Funny And Surprising Amateur Engineering Fixes

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When You Really Need A Mallet

Unless you're a mechanic or a carpenter, you're probably not very likely to have a mallet on hand when you need it. Hammers are much more common but sometimes you just can't use the hard head of a hammer and need something a bit softer. This person found themselves in such a situation and instead of giving up, they made their own mallet out of a hammer and some rubber bands.

Now, it probably doesn't work quite as well as an actual mallet, but it beats using a hammer and inevitably damaging whatever they need to hammer into place.