[TheForge] Just watched the Mythbusters try to shatter hammers

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

On thinking about it.
Talking Tommie Nachel has a couple of pieces of hammer head so 
far in his abdomen they won't take them out.
A couple of our CBA members have had serious injuries from 
struck/striking tool's flying fragments, one was from an 
undressed, mushroomed striking face.
And around '85 there was mourning at CBA for a smith folks knew 
who had a hammer chip pierce his body and cut a deep internal artery.
At this point, I draw some temper out of the butts of the stamps 
, punches, chisels and drifts before they go into service.
Also use partly softened hammer faces for this sort of 
duty...they are safer and seem to "stick" better on impact.
Way too many carefully wrought chasing punches have gone flying 
across the shop and were lost as it is. There are dozens i'd love 
to have back.
Funny...pulled a coat out of the closet for the chillier 
weather...reached in the pocket and found Iron-In-The-Hat 
tickets.....pf

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Mythbusters got this one wrong.
> 
> I've seen it happen a couple times in person. I went to Jr. and high 
> school with a clown who shall go unnamed but was famous for the stupid 
> things he did on a regular basis. Jr. high metal shop 1, right after 
> reading the chapter, taking the safety test and watching the Primitive 
> Pete movie warning (among other things) about the hazards of banging 
> hammers together, dingle berry made a point of whacking two ball pein 
> hammers together. Face to face, not pein to pein. About the fourth whack 
> and a chip popped with a loud crack.
> 
> Nobody hurt and numb butt was 86'd. I've seen other hammers chip but 
> that was the most definitive, predictable, blatant. . . (not sure what 
> term I want)
> 
> I don't know about new hammers but old ones sure will chip and I won't 
> take a chance on any of them.
> 
> Frosty
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> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
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> From: "Justin Fisher" <justinf at pixelations.com>
> 
> 
>> Mostly they were using claw hammers, set up in a rig to smack two 
>> hammers face-to-face.  They even tried hardening the hammers, and at 
>> the end they aimed a hammer at Chinese Anvil-Shaped Object.  No 
>> shattering, not even any chipping.
>>
>> They concluded that hammers don't shatter, even if abused.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>>
>> --Justin Fisher,
>> generally avoiding hitting my hammers with other hammers.
>> > 
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