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Do any of you know what this hammers used for? Its a bit heavy and the large end is of a hard rubber. I bought it at a flea market and am curious as to what it was originally made for.
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trying to i.d. this hammer!!!
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It looks a lot like a flooring gun mallet. Used to strike the pneumatic gun to drive the nail when laying real wood flooring. The rubber end has been badly abused! Check out this
That is a pic of a new one by Bostitch!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270939707264#ht_707wt_1344
That is a pic of a new one by Bostitch!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270939707264#ht_707wt_1344
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Looks like some sort of body hammer to me, like those conical white plastic hammers. Either way, it will be a good noggin knocker!
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It looks a lot like a flooring gun mallet. Used to strike the pneumatic gun to drive the nail when laying real wood flooring. The rubber end has been badly abused! Check out this
That is a pic of a new one by Bostitch!
not the right url will try later to get it too post but that is what the hammer is!
OK I will try this again the url I had locked into my paste was one from something I was pasted to show someone else something this morning. It looks like this too me.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0C2RCKYFSR3VGM5JAD02
Click on the pic on the far right. The mallet is too strike the flooring nailer. You are supposed to use the rubber end but believe me by the end of the day of swinging that thing all day or in a tight area too tight to get a good swing you will rotate it around there and pop the nailer with the metal end for the added assist in making the nailer cycle!!!!!!! I have used them till at the end of the day you will swear your arm will fall off!
It is used to strike that floor nailer and it takes a good lick to hit it and make it cycle and nail down the real wood flooring.
Check out this video this a tire hammer for 18 wheeler's he is using!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl9LN6iJe4Q
That is a pic of a new one by Bostitch!
not the right url will try later to get it too post but that is what the hammer is!
OK I will try this again the url I had locked into my paste was one from something I was pasted to show someone else something this morning. It looks like this too me.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0C2RCKYFSR3VGM5JAD02
Click on the pic on the far right. The mallet is too strike the flooring nailer. You are supposed to use the rubber end but believe me by the end of the day of swinging that thing all day or in a tight area too tight to get a good swing you will rotate it around there and pop the nailer with the metal end for the added assist in making the nailer cycle!!!!!!! I have used them till at the end of the day you will swear your arm will fall off!
It is used to strike that floor nailer and it takes a good lick to hit it and make it cycle and nail down the real wood flooring.
Check out this video this a tire hammer for 18 wheeler's he is using!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl9LN6iJe4Q
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Yup, a tire hammer for sure. Those were used in the days before all the hi-tech changers available today. I have used one many times. Glad those days are over.
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Awesome thank you all for your quick replies. That's way off from what I thought it was. I thought it was the furniture hammer and the skinny end was for hitting little finishing nails or something. I'm sure I'll get a lot of good use out of it no matter what the original intended purpose was. Thank you all again...