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Blacksmith and Metal Working Forum => Blacksmith and Metalworking Forum => Topic started by: Papaw on November 15, 2012, 08:10:36 PM

Title: Neat, but why?
Post by: Papaw on November 15, 2012, 08:10:36 PM

Today I bought a home made hammer. An Alltrade ratchet was cannibalized to make this hammer. Looks like a section of Aluminum round stock was cut and glued into the head of the ratchet.

Title: Re: Neat, but why?
Post by: mikeswrenches on November 15, 2012, 08:28:20 PM

Kind of looks like the maker may have needed a hammer more than he needed a ratchet...or maybe the ratchet was scrap and he decided to repurpose it.

Mike

Title: Re: Neat, but why?
Post by: rusty on November 15, 2012, 09:09:35 PM

So he had something to hammer on his other ratchet with?

I suppose it is as good a use for a dead ratchet as any, particularly if the teeth in the handle are shot and there is no way to rebuild it.

Alumnium seems a strange choice tho, the handle has to weigh 10 times what the faces weigh, I think I would have made a brass one...

Title: Re: Neat, but why?
Post by: john k on November 15, 2012, 10:42:35 PM

A design excercize?   Innovative though, dont' think we'll see another.

Title: Re: Neat, but why?
Post by: johnsironsanctuary on November 16, 2012, 10:46:28 AM

I'd use it like a blacksmith's tool. Hold it over something you don't want to damage while you are caressing it with Papaw's 2 lb Heller. Saves on finger damage if your aim isn't perfect.