I saw a bunch of cheap crappy hammers online and I just had to buy them. They came from China and only cost me about 22 dollars for the whole batch of them.
The handles were absolutely awful and were chewed up in some places, completely brittle and ready to break, the grain orientation of the handles were horizontal facing instead of vertical and I already broke one when I was holding them all in my arms and one fell on section of rail I had sitting out. They were that fragile.
Now, I bought these things knowing they were going to be bad. I fully knew they were going to be trash hammers and the sole reason why I bought them were to modify the heads of these hammers into new tools that would take up too much time, energy, fuel, and material to make.
I might actually keep one of these hammer heads to just use as a hammer in general. They are very nicely finished despite anything else.
These hammer heads will be forged into tools meant to be struck by a hammer to put cuts, indentations, holes, etc into the hot steel I am working with.
Now, making the tools will be easy, but I have a 50/50 chance of it all not going well and these dumb things being a waste of money.
The one thing that will make or break these hammer heads is if the seller was honest when saying these were "Forged High Carbon Steel" and not just cast iron. I don't see sort of signs of these being made from closed die forging machines, those usually show a bunch of flashing that is ground off. The texture of these seem to be what you'd see on sand casting.
There is a horribly real chance of these things being a form of cast iron. Cast iron cannot at all be forged under the hammer, it has too much carbon in it. Trying to forge cast iron at any heat will just end with a mess and the thing crumbling apart.
Cast steel can be forged, how ever and I'd be fine with that.
The handles were absolutely awful and were chewed up in some places, completely brittle and ready to break, the grain orientation of the handles were horizontal facing instead of vertical and I already broke one when I was holding them all in my arms and one fell on section of rail I had sitting out. They were that fragile.
Now, I bought these things knowing they were going to be bad. I fully knew they were going to be trash hammers and the sole reason why I bought them were to modify the heads of these hammers into new tools that would take up too much time, energy, fuel, and material to make.
I might actually keep one of these hammer heads to just use as a hammer in general. They are very nicely finished despite anything else.
These hammer heads will be forged into tools meant to be struck by a hammer to put cuts, indentations, holes, etc into the hot steel I am working with.
Now, making the tools will be easy, but I have a 50/50 chance of it all not going well and these dumb things being a waste of money.
The one thing that will make or break these hammer heads is if the seller was honest when saying these were "Forged High Carbon Steel" and not just cast iron. I don't see sort of signs of these being made from closed die forging machines, those usually show a bunch of flashing that is ground off. The texture of these seem to be what you'd see on sand casting.
There is a horribly real chance of these things being a form of cast iron. Cast iron cannot at all be forged under the hammer, it has too much carbon in it. Trying to forge cast iron at any heat will just end with a mess and the thing crumbling apart.
Cast steel can be forged, how ever and I'd be fine with that.
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Yes, but that doesn't help much. You'd be amazed by how nicely polished cast iron can be. Like, it can be REALLY nice. The spark test proved to be some sort of carbon content in it, but that isn't always a really reliable source of testing even though it can help determine things. Cast iron is a steel with a VERY high carbon content in it.
well here's to hoping they're some useful form of cast steel! Maybe a drill test to see what the chips look like, chip vs spiral.
I am not going to drill into these, because a hole drilled in is not un-doable. I did a file test on these and it is very soft stuff. The file loves to bit in and cut away material.
So, now I'm thinking they don't even have a proper temper from the factory
So, now I'm thinking they don't even have a proper temper from the factory
proper temper spec is slightly harder than the handle? Had a friend with a favorite titanium hammer that was worn off center from many years of use. Went to true it up with a HSS end mill and it took the edge right off the mill. Ended up fetching a carbide and going a lot slower on the cut. Had to trim about 3/32 from the face to square it all up.
Yeah, no. Fuck titanium. I hate the idea of such a material used for tools like hammers and crap like that. Seems absolutely stupid. That crap work hardens horribly too.
Where did you buy them from? Like what website?
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