Why do people use planishing hammers for general work? (1 Viewer)

Steve and Denise

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A claw typically is used for pulling out nail. A ball pein hammer can be used over a leather sandbag to stretch metal to make, for instance, a rounded shap, or for riveting. There's also cross peins, diagonal peins etc.
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Thank you for that Burgo next time I want to shrink or stretch a bit of tin I will remember that. ? ?
It is nice that sometimes a MHF member can shed some light on subjects they they know about ?
 

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Go look on the Moto Guzzi V11 motorcycle forum on v11lemans.com
It is almost mandatory to include a hammer in any workshop photo.

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When doing my engineering apprenticeship many moons ago, we had to live by the mantra....
"The bigger the hammer, the better the fitter". So it's a lump hammer for me for everything!

Terry
 

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I have a few Hammers but could do with a new one for that new job your doing ;)
Did have a chap come in one day, take one of my planishing hammers down & start to beat a 3mm stainless bracket straight of all places on my surface plate!!! Not saying I lost the plot but he's never come back ;)
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Before anyone points out the brick hammer its modified for a job, the short handle ball bottom right was my dads & its the hammer of choice it will never be the same when it has to have a new stick ?

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Tears ago I was on shutdown repair s in an oil refinery & the senior foreman asked a temporary fitter for his hammer. You could have heard a pin drop when he passed over a claw hammer.o_O

Twisting it back & fore in his hand he said "that ,my old mate , is what a carpenter uses & if I ever see you with it in your tool bag again you will be escorted off the refinery":LOL:
 

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I have a few Hammers but could do with a new one for that new job your doing ;)
Did have a chap come in one day, take one of my planishing hammers down & start to beat a 3mm stainless bracket straight of all places on my surface plate!!! Not saying I lost the plot but he's never come back ;)
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Before anyone points out the brick hammer its modified for a job, the short handle ball bottom right was my dads & its the hammer of choice it will never be the same when it has to have a new stick ?

You've got one important one missing in your collection.........where's your Repousse hammer? ?
 
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Well that`s our 13th year & still loving it.
I used a cold chisel backwards to drift that bloody motor bearing off.... Even the cold chisel didn't harm the hammer heads.
Just got to grind an edge back on the chisel now.

Here is a suggestion to make things easier next time, knock the outer cage off the inner bearing race, with an manual arc welder run a bead of weld around the inner track face, voila the bearing will fall off the shaft.

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Having worked in transport for a number of years 'hit it with a hammer' was often the remedy used to get the thing going. Never asked what type it was always the biggest you lay your hands on

the motto in the garage I worked in was
When in doubt give it a clout (y)
 
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Oh OK. I can't see myself ever needing one of these.

I have five hammers. I've got a big one for smashing stuff. A wooden one. A plastic one for awning pegs. A little one for little nails and a bigger one for bigger nails. That last one has a claw thing for when I need to remove nails that I've bent through over-exuberant hammering.

I doubt that qualifies me to join your Hammer Club as I don't hang them up on a wall. Unless I am doing some nails, they sit in a cobwebbed toolbox slowly rusting. I'm more of a screwdriver man, meself.
 
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A hundred and seventy sheets for some hammers and doyleys? Jeez, I mean, I know that for every job there is a tool, but that's a lot of money just to fill a few spaces in your hammer display?
They look exactly the same as the Kennedy ones which are abit cheaper than £170. And the boys that use these hammers properly, it's their mainset of tools. The hammer to a metal shaper is the trowel to a bricky.


Also £170 is cheap stuff.

The SNAP-ON set is double that, and the Hazet set is about 6x that.....
 

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Since 1964 Gosh that makes me feel old.
Having worked in transport for a number of years 'hit it with a hammer' was often the remedy used to get the thing going. Never asked what type it was always the biggest you lay your hands on
& if that doesn't work, get an even bigger hammer.

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I've also got a rubber one for bashing steak into escalopes. Does that count?

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