RDSBandit Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I have some pictures of a couple of cross pein hammers I have in my shop. I'm just wondering if they are too chipped to be repaired? I tried sanding on them a little bit to clean them up to make the damage more visable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I think that with the amount of chipping on the edges that there may be cracks all around. I think they could be salvaged for top tools by annealing and sawing off the first half inch below the deepest chip. That is what I would do. I bought a bunch of ball peens a long while back and did that with a couple of big ones which were chipped. There may be a better solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Those are pretty questionable in my book, they're probably been used on something really hard long enough to work harden and begin cracking. I doubt you want to spend the money to have them magnafluxed and that's to start. If you grind them past the failures and anneal them they'd make good striking hammers for top tools and such. I wouldn't put them to use for "normal" work. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Olson Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Eseemann posted an article about a hammer that chipped and took a kids eye. Search for "lost eye" . Good reading and gets technical. After I read that you should probably just throw them out rather then trust a repair. Ebay has hammers cheap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1forgeur Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 I have a piece of a hammer in my hand........from around 1968 or so. Doctors left it in there. I would go with what Frosty says or junk em. IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Don't throw them out! Scrap art if nothing else or cutting them at the eye and making two bottom swages from them---the damaged areas can be forged into the hardy stem and the excess trimmed way back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Olson Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Scap art yes. I dont do that so i didnt think of that. My bad. Waste not want not. Recycle re-use repurpose :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House of D Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Mr. Bandit, Just last weekend someone gave me a large aluminum bronze sledge that was badly chipped and cracked. I chucked it up in the lathe and turned out all the chips and cracks that were propagating and finished it out nice like a 5lb ball pein sledge. I re-handled it Saturday along with an 8 pound sledge someone gave me. I put short handles on them for driving drifts and not tearing up my forging hammers. They turned out well, and I don't fear using them. It depends on your resources and what you are going to do with them. I certainly would not use them as is. Chips and cracks need to be removed for safety and for not marring your work. D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McPherson Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 A wise man once said that when you are buying used hammers, you are buying an eye with two potential faces. If the eye is serviceable without too much effort, you can take the time you want to reshape the faces anyway you want. You are going to have to cut the handle off to do much anyway. There was an article in the "Hammers Blow" years ago about all the things that you could do with a used hammer, and I will bet that there is something on the FABA how-to archive site. My suggestions: tomahawk blanks, diagonal peen forging hammers, dead soft chisel & drift drivers, weld a face on for a flatter, profile for fullers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDSBandit Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 On 1/14/2016 at 5:08 AM, John McPherson said: My suggestions: tomahawk blanks, diagonal peen forging hammers, dead soft chisel & drift drivers, weld a face on for a flatter, profile for fullers. Just curious how would diagonal pein work. Is it possible to heat up the cross pein and then just turn it 45 degrees? Can you do that without messing up the eye? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Do you have straight peen and cross peen hammers? Look at how you hold your hands to use them. Many people find it's easier to use a diagonal peen hammer for certain tasks. I have seen a double flat face converted into a diagonal peen hammer in just a couple of minutes using a hydraulic press 2 bites as I recall. Twisting a cross peen diagonal will be a lot harder as the part you need to twist is the heaviest part of the stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDSBandit Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 11 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Do you have straight peen and cross peen hammers? Look at how you hold your hands to use them. Many people find it's easier to use a diagonal peen hammer for certain tasks. Aye, that's why I was thinking I might like to convert one of them to a diagonal pein. (The pein on both hammers look to be in good shape, from what my very limited experience tells me). I'm just not real sure how to go about doing it. And no, no straight or cross pein. Well.... I have a cross pein sledge... but that doesn't seem real useabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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