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Classic Auto and Motorcycle Tools => Classic Auto and Motorcycle Tools => Topic started by: oldgoaly on November 12, 2020, 06:07:57 PM

Title: FHT tire hammer?
Post by: oldgoaly on November 12, 2020, 06:07:57 PM

marked FHT, never heard of them?To me it looks like a tire hammer with a rubber end to beat a tire when mounting it.

Title: Re: FHT tire hammer?
Post by: amecks on November 13, 2020, 08:14:39 PM

Freight Harbor Tools??? No? (Sorry).  I did find a site with a FHT hammer for sale, Jim Bode Tools. Maybe he knows something about HFT?
https://www.jimbodetools.com/collections/jim-bodes-value-guide-to-antique-tools/products/unusual-two-pound-patented-iron-copper-and-wood-hammer-90276 (https://www.jimbodetools.com/collections/jim-bodes-value-guide-to-antique-tools/products/unusual-two-pound-patented-iron-copper-and-wood-hammer-90276)
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0978/7942/products/90276_1900x.jpg?v=1576117191)

Title: Re: FHT tire hammer?
Post by: oldgoaly on November 13, 2020, 09:56:16 PM

I saw that copper end hammer, I was hoping some one had an old ad or seen it in a catalog. I believe it's a tire hammer it came from a small garage that mounted tires  among everything else.

Title: Re: FHT tire hammer?
Post by: goodfellow on January 15, 2022, 03:35:33 PM

I think it's a sheet metal bumping hammer. I'll have to check my body hammers, but IIRC the FHT brand was a budget import line that was sold through many outlets. Mine was ordered from JC Whitney as part of a set back in the late 70s.

Confirmed -- the hammer is part of a body panel set that was sold by JCW back in the day.