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Hammer is a tool intended to deliver an impact to an object. The most common uses are for driving nails, fitting parts, forging metal and flouting up objects.
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Hammer is a tool intended to deliver an impact to an object. The most common uses are for driving nails, fitting parts, forging metal and flouting up objects. • Hammersare often intended for a specific purpose, and vary widely in their shape and structure. • The usual features are a handle and a head, with most of the weight in the head. • The basic design is hand-operated, but there are also many instinctively operated models for heavier uses, such as steam hammers.
The hammer may be the oldest tool for which definite evidence exists. • The hammer is a basic tool of many professions. By analogy, the name hammer has also been used for devices e.g. in the caplock mechanism of firearms. Types: 1.Claw Hammer: • The most popular hammer for common work, available with a wooden, glass-fibre or steel handle; with or without rubber grip.
The most popular weights are 455-680g (16 to 24oz). The claw is generally curved, and slot in a 'V' cut-out to draw nails from timber. • The claw can be used to lever up floorboards or where other places where a lever is required; care must be taken as the force applied can easily weaken the joint between the handle and the head.
2.Ball Pein: • Normally used by engineer's, the pein in this case, is rounded and is frequently used for shaping metal and closing rivets. • Ball pein hammers are available from 55 - 1100 (4 oz up to 2 lb.), 110 - 165g (8oz 12oz) are the most suitable for general use. Handles are usually wood, generally Ash or Hickory.
3.Club Hammer: • Sometimes called a Lump Hammer- it has a double faced head, and is valuable for light demolition work, driving steel chisels and stonework nails. • As debris is likely to fly, the wearing of safety glasses and working gloves is recommended. • Weight 1135g (2 1/2 lb) being best suitable to domestic work. • Handles are normally wood, usually Hickory, or synthetic resin.
4.Special Hammers: • These include a Brick Hammer for striking a bolster or splitting bricks; Woodcarving Mallet, with rounded body; Veneer Hammer, for pressing and tapping veneers into place; Upholsterer's hammer for driving tacks and nails in partial spaces, and Sprig Hammer, used by picture frame makers.
5.Power Hammers: • More often referred to as 'powered nailers', these take the hard work out of fitting nails, staples etc. • They are ideal where a large number of nails need to be fitted, such as fixing ground. They variety from light duty to heavy duty nailers, used to fix floorboards and garden decking etc. • Here in Tracknfieldgear.com, you will get all kind of track and field equipmentslike Shotput, Hurdles, Discus, Starting Blocks, and lot more.
