[TheForge] Just watched the Mythbusters try to shatter hammers

[Mike Linn]

Part of the problem is that they were rehardning their hammers using a BBQ 
grill and a pile of charcoal briquets..I dont think they got their hammer 
heads to critical, then they quenched in used motor oil under the guise of 
infusing carbon into the steel to make it harder. They just dropped the 
head into a pan of oil, no swishing or anything. If anything they made the 
heads softer than they were when they started.

Heat them to critical, and water quench them, then all you have to do is 
drop it on the floor to watch it shatter...

mike




At 11:10 PM 11/29/2006, you 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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