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I've broken many a dead blow, they have little stainless steel balls (the newer ones) steel balls if they are slightly older. If it's really old, then you get some lead. Apparently though, they had issue with the LEAD balls deforming and then sticking together which threw off the feel of the dead blow. At least that's how it was explained to me in the rape wagon.
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Back in the mid-80s I was working my way thorough trade school as a lab (shop) assistant. One of my daily duties was to check out tools to students from the tool crib. We called it “Tools for Fools.” One day we had a new student ask us for a Death Hammer. Talk about laughing you ass off… The old hammers had lead shot in them and when they would fail, they would spread a very fine almost graphite like powder over everything. I think the changeover to steel shot happened in the mid-90s.
In any other hammer I would have expected steel balls (spoiler I’ve had one apart afore) but for snap on pricing I would have thought maybe depleted uranium spheres. Because spheres are more spensive than balls. Least that’s what she told me, but to be fair she did have a 5 o’clock shadow and an Adam’s apple so she was a little suspect.
There is never any good reason to set foot into one of those tool trucks, I always hear folks blabin' about life time warranty and if it ever breaks they will replace it. Tell that to my snap on multi-meter, what a useless piece of fucking shit that thing turned out to be. I keep it around to throw at pigeons and use as a hammer.
Rusty's balls everywhere!!! I certainly like Snap on tools but some times buying a case of princess auto deadblows and putting the rest of the money into the college fund is just the right thing to do.
Steel shot meets the requirements better than lead or tungsten.. lead would just compress and deform and not provide enough solid blow, and the good old Wolfram would do either of two things (or both), besides costing a LOT more: wear out the inside of the head of the hammer or start chipping itself into powder.
Naw, the little orbs bounce around each other. The wolfram would require many thousand smacks at a higher force than a human arm to chip themselves into dust. It's a very hard (yes, not tough) metal and each ball only gets hit by a couple others the same size and velocity. It's a hammer, not a ball mill!
They use deadblow hammers for orthopedic surgeries. When I worked at a hospital, the surgeon got a little over zealous with one and broke it, the sand inside filled the incision on the patient and the surgeon had to spend several hours picking grains of sand out of the patient.
The nice older gentleman over at Essential Craftsman was gifted a wooden dead blow that was made with lead bbs. Uses it for certain blacksmithing tasks.
If it was small, it would be good for forge welding. Soft tappy tap tap, but all the energy gets dampened, so the weld doesn't pop back apart. I might put a small lead head on it, to keep the wood from the really hot bits, without transferring anything to the steel and hooping the weld. If you want to mess with someone, toss a penny into their coal before they do a forge weld, that bastard will never stick together!
The problem is you've concentrated all that poison dirt into one place, so when you put it back in the dirt just be sure to scatter it about again. I'm sure everyone will be happy again.
Harbor freight sells these with a lifetime warranty no questions asked just bring in a piece of the hammer and walk out with a new one. Hammers for life
Timely content. I was cleaning up my trusty dead blow hammer today and noticed it had a sprite warning embedded into the handle, advising that “during use while striking other objects, may result in fracturing and chipping while hammering, which may result in bodily harm.” I understood that to mean, use at your own risk. It’s fine print.
I bet that's the same stuff they use for "sand"blasting these days, at least it looks exactly the same. They do the blasting in a room with a floor made of grating, the used steel shot goes through a magnetic separator that gets rid of all the paint, rust and other schmoo (that's why steel shot is great for the purpose, it's magnetic, the schmoo isn't so it's easy to use a magnet to separate them) and gets reused again and again, more economical and less messy than sand.
As some other people have said you could have just warranted it. I know my Snap-On guy would have handed me a new one. They have warranted chrome sockets that I have taken an air hammer to, to get on a rusted, rounded bolt head.
I just had to buy a new dead blow hammer a couple of months back. Went to grab my old one out of the drawer and it disintegrated into dozens of pieces of plastic shrapnel before my eyes. Looks like yours was getting set to do the same thing. Mine was also about 20 years old, but made of 100% Chinesium.
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Cant remember the brand, but I company I spent the first 8 years of my welding carrier supplied lead filled dead blow hammers. They were all fairly old. I only know they had lead as the one at my work station started leaking a bit. And like any good penny pinching corporation, they never replaced it after the clipboard warrior threw it out!
