Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:23:13 +0100
Reply-To: Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
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From: Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Subject: Club Hammers
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Any toolshop, about £4-00 if made in China, about £10 if Made in Britain!
They vary from 1.5 to 2.5 lbs, but traditonally are 2lb and have a handle
less than a foot long.
Perhaps they're called blockhead hammers or something equally descriptive
over there.
.... club, thump, lump hammer - for clubbing things with quite hard without
requiring a backswing.
.. irrestible force meets an immoveable object - what gives?
Clive
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben McCafferty" <ben@kbmc.net>
To: "Clive Smith" <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Sure. . . Summary: Re: How hard is it to remove exhaust?
> Where does one find such a beast? I've often wished for just such a
thing.
> bmc :)
> "Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel...."
>
>
> > From: Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
> > Reply-To: Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 22:06:49 +0100
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Sure. . . Summary: Re: How hard is it to remove exhaust?
> >
> > ---- Original Message -----
> > From: "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: Sure. . . Summary: Re: How hard is it to remove exhaust?
> >
> >
> >> In a message dated 9/9/02 11:33:39 PM, claudiocella@SHAW.CA writes:
> >>
> >> << In regards to using a hammer and a chisel - the hammer and chisel
> > method
> >>
> >> would be used parallel with the stud (at least as close as possible to
> > this
> >>
> >> position given the amount of room), therefore hitting the nut on it's
top
> >>
> >> surface with the cylinder head acting as a support. >>
> >>
> >> Given enough room? Dear God, I would like to meet the man who can
> > accelerate
> >> a hammer, any hammer, enough to cut that nut in the short distance
which
> > is
> >> available.
> >>
> >> George
> >
> > Thats is why a club hammer (as Brits call them, not a sledge which is a
long
> > handled thing carrying from 8 to 16 lb head) is an indispensible part of
a
> > mechanics tool kit.
> > A 2 lb club, swung or dropped over as little as 6" can give quite a
> > substantial blow to a chisel, and if that chisel is angled & positioned
> > perfectly then even better. Recently constrained awkwardly under the
front
> > of my Syncro, not jacked up, I had drilled out the heads of some seized
10mm
> > self tappers and managed to finish the job with a pathetically weak
swing of
> > a 2lb club and an electricains chisel - taking the heads clean off at
the
> > first swing.
> >
> > Aside...
> > I see even builders 'lads' over here all the time hammering away at
bolster
> > chisels with a 12 or 16oz claw hammer, risking serious harm to their
hand
> > holding the chisel and getting absolutely nowhere, having to swing the
> > damned thing through a enormous arc to get any force into the target -
> > typical in a country that has all but dispensed with apprenticeships and
> > proper training for any trade.
> >
> > Clive
> > '88 Syncro Transporter
> >
>
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