[TheForge] Just watched the Mythbusters try to shatter hammers

[debmiller at fuse.net]

Did they perform repeated blows or were they just trying to strike hard enough to chip or crack one?

I would assert that repeated blows is the key.

Ray
Cincinnati

---- Justin Fisher <justinf at pixelations.com> wrote: 
> 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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