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B-wildered

10-16-2005 18:36:05




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Picked up a box lot at a garage sale this week. Couple things in the box I have no idea what they are for:

One is clearly the head from a hammer. Made of solid brass from the look of it and very heavy. Mallet style head. Any idea why it is made of brass?

Second is about a foot long. It is clearly in the style of a punch or chisel and has the bushed over end where the hammer would strike it. The business end looks like a phillips screw driver only blunt. It is slightly larger than the largest screwdriver I ever saw. Any ideas what it could be?

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Sonny 2

10-17-2005 15:17:18




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 Re: Garage sale lot in reply to B-wildered, 10-16-2005 18:36:05  
Sounds like a star drill to me. I drilled plenty of holes in concrete for my dad when I was a kid. I guess he thought I needed the practice. Sonny2



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dr.sportster

10-17-2005 12:28:05




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 Re: Garage sale lot in reply to B-wildered, 10-16-2005 18:36:05  
You need a large brass hammer to true Harley-Davidson flywheel assemblies.Every couple years you need to wear off some of the face with a sanding belt because due to striking things it gets hard as steel.I love garage sale hammers.Everyone sells the ball-peen also.Put a new handle on it and use it like a plastic mallet.You will like it.



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deadeye

10-17-2005 11:46:29




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 Re: Garage sale lot in reply to B-wildered, 10-16-2005 18:36:05  
When I was in the military and drove a transport hauling liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen, we used brass hammers all of the time on the transfer hose connections to knock them apart as they would be frozen after transferring liquid. They are non-sparking in case you had a load of RP-1 rocket fuel on board. Strickly a safety factor in the military as liquid oxygen sometimes gets to be like nitro if mixed with hydrocarbons or oil of any form....deadeye

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Davis In SC

10-16-2005 21:12:58




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 Re: Garage sale lot in reply to B-wildered, 10-16-2005 18:36:05  
Hammer might be Copper/Berylllium... Sparkproof, very expensive hammers. I like them, they have a good heft to them...



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Hermit

10-16-2005 19:01:22




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 Re: Garage sale lot in reply to B-wildered, 10-16-2005 18:36:05  
Brass hammers won't spark, and since they're a softer metal, they won't damage harder metals you strike.

The other is a star drill.



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bo

10-16-2005 18:42:08




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 Re: Garage sale lot in reply to B-wildered, 10-16-2005 18:36:05  
masonary drill...hit, turn, hit turn.



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Dannie

10-17-2005 01:26:08




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 Re: Garage sale lot in reply to bo, 10-16-2005 18:42:08  
Brass hammer used alot in my shop.Will not damage steel shafts that need removed.



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