Comments on: Cheap-Ass Tools: MalletHead

By: April Reeves

April Reeves — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:46:48 +0000

I have visited the MalletHead website, and my e-mail to this website was also returned. I have done some checking into this product which claims to have a patent, but instead may be infringing on US patent rights of someone else to sell this product in the US. Maybe that is the why they are having buisness problems, maybe the Idea of this product was stolen.

By: vodid

vodid — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:06:36 +0000

My local Harbor Freight has discontinued this item, and when I wrote to the email address listed on the Mallethead Corporate site, my mail was returned…their “mailbox quota has been exceeded”.

It looks like a good idea that is possibly having business troubles.

By: BJ Ladder

BJ Ladder — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:42:07 +0000

Now that’s a cheap-ass tool.. i think i’m going to get one myself..

By: melee

melee — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:02:17 +0000

That’s pretty clever, and I suppose the color coding is better than nothing, but it still requires you to memorize which is which. That’s fine if you use it a lot, but I won’t be, and since there’s no clear order of red, white, and blue, I’d end up squeezing them or something every time. Black, grey, and white would be better, and more intuitive, and better for the color-blind. But it would also require more than a few seconds of design work, which is probably more than one can expect from a Harbor Freight vendor.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:30:52 +0000

I dunno what sort of crutches you’re using, but all the crutch tips I’ve seen in the last few years have been pretty soft, probably comparable to what I imagine the red one is like. I suspect the blue one is more like a hard plastic, just not as breakable.

Crutch tips make great tips for wooden walking sticks, too, by the way.

By: Zathrus

Zathrus — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:16:59 +0000

You realize that the three different tips are different densities/hardness, right?

A crutch tip is probably a good substitute for the hard (blue) one though.

By: just joe

just joe — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:08:56 +0000

or you could buy a rubber crutch tip (black or white - white mars less) to stick on the tip of our hammer.
Cheap, and you don’t have to buy three and lose two to just have one.