Making a Solid Copper Sledge Hammer - HAMMER TIME! 

Can't tell them crackheads shit

Still could

@nig a Apparently it’s completely legal to, “unless the objective is fraudulent or with the intent of selling the raw materials of the coins for profit”

You can not destroy currency in many countries or use them for other purposes rather than exchange of goods or services.

@nig a There are machines in the U.S. that will literally squish a penny into a souvenir.

I have ingots

It really does. I was about to content the same thing

Such a unique color and is stunning!

Yess

how did he polished it so clean?

Cool, we did that in 7th grade.

​@@TCK-9I was getting 🐈 while you were in class like a yay boy.

​@TCK-9 you were a power bottom for the special ed teacher in 7th grade.

Excellent!

What a wonderful piece of history. Thank you for sharing

My doctor was talking about this. The metal shrinks with the -190 degrees and then expands. So cool.

Sometimes I look at my homie's hammer and think myself, "wow, that's gorgeous".

@@SurfyStories I mean, that I can understand

We must be Dwarves of past lives!!!!! pass me my hammer apprentice!

Ohh my gosh after I read your comment I thought the same thing lol what has my life gotten to lol

Never heard of Peter Gabriel?

or dust it with talc cardboard is easier.

I love simple solutions.

Soo, this is one of the best uses for a comment section I've ever seen

Soak it in water too.... we do this at my shop

thx catherine obvious im sure he knows this hack.

RU-vid comments need to more like yours.

also after a some use it will lose its shape and might ultimately slip off the handel due to the fact that copper is a soft metal. you can not really use it like you could use steel. robinson you dropped the ball.

@@gregorysuto1865 In his defense, he said it won't actually be used

I agree 100%, it does look pretty rad !!! ... but, yeah, we haft hammers with tapered cores, gives more surface area to grip the wood ... or the hourglass shape, both are better than straight-through ... for hammers used for _real_ work ...

Perfectly said my guy!! I was about to say the same thing!

Ya but this isn’t the Ron episode so don’t let your ego go to your head.

@@tommyguns9008 Fuck off Tummy runs... who rattled your cage!

@@tommyguns9008 How exactly is there an ego did he say and I was accepted into the Queens Royal sword making guild no just I brought back memories of being an apprentice know words before saying them.

@@tommyguns9008 There's no ego on display you git lmao

@@tommyguns9008 good one bozo

Except it won't last very long....... Perfect to look at maybe.

Am I the only person that saw the seam? An interference press-fit (rather than slip-fit and flaring) would have eliminated that.

I was expecting his plug to have bubbles too xD

Its literally just copper ..this is the equivalent to going back in time you knuckle dragger

Only way to make it better is with gold or silver filled engravings

Or by mixing it with zinc in a 14:7 ratio

Bro just shut up

What if it was pure brass, or pure silver? Would that be too modern for you? Also, is that a picture of Matt Dillahunty from The Atheist Experience?

Very cool

Sounds like a great job. Where would one go to look for such a job?

@@Nick-cp8wf Wolff industries Spartanburg SC

Yeah, i always see people changing that. I prefer a tapered hole, with the larger end on the side you put the wedge in on, just to lock it down a little bit more.

@@atomicwinter31 if i'm imagining this right, i'm seeing a sharp edge at the bottom end of the taper, that could bite into the wood over many hits and wiggle things loose

When making a hammer, you generally don't make it out of copper for display only. Do you get the point?

@@yourdad9168 I think it's maybe you who doesn't get the point

@@spambot7110 You're just imagining things. Lol. But nah, the taper isn't drastic enough to have that effect. Just enough to allow the wedge to spread the handle enough to keep it in without relying solely on pressure against the walls.

He probably preheated the copper

High power machine. I have a 300 amp tig I use on copper. Preheat helps a bit sometimes. Old school way is use helium as a shielding gas instead of argon as helium boosts the power.

polish it

@@ButBigger42 plus heli-arc just looks cool as hell.

Preheat and dump as many amps as you have available. The heat loss is almost identical to aluminum except no pesky oxide layer.

You’re not alone, mate

Yep - mine sits dormant for much of the time. Need a simpler life I think!

Green-with-envy sarcasm offers nothing and promotes unhappiness.

@@halffullftw Not all of us were being sarcastic.

@@halffullftwI’m sooooo sorry you think that way!!

Fantastic!

Yeah until day two when it starts the oxidize and turns into a green turd

It's very easy to prevent that with carnauba wax or with a clear varnish

I think brass is prettier.. and looks like gold.. I have brass revolvers replicas from the 1850s+ and often when I wear them loaded. People think they are gold plated lol. As for tarnish.. tarnish can be easily cleaned up with a polish compound.

Yeah copper does look pretty good

COPPA

Definitely something you'll never forget and pretty cool skill set. One that literally almost nobody knows what goes into making something so "simple". Machining was one of the exploratory shops I took in tech school and we had to turn out a ball peen hammer as one of the graded projects in the few weeks that we had. Needless to say mine was pretty crude but I loved that damn hammer lol

@@nickbisson8243 last year, my junior year of highschool, I made a very nice amalgamation of a brass faced hammer for machining and a slag pick for stick welding (I prefer tig so I normally only use the slag pick at home) but I turned a steel head and handle, knurled the handle and machined flats, then brazed the brass face on the hammer, then drilled a hole in the head, made an interference fit then welded the top of the handle to the top of the head, I haven't gone back to school yet to really test the machinist hammer part, but the slag chisel works nicely, the machinist hammer side will probably get a real beating during the next robotics season though when making parts. Since I don't really know what to make in shop class, I make tools, they're a fun test of my skills, they're free bc school materials lol, and I can make something that will last a long time and I really enjoy that.

