Thor are still in business in Birmingham, U.K. They do a full range of soft faced hammers. I have a no.1 exactly like yours and a no.3 double copper. They’re excellent products and used worldwide.
A corrugated cardboard company I worked for used that rawhide type of hammer to hit in cutting blades into the plywood cutting dies, hitting it in from the sharp side of the cutting blade.
i have the same thor hammer but vintage, both ends are copper. it is a nice tiny hammer that has quite a bit of momentum to it. need to restore it . got it for $5 at the local flea. were used initially to open and lock in knock off nuts
The main thing is the peak impulse generated, this is dependent on the hardness of the face. So stiff plastic gives a sharper blow than rubber, rawhide somewhere in between. It’s a compromise between getting a good shock into the thing you’re hitting, and not distorting it. Rawhide is also somewhat “deader” and bounces less than plastic or rubber.
Thor are still in business in Birmingham, U.K. They do a full range of soft faced hammers. I have a no.1 exactly like yours and a no.3 double copper. They’re excellent products and used worldwide.
A corrugated cardboard company I worked for used that rawhide type of hammer to hit in cutting blades into the plywood cutting dies, hitting it in from the sharp side of the cutting blade.
They are still in business. They do a massive range of soft strike hammers, Mallets and ect…
how can you remove the copper faces
they are pressed in, so I would try putting in vice and levering, or drilling a hole and putting in a bolt or screw and pulling out
i have the same thor hammer but vintage, both ends are copper. it is a nice tiny hammer that has quite a bit of momentum to it. need to restore it . got it for $5 at the local flea. were used initially to open and lock in knock off nuts
Hi, thanks for an interesting share. I'm wondering how different the raw-hide ones are from plastic/rubber dead blow hammers. Cheers.
The main thing is the peak impulse generated, this is dependent on the hardness of the face. So stiff plastic gives a sharper blow than rubber, rawhide somewhere in between. It’s a compromise between getting a good shock into the thing you’re hitting, and not distorting it. Rawhide is also somewhat “deader” and bounces less than plastic or rubber.
Face appears to be copper on last hammer
yes copper -> 4:21
Thanks for video. Info is very useful!!!
Its a model “A” its smaller than the model “1”