Found this on the side of the road behind my local BiMart.. thought it was kinda pog no cap fr fr .. Figured it would make a nice hammer if I milled a new face on it and turned a chamfer around it, gave it a new handle. I'm thinking its early 1950s maybe
I also found an old carpenters brace at a garage sale but I'm not sure its worth giving a shot
Anyone have any cool vintage tool restoration plans/projects?
Aren't those inserts?
After googling a little, looks like they are. Not sure I'd want another rawhide face tho, thinking about a nylon slug
Do the nylon. I've several split style hammers and use UHMW cutoffs left over from my machinistbro. Also keep an eye out for lead (easy to make a mold from scrap pipe sawn lengthwise then wired or hoseclamped together) and of course the holy grail, copper or brass.
Have some hammer info:
https://hammersource.com/
Lead is the way to go when you need a soft hammer. Lead is really easy to come by as well. Hit up a job site when they are replacing water mains. If they are pulling out cast iron pipe there's a very high chance the service lines are lead. Melt it down and pour it into your hammer with a retaining ring to get enough face that you won't hit with steel. Then when it's too mangled to use properly, simply recast it.
I like the ring idea and can make one from scrap.
Looks like it'll be a pain to replace it with nylon.
You could drill and tap the head in the center for a socket head screw which would be well below the head surface, then plug the hole over the screw (which you wisely Loctited).
> Anyone have any cool vintage tool restoration plans/projects?
I just bought a really old hand-driven Singer sewing machine online to restore. Never done it before but looking online it seems very doable. There was little info and the seller couldn’t read the serial, so I may get lucky and end up with a rare one to sell, or otherwise I’ll just use it to learn sewing
I think rawhide faces are pretty neat and better for panel work (afaik what they were intended for). But having a nylon/umhw face hammer is useful too I guess
That copper face got a hot supper and then some.
nice, a completely fricked machinists hammer. you can change the inserts if you know what you are doing but i kind of like the aged and well-worn look.... only this is useless ofr it;s original purpose now.
>thor
fr fr no cap, ima post this on reddit for dem marvelBlack person upboats n be bussin till the cows come home, dead ass on god.