Olowkow says:
Remember, there are only 4 forces in nature that anyone knows of, and three of them are pretty much ruled out for bending spoons. If you describe exactly what happened, I'm sure lots of us would give an honest shot at explaining it for you.
I was doing construction, soffit and fascia, it was a small house but it had many corners, entry way was typical and small. It the ceiling in the entry way was the last thing I had to do, Ceiling was 5x4 feet very small I was using vinyl solid non-vented.
It’s inserted into a J channel that’s made of aluminum very thin material and delicate, but its shape makes it fairly strong.
It was a very hot day and I wanted to get out of there early a normal size house might have took me a couple of hours longer so I planed on having some fun that day.
The pieces were ten inches wide the vinyl piece had to be cut down to 4 inches or so long ways to fit the last opening, and a piece had to be inserted into the J to hold it in and keep it looking right when viewed from below.
They lock together pretty good and all are also nailed to the trusses or dead wood that you have to nail up but the last one since cut slides in and locks to the one before and the clips or clip you put into the J channel to hold the cut end of the ceiling material also helps to lock it in since you can’t really nail that one down.
I’ll take a picture of the ceiling here so that will give you a better visual idea of what I am talking about.
The 3rd picture is the way it looks from below tight to the J channel, the 1st pic is where I am pointing to the beginning of the last full un-cut piece, the 2nd pic is the last grove and the place it locks onto the 2nd to the last piece and the tool I am using the J channel is being pried open the last piece is only about two inches wide and had to be ripped down it’s whole length to lock and fit into the J channel.
Above that piece is something that holds it to the J tightly and helps lock it in, but you can still pull it out for repairs and no nails are used on this last piece.
Now see what I am doing with a gutter spike?
You do the same with a screw driver as you insert this last piece of vinyl, you slide the driver from one end to the other as you push this last piece in, you give it a separation to be able to get it’s flat cut edge in the J channel. As it locks in to the piece that was mounted before that one.
Well it would not go in and lock on that house and I got frustrated and I tried and tried I seemed to get more frustrated, the piece I was working with was short in length and usually it pops in easily, there’s a locking sound so you know.
The pieces in the photo are 16 inches wide but look the same.
I actually ruined that last piece of J channel and had to replace it once as I slide the driver up and down it’s length, so after I replaced it I tried again, it still wouldn’t go in and I spent about a half hour on that last little piece, so I was getting more frustrated.
What happened as I moved the driver it’s hardened steel shank started to act like rubber and looked more like a liquid as I pried down, I looked at it closely as it happened it was almost bent to a 70 degree angel, by vinyl and aluminum, it got so extreme I dropped it and was shocked I said, Damn really loud in frustration, because the piece wasn’t locked in yet and I would have to climb down off the ladder now to retrieve my driver.
It was about then the drywall guy who was about 250 pounds came over and asked what happened, I told him my driver fell and now was bent, he never realized what had happened, but he did retrieve it for me and bent it back by stepping on one end of it and pulling upward on the other end to help me out, he took some of the bend out but couldn’t make it totally straight as in it’s original condition.
I used it one more time and the piece went in.
It all happened so fast I couldn’t tell him fast enough to not bend it back even though he did fix it to work for my purposes it’s original shape would never come back, it was useless as a driver at that point and I could only use it for prying now.
It was a good driver and on many occasions I used it as a chisel with no problem.
Just to knock of tips of trusses that stuck further down against the sub fascia.
It was never affected by using a hammer on it at all; it was one of my best.
If I misplaced my chisel would be the only time I used it that way.
Cheaper drivers the handles would break and explode so it wasn’t a habit to use them this way but this one was immune to that.
The interaction of those two materials on that driver are too flimsy to bend hardened steel, even if it could hold it so I could bend it I know that I would destroy the J channel first as before, or the panel, what I seen was, it turned to a rubber like material that resembled metal reminded my of mercury but a little more stiff.
