMk Z1DQutqcf04hZDiNDDXToA5fzN0q9SJJZU3zYI4%252FUVV7gg l3vdkwRR6Eaomw%252Btp%252FuJ11cIcMAD3NV1o1PwcP0Amm bxmbu%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2332490&itmmeta=01J DDS35Y5VS2X8MW9R35PCNQ8
(I am wiring the outside of my house with 4 cameras to watch the activity, both recorded and movements sent to my phone when I am gone. The location of the unit inside is near the house central Wifi unit because it needs to be hardwired to it to send to my iPhone.)
Anyway, while in the attic and over the area where the modem is, I pulled up the insulation next to where I was going to feed wire into the wall down to the camera system, and there was my hammer. I apparently used it and laid it on a 2x6 and it fell between the batting and 2x6. I found a screw driver also.
Do any of you remember HD/Ridgid making right hand and left hand hammers? I don't remember when I bought it - sometimes around 1996 or 2000 when I was home for several months from Japan. I remember that I almost bought a left handed hammer for LOML, but then figured she wouldn't like a 16 ounce hammer! Below are the picts of it, and I do need to clean it. The "right handed" and "left handed" hammers are the result of the Handle moulded with right hand grip or left hand grip. IF you look close on the head just in front of where the handle joins the head you will see a zig-zag cut. This was supposed to be to reduce shock when hitting something like concrete or solid steel.
This was the same hammer I lost when I was in Toyota City Japan for 7 years. I lost it for about 4 or 5 years. Just after moving there, I built a 9x12 small workshop in the back yard that was only about 14 x 30. The 9x12 was only 4 feet from the edge of the house. when finishing the roof while on a ladder, I reached back to the edge of the roof of the house and set the hammer in the gutter while I made some adjustments to the ladder, and forgot about the hammer, but I did look high and low for several years. Then after getting on the roof of the 9x12 to fix a piece of roofing after a typhoon, I spotted the hammer handle in the gutter at the edge of the house, and suddenly remembered letting go of it when on the ladder.
This hammer has been lost for as much time as it has been in a usable place!
eBay Ridgid Left handed handle for sale here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/305880358675?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110 006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D27710 9%2C276749%26meid%3D4c6aea44fa144cff8afc564f657742 c6%26pid%3D101875%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D326245 018463%26itm%3D305880358675%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26 pg%3D2332490%26algv%3DSimVIDwebV3WithCPCExpansionE mbeddingSearchQuerySemanticBroadMatchSingularityRe call%26brand%3DRIDGID&_trksid=p2332490.c101875.m18 51&itmprp=cksum%3A3058803586754c6aea44fa144cff8af c 564f657742c6%7Cenc%3AAQAJAAABQNthdh9o32sOfKme0krmx 3yc5y0DRWWwwpiraCEsA5rOcanQjqu91drTeDElZLF31uaWQXa Q2pNTl5IMyA1OfooQwqEcJUvtG9LvKPKHgcRzphx12iPvBSva6 1o%252BMhuWL5%252FbSvU%252BkCETlJZQy%252B%252BRRyZ O2HszaGgILl9DtvX80u2ktrAo5c5r0pRzmOwZrvck74%252BdT Rbgrl4P7HDLAx6HZt6Xw%252BYGZ4GDi8lDsPMl5xI3S8Siq5x 0g2nW5lp7wlm4Zm%252BZiqUtK4wqJ5FU4U9E7jhJTy9HGHAks m6QGNOVliuvLadprqat3OAgrWjsM2%252FpU0tbnlV5r3TXsMk Z1DQutqcf04hZDiNDDXToA5fzN0q9SJJZU3zYI4%252FUVV7gg l3vdkwRR6Eaomw%252Btp%252FuJ11cIcMAD3NV1o1PwcP0Amm bxmbu%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2332490&itmmeta=01J DDS35Y5VS2X8MW9R35PCNQ8
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