Was working on the shed, and the Hammer head gave way. I found the store where I originally bough it and bought a new handle. Modified it to fit and put it on. Now the hammer can do its job again

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The part that goes inside the hammer has a slot in it when you get it.

You shove the hammer head down as far as you can onto the handle so that the base of the head rests on the part of the handle. You might have to widen the slot a tad depending on your handle and the hammer head to get it all the way down. Some of the slot part usually sticks up over the top of the hammer head at this point.

Saw off the excess so that it's flush with the top, and then you take the two small metal wedges that come with the handle and hammer them into the top of the handle, perpendicular to the hammer head, spaced evenly in the handle material.

Then it is customary to wild out and smack the shit out of things to test it.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    This is worse than scissors packaged with zip ties. You need a hammer to assemble your hammer

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well, you need a hammer to perform a repair on a broken hammer. And you need a drill to get the old hammer that's jammed in the head out. And a saw to get rid of the excess on top. A band saw is best, and also my preferred method of taking material from the slot if needed.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    It seems the workshop is a circular list of dependencies and the product is mostly the persistence of the workshop.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    No. The workshop has a list of dependencies, if you don't want to just throw stuff away when something has a very simple break like a hammer handle.

    I pulled a sledge hammer head out of a dumpster because someone didn't want to replace the handle. I did want to and did so, over 15 years ago, been using that sledge ever since.

    Everyone's free to replace a broken tool and move on, but if you have a workshop in the first place you're probably the kind of person that likes fixing stuff. I think the disposability of modern urban developed societies is a crime.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well you don't need another hammer just a rock or hard surface. You can then smash them in by holding it upside down

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