Broke my favorite chain whip last Tuesday and honestly it was kind of my fault

I was trying to get a stuck lockring off a fixed gear hub (a Phil Wood, if you're curious) and I got impatient. Instead of grabbing a breaker bar like a sane person, I just kept leaning harder on the chain whip until the handle snapped right off at the weld. I know everyone says to use the proper tool for the job, but I figured with 15 years of experience I could muscle it. Turns out I was wrong (obviously). I ended up having to drill the lockring out, which took like 2 hours and ruined a perfectly good hub shell. Has anyone else ever had a tool fail in a dumb way like that?

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