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    Totally BUTT-UGLY dead-blow hammer hack

    So, I got an old BluePoint dead-blow hammer at a garage sale for $2, which I thought was a killer deal.

    I took it home and cleaned it up and hung it over my bench with my other daily-user hammers.
    (yes, I have a rack right OVER my main bench area with hammers - up to a 2 lb cross-peen, which scares my friends)

    One day a week or so later I was really pounding with it and the head shattered!
    Well, the polyurethane broke off of the metal core.

    Grumble... grumble . . then . . . a thought!

    I broke the rest of the head off and welded on a mild steel chunk on one end and a disk on the other end.
    On the disk end I super-glued on some 1/8" clay-filled rubber I've had kicking around for 20 years or so.

    The handle was a bit broken so I wrapped part of it with twine and super-glued the crap out of it.
    Well, that handle worked for a bout 6 months before it began to disintegrate. Sigh...

    I cut off the entire plastic handle stuff off and replaced it with a piece of 3/4" EMT that I flattened and welded that to the head and wrapped it with that old black tar-covered cloth tape (what is that stuff called?!) to give it GRIP.

    Here it is!
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    I use this more than any other hammer, well, except my Warrington pattern hammer that is so nice and small and pointy.

    I really do not care that it looks like my first welding project from junior high school - IT WORKS!

    Here's what the garage-sale hammer looked like (from an online ad for a used hammer).
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    Cheers!

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    Last edited by CharlesWaugh; Dec 13, 2020 at 09:17 PM.
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    Thanks CharlesWaugh! We've added your Dead Blow Hammer Modification to our Hammers category,
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