Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?

Subject: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 05:19 AM

For those not familiar it is a hammer.

I have only come across one alternative phrase and that was "Bristol Lock-Pick"

what have Mudcatters come across in the way of another euphemism for the humble hammer?

TIA

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 06:26 AM

Banjo tuner?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 06:40 AM

Jeweller's screwdriver

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 06:59 AM

In Yorkshire a Manchester screwdriver is a hammer.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Effsee
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 07:37 AM

Bodhran fine tuning tool.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 10:38 AM

Glasgow screwdriver (in Edinburgh of course).

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,Roger Dunant
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 11:27 AM

Accrington screwdriver in Blackburn.

Baler twine. Macclesfield hinge.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: alex s
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 12:10 PM

The Persuader

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 01:39 PM

clout

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Joe_F
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 05:46 PM

There must be a name for insults of this kind.

Mexican breakfast: A cigarette & a cup of coffee.
Siberian privy: A stick to beat off the wolves.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 07:16 PM

Technical adjuster.

DC

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 11:19 PM

Thumper
Persuader
Italian [or Polish] screwdriver
Shifter [for moving heavy objects just a bit]
Stage one light bulb remover [think about it]

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 03:18 AM

Macclesfield Hinge - LOL
keep 'em coming

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,Dave Hunt
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 08:41 AM

Aboriginal breakfast - a cough, a piss and a gaze round the horizon

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 10:00 AM

Jemmy - Scouse car key.

:D tG

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 Feb 17 - 02:49 PM

Dave Hunt: I heard that, more broadly, as "Australian breakfast: A piss and a look around".

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,bizibod
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 08:45 AM

Enforcer/ Manual battering ram - Ovenden door key
From "Happy Valley" TV Series set in Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK.
*¬)
*

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 09:10 AM

A dingo's breakfast; "a scratch - a piss - and a look around". In other words, nothing at all.

More straightforward, A donkey's breakfast; a straw mattress, palliasse or pallet
Mississippi John Hurt – Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 09:31 AM

My father always used to look for the opportunity to ask people to hand him his "hammerfor".

"What's a hammerfor?"

"Knockin in nails".

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 09:52 AM

I heard the reference to a "Glasgow screwdriver" over 40 years ago, in Perthshire, so it's been arounf for a while, and not just in Edinburgh.
Latest one I heard was when a big bowl of crisps was handed round the musicians in a session, and an accordion player from Glasgow said, "Ah a Glasgow salad" :)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,Ray
Date: 01 Mar 17 - 01:14 PM

Then there is the Irish Cocktail - a pint of Guiness with a potato in it.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 02:36 AM

All pertinent - as we used to say in the Royal Navy, if you can't fix it with a hammer, it's fucked!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: BobL
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 03:13 AM

Ford Special Tool #1

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 03:19 AM

Maximum force self-adjusting tool, is what my brother-in-law used to call it.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 07:43 AM

Somewhere I heard an Oz song about a swaggie with the lines:

"A flamin' good breakfast before headin' off;
Billy tea, a roley and a bloody good cough...."

Actually, it might have been a Kiwi song,"flaming" being a somewhat more common adjective in NZ than in Oz.

Dunno why it stuck in my memory; probably because I used to have that breakfast menu myself...before I discovered coffee.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 04:13 AM

NZ phrase for a tea break is:
"Spello, smoko"

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,Dave Hunt
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 05:44 AM

If you can't fix it with a hammer it's an electrical fault

If it moves but it shouldn't - Gaffa tape
If it should move but it doesn't - WD40

what more do you need

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 09:14 AM

First came across the term working in a factory making track rod ends in N Wales.

I don't know of any similar term for the tool but something like "a bit of gentle persuasion" could suggest the need for a knock with something, perhaps more commonly there a good old copper mallet.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 02:33 PM

Tried and tested precision engineering technique - Hit it with a hammer.



And if that doesn't work - GET A BIGGER HAMMER.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST,Dave Hunt
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 04:29 AM

Percussive maintenance.....

Subject: RE: Folklore: Brumagem screwdriver - alternative to?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Mar 17 - 05:17 AM

Confucius, he say "When your only tool is a hammer, all problems start looking like nails."