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Bingo! 😎

I have no practical experience of foundry work, other than the little I gleaned from my father who was a foundry worker, but I was going to suggest that casting the hammer head vertically, would likely solve this issue.

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@@jesuslovesyou2616 sorry im not a cultist

I also use two copper hammers my father made over 20 years ago. I actually prefer the copper hammers over traditional.

Thanks. I would have never guessed that they would be durable. I'm happily corrected.

Awwwww thank you for sharing this beautiful memory with us. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Condolences and prayers for you and yours. My God cover you with peace and strength as you grieve and mourn.

Is there a place you have pictures of his work? I love copper

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My Dad was a machinist also could not help but think about him when I watched this Thanks 👍

Indeed; it's the camerawork on this that netted you another subscriber.

hopefully see him in the upper room aye john.

Looks like shit.

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Well said. I think it's highly underrated.

Copper is the most beautiful metal, ever created. Highly polished, it has a depth that gold lacks.

yes there is....it's illegal in 42 states, 13 provinces and 19 additional countries! It's true... I read it on the internet!

@@coresnap it's a concealed carry law. If it's strapped to your back outside your long trench coat you're good to go, cause it would look boss. You're basically forced to adopt a Thor-like attitude about life...with a copper sledge.

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Imagine it being the same youtuber too xD. "Left my copper hammer out to rust for 20 years and brought it in to restore it"

Patina not rust

@@thekickingwolf5115patina is still not copper oxide, but you are right, rust is strictly iron oxide.

Yes. It's the best metal.

I agree.

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Cooling the plug for an interference fit is a great idea! Be careful about using heat around holes such as this hammer.The metal can expand TOWARD the hole, actually making it smaller.

I work for a plastic injection molding company. I work on the molds. We have 3" round 12" long bar stock. And we use those to beat the molds shut. It doesn't hurt the hard steel.

lest HE become its next target

Its too soft to use. Shouldve been bronze or brass.

@@ethancntower8850 depends on the use of what he plans on ever using it for.

@@ethancntower8850 you can buy smaller copper hammers for soft blow use

Here in Canada we don't even have pennies anymore, their use as currency was discontinued because they're so worthless now due to inflation. When paying for something with cash everybody rounds to the nearest 5 cents.

​@@devilsoffspring5519 I wish that was a thing here in the states. But noooo.

@@Dewey_the_25U Doing away with pennies you mean? I thought they already did that but I haven't been to the States in years.

I wish my high school had this. we have a manufacturing class which is really fortunate and an auto shop and 3d printing and modeling but a forging or casting class would be amazing

Junior high had metal working courses!?!? Even the high schools around me don’t have that! I wish!

@@Crohan_31 my high school had wood working metal automotive and so on. was very cool.

@@werewolf74 that’s awesome my highschool had those as well but man a metallurgy course would’ve been awesome or lampworking

Ikr! Copper has such a mesmerizing color to it for some reason. Goes really well with other metals like bismuth too.

Copper sledge hammers are a real thing, used because copper is soft for special applications for no damage to item being hit and also no spark applications for certain industries where gases etc may be present. I used to work in a factory that made copper sledgehammers.

@@damiensmith4558 especially for inserting hot tool steel insert, preventing to crackin

@@damiensmith4558 brass too same concept no spark

We used them in the oilfield on rig sites

@@damiensmith4558 Would you happen to know why they wouldn't just use normal steel heads with copper faces then? A giant copper block is just asking to be bent and I can't imagine the cost difference.

Citation needed

@@jb76489 If the eye is straight, the handle is only held in place by the outward pressure from the wedge. By adding the hourglass shape and more aggressive wedging, the end of the handle is physically wider than the waist of the eye and needs to be compressed even further for the head to slip off.

@@Thunder-54321 I read the comments to see if anyone else had an issue with the eye's shape. I was under the impression that a long tapered shape would be the most secure way to affix the head. An hourglass shape would require a taper on the shaft to fill the lower part of the hourglass opening, wouldn't it?

I always thought the whole thing was then soaked in water, then dried to allow the wood to expand.

If you take a good look at a few points in the video you can see that the core mold is tapered properly for a hammer eye. The resulting casting will have a hammer eye that is larger at the top than the bottom.

Good point! I never thought of that. But I guess that makes it the middle child between a rubber mallet and a steel sledge!

It is beautiful work but shouldn't a hammer be forged?

@@twatmunro ☝️

@@twatmunro I made a cast brass mallet 30 years ago in the foundry at my college. Weighs about 5 pounds with the steel handle. I’ve wailed on it and abused it severely and it’s just a little mushroomed on one end. Casting is fine.

I use a copper hammer almost daily working on old cars and bikes, always something that needs to be encouraged without damaging it

One additional observation-with the heavy mass in the center of that hammer you might have been advised to add a top riser to feed it, rather than the two side risers.The center mass will be the last part of the hammer to solidify and it needs to be fed up until final solidification. See page 7 in this .PDF file: site.iugaza.edu.ps/sabdelall/files/2010/02/Ch10.pdf

Gunsmith here - we us brass/copper hammers and punches a lot to remove very small, tightly fitted parts, especially in restoration work. Knocking a retaining pin out of an antique rifle is a delicate process, and steel would destroy the object.

Besides we have. There's far better ways for casting. Just that for single use casting sand is literally the cheapest you can get. Because nothing is cheaper than sand.