The very, very first generation of the dead blow mallets actually did use lead shot, and they worked great... until the soft lead pellets beat themselves into a homogeneous, solid lump of lead! Then, they not works so good no mo'! I think they first hit the market in about 1977, and I bought one right out of the starting gate for the princely sum of about $45.00 US.
Lol the bandsaw on its side clamped in a vice is just beautiful! People in the skilled trades are some of the most innovative and creative people out there. Like, why would I go grab a hammer when I’ve got a perfectly good screwdriver in my pocket🙃
'Round about a hundred years ago, I worked in a machine shop/ plastics factory. Every now and then, the boss liked to punish me for my recalcitrant ways and would put me on the night shift. I always took full advantage of the unsupervised time to handle some business that needed handling. To wit, my wallet. One of these aforementioned spells was used in the design and manufacture of dead blow hammers. I took on a dimwitted, but hardworking, compatriot to make a couple of molds and produce as many hammers as we could out of the "scrap" that we "found" in the "garbage". We traded one of the fellows in the crew some of his bird shot for a few hammers, and we got us a regular production going. I think I have one left. All these years later, it still brings a smile to my face. They turned out so nice. Oh, I buy the cheap ones from Horror Fraught when I actually need to use one. Ain't no way I'm taking out a loan to buy a hunk of plastic from the rape wagon.
You could use spent U238 like Warthog mini-gun bullets, but its a matter of cost. Steel is cheaper than Plumbum. Those tiny steel pellets are also used as a medium for a fire door closer coupling in a warehouse. If it ever splits open and spills out pellets on the concrete, you can not stand up or drive a fork lift in the area until you sweep up and pick up with magnets.
Lead won't smoosh together rattling around. Ever fired a shotgun and been amazed at the solid lump of lead flying out the end of the barrel? It will barely smoosh together between an anvil and a 10lb hammer when it's cold. It's a softish metal not playdoh.
@@organicvids Where (when) in the vid did he mention that? I missed it, and only found that idea while reading comments. When he was cutting it, I was surprised the blade was damaged, thinking it would be a mild steel hammer filled with lead shot.
Interestingly enough, the buffer in the back of your AR-15 works exactly like a dead blow hammer to eliminate bolt bounce. H, H1, H2, and h3 have a varying assortment of steel and/or tungsten weights to achieve different effects on bolt carrier velocity characteristics. Maybe the fap off used steel instead of lead so the little balls don't deform, and if they used tungsten or bismuth you might actually get your money's worth
I bought one of those many years ago. It lasted about 8 months. The snap off rep said no warranty so I put it through the side window of the big red robbery bus. The Britool I bought the week after is now coming up on 16 years. Still bangin away and believe me it's slackened many a head or box over the years. Beat the bucket of many a mucky digger slammed home a lot of shafts and then there was that one time it got caught on a nipple. That left a mark!
From what I've heard Snap-On dead blows are covered by the warranty. It's how they justify what they charge. So that rep was full of it. But how you're treated often does depend on the activity of your account.
All of the dead-bow hammers I broke had a canister that was flat on each end (I'm cheep I don't but Snap-on). Do you suppose those Spherical ends contribute to the Hammers performance? I have got tiered of those full plastic dead-blow's (Gone thru to many). Lately I have been using the Wiha ones with their metal construction. They so far are holding up better, but they are expensive as well.
I can only speculate that the domed end of the canister focuses the shot into the same point every time for more consistent swanging. I’m sure whoever snap-on copied the design from could tell us ;)
When I was in college, the machine shop had all Lixie dead blows. I've stuck with them for over 15 years, only had one handle break when I misseded the target of my thrustration. Bought a replaceamont from Lixie and still whackin away today with new wood. Replaceable faces in multiple durometers FTW.
Ave, call in and claim warranty! Someone I know did....Snap On mailed a replacement for free and didn't ask for the old one to be sent back. There may have been more than one offspring of that damaged hammer in our shop...purely speculation of course.
My brother had an AR he built from a cheap parts kit many years ago. Darned thing wouldn't cycle. We decided it must be the buffer. Knocked out a roll pin in the thing and hundreds of little steel balls came tumbling out everywhere. We didn't find them all, so made do with what we could save. Rifle never worked. Still, we got to learn how they try to keep the bolt from bouncing against the barrel extension.
I had the same problem with a carbine, thought it was under gassed. Kept taking weight out, still wouldn't cycle. The darn thing was OVER gassed and I finally got it heavy enough.. It runs beautifully now. (The bolt was slammed back and forward so fast, the cartridge couldn't pop up quick enough)
@@rbnhd1976 That's exactly what was happening with this. It ejected fine but the next cartridge never fed. If he still has that rifle, maybe its worth giving it a try.
