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  • Just so you know, (and don't try it yourself), I tried to sell a do-it-yourself gas mileage improvement/dimple kit a year ago on Minneapolis craigslist, auto section. $50 for a ball-peen hammer.

    Can A Car's Gas Mileage Be Improved By Adding Golf Ball Dimples? 2009

  • They looked over Greg's head, toward the footsteps out in the hall, thwacking away like little ball-peen hammers.

    Grand Heads for America: A Fable of Exceptionalism Steve Anderson 2011

  • Then, with the ball-peen still in hand, he stepped up to the Formula, and with one smack he cracked the back corner of the intake manifold all the way through.

    Least Resistance 2009

  • Just so you know, (and don't try it yourself), I tried to sell a do-it-yourself gas mileage improvement/dimple kit a year ago on Minneapolis craigslist, auto section. $50 for a ball-peen hammer.

    Can A Car's Gas Mileage Be Improved By Adding Golf Ball Dimples? » E-Mail 2009

  • There was a loud metallic ping that seemed to come from all around, as if the sea were a giant metal bowl rapped with a ball-peen hammer.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • He picked up a ball-peen hammer, leaned on the passenger-side fender, and tapped twice on the EGR valve.

    Least Resistance 2009

  • There was a loud metallic ping that seemed to come from all around, as if the sea were a giant metal bowl rapped with a ball-peen hammer.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • His Hoover is more to be censured than pitied, an obsessive-compulsive creep with the vocal rhythms of a ball-peen hammer and a gimlet-eyed gift for blackmail.

    'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Here was a ball-peen hammer, metal head and wooden handle actually crafted by the old man.

    The Love Tap MaryAnne Kolton 2011

  • No, this car is all about self-presentation, about the code, the metaphor, the ball-peen mentality of Camaro.

    A Genuine Ragtop Road Monster, Leaks and All Dan Neil 2011

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