[TheForge] Just watched the Mythbusters try to shatter hammers

[Tod Estes]

Quite a few years back I had an old Maul that flaked off a nice chip when I hit
its butt end with a sledge, Put a decent sized hole right above my knee. Lucky
to just get into the meat.
Quoting Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>:

> 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
> > -------------------------------
> > If it ain't forged
> > it ain't real.
> > Wrought iron is.
> > The FrostWorks
> >
> > Meadow Lakes, AK.
> >
> > http://www.artmetalradio.com/
> >
> > 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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Tod Estes

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