@@MyDailyUpload good luck with it man, I remember the buffer that worked had metal discs and cylinders for weights, also seems I used a gi carbine/m4 spring, hey another thought, does it kick "sharply" like? That's what mine did originally, now it hardly kicks at all, anyway peace
@@stevef3685 Ah...that is the new stress-relief handle. It's a feature not a flaw. The handle is designed to conform to your hand. It also prevents toxic masculinity because it keeps from you really hitting the thing as hard as you need to.😁
That's one tool where I well imagine that there's not a single practical difference between a Snap-On and a Harbor Freight one. Or if there is, not worth the difference even for a pro.
the difference is you can keep taking it back for a new one when the plastic starts chipping and they have all the colors. its worth getting the nicer one since you only pay for it once
There is a massive difference. All other brands I've tried including blue point disintegrate in months. The plastic is too brittle. The snap-on's last about ten years, its really amazing what they can take. That's worth $100 bucks easily. Plus I've traded mine out twice. Both times it was because the faces were mangled beyond use. They never split like the cheap ones. Some of their stuff is worth it.
I bought one of these from a truckload tool sale about 20 years ago. When she finally burst open I found steel inside the thin walled spot welded tube, but not the nice little round balls snap-on chose to use. It looked like grinding and machining debris mixed with dirt. I'm pretty sure it was random shit swept up off of a factory floor somewhere. I'm not complaining because it was $6 and I got about 15 years out of it.
I used to make/assemble many of the snap-on hammers at an injection molding company in early 2005. I primarily worked with the ball peen and dead blow hammers back then. At that time, the handles were a fiberglass rod and the heads were a small piece of steel pipe that we loaded with lead shot and pressed caps onto before molding around them.
"Kid,You ever been in a Turkish Bathhouse?"---Leslie Nielsen in Airplane. Do not know if you 'Frost-Backs' get Cornwell Trucks at work sites; have been a life-long Cornwell Tool guy and now have a pile of warranties. He is now harder to find than my Scottish uncle when the Bar Tab comes around!
Precisely. That math checks out. In My 20 years I've gone through 2. They are insanely durable. No questions asked on either. No snide comments either. Just smiles. But then , I always paid my bill.
I was on a job where we had to demolish a room that was lined in lead. I don't know what they were up to in there. You never knew. Anyways that room had to be like three stories tall and it was sheathed with lead covered sheetrock. Let me tell you those sheets were heavy!
Whats really neat is when you're whaling on an 1810 u-joint and the ball pien hammer let's the magic smoke out. Steel shot ringing off everything and everyone in the shop. Had it happen in both hammers and mallets. But atleast they always warranty them.
2:10 what teeth? I once saw in an episode of How It's Made that whichever brand was featured in the episode was using (much coarser) lead shot instead of steel / iron. The plastic was much thinner though, so the Snap-On lasting 20 years wasn't too bad. Spanks for showin' us what Snap-On did 20 years back to make a dead-blow thumb-detector, and for showin' us how much damage it does even after death!
I bought a 'dead blow' at one of those traveling tool sales. Turns out it was a normal hammer with a plastic vial inside with a couple of BBs to make it rattle.
My grandfather told me that very same joke about when I was 12 or so. Man I miss that old crazy bastard. He spoke all the time just like Froghorn Leghorn from looney tones. "Pay attention boy!".
My SnapOff 30 oz. dead blow ball peen split the compothane, so I removed all the stuff. To my surprise, the steel in the handle was maybe 3/8" round stock. I welded a piece of 3/4" pipe over that with a washer to center it, then welded bumps all over it so it had some grip. I bought it new in 1978 and fixed it in 2018. It looks odd but it still works well.
If it was full of lead balls, they would eventually deform and be all smashed together, there for becoming "Non-Dead-blow". Why not tungsten, it costs too much, so not enough profit...
As a hobby machinist the BEST thing i ever got was a solid lead hammer. Cancer aside it is great! You can hit a machined surface as hard as you want with no damage and it will move. I need a mold so i can recast it when it mushrooms too much.
Had one for 27 years before diving to death the same way. Made by a local company that made silencer tubes for screw machines. Niether the screw machines, hammer or company exist. Still finding those $#*&@! balls in in odd places 3 years after the autopsy.
