These video titels are an artform in itself. How can they always have at least two meanings, without even stretching the words or coming up with something far-fetched. Whatever the name of the unknown master who taught you kung-fu on your many travels through distant lands, he also did a great job teaching you the power of the word!
Mine either 🙄 Whereas my mother loves ' that Lovely Australian man" (she is i bit deaf TBF) 🤣. She even used the phrase ' keep your willy in a clamp' 🤔 Hey she's 82 👍 she mixes metaphors 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
@@nelsonbrum8496 it’s incredibly easy to do this in post. Literally below the video file there’s an audio track on divinci resolve 17 (it’s even free) and it allows you to turn down the volume on any portion of the video. It also shows which parts of the video are the loudest, and allows you to set max volume points so essentially it’s done automatically.
@@GashimahironChl you can't take for granted electroboom's shenanigans are planned. He's genuinely come within inches of his own death at least once and posted it for our viewing pleasure.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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.😁
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.
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.
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
You led me to Apetor years ago and I thank you for it. Spirit animal. Can’t quite remember how I found you, but no matter… just don’t stop the life vidjeos. Thanks.
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.
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
'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.
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.
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🙃
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!
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.
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.
"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!
* Music * What do you do with a broken hammer? What do you do with a broken hammer? What do you do with a broken hammer? You make a BOLTR viJe-yooooooo!
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 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.
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.
Of all my Snap-On tools, only the dead-blow was disappointing. Mine started leaking balls after a couple of months, and no I wasn't abusing it, it still looks quite new sitting mostly unused in my tool collection for the last couple decades. Why not get it replaced? The guy who sold it to me had a heart attack, and by the time Snap-On had a new guy take his route, I had changed jobs and my new shop had tons of dead-blows already, one at every work station.
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.
Snapon has warrantied all of mine. The orange plastic/rubber/polymer tended to disintegrate over time. The newer red ones just get chewed up, but they replace them when they do.
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.
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!".
@@weaksignal8009 For me, I bought mostly snappy because when I started buying our choices were tool truck or Sears. Sears was junk IMO. I never had a MAC or Matco guy that lasted. So if you wanted a warranted tool you buy off a truck.
@@interpinto same situation for me. When I stopped working at a shop I started buying FACOM But their quality took a dive when they were bought by Stanley 🙄
@@youmakeitreal It’s great we have so many choices when it comes to buying tools now, but we forget how hard it was pre-internet. Stores were far away if you’re rural. Young guys probably have no memory of it at all.
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!
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...
The newer smaller snap-on dead blow hammers with different tips such non sparking brass, steel tip, and rubber/plastic tips are fantastic and affordable for what they have to offer.
Local Snap-off dealer has a sign on the first step of his vehicle, "If you proceed beyond this point, it is consensual".
so does mine!
My local van has lettering on the back that reads: "your wife called, she says its ok"
Seen that sign on a few of them
Mine too
These video titels are an artform in itself. How can they always have at least two meanings, without even stretching the words or coming up with something far-fetched. Whatever the name of the unknown master who taught you kung-fu on your many travels through distant lands, he also did a great job teaching you the power of the word!
@Timbo Dewabem
wouldn't that be Laurent‽
I’m Ron, Burgundy?
🤣🤣👍
Laurent of Kanakastan you infidels
@Timbo Dewabem 🤣👍
Those balls are all of our souls that Snap-on collects from any of us that have been 'gifted' shirts, hats, gloves etc for a small $5k.
Pocket screwdriver; and if you spend $80k, you get a flat AND a Phillips 👍.
Longtime coworker commenting on the Snap On dealer supplying donuts every Thursday morning: "Tools are free but donuts are $400 a month".
@@paulolson734 wait, their driver brought food? I want a refund!
@@Dr_Skot Yeah, my dealer never brought donuts. I got gypped.
I have not one but 2, that is two Mac Tools Jackets. You don't want to know.
[crunchy sounds]
“Crunchy!”
My wife doesn’t understand why I love this channel
mine does :)
[Applause]
Mine either 🙄
Whereas my mother loves ' that Lovely Australian man" (she is i bit deaf TBF) 🤣. She even used the phrase ' keep your willy in a clamp' 🤔
Hey she's 82 👍 she mixes metaphors 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Dirt-Diggler makes them, even better. Sounds like your ma, is a keeper.
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.
The oldest one had lead bird shot inside. You could shake it and hear it shot moving.
Formed lead still blows dead.
Bet mancies just cried cuz lead.
@@danielgeorgianni1687 Yeah, plus lead is known by the great state of Cancer to cause California, as our guest puts it.
But a great big chunk of lead isn't the same as bunch of tiny shots with the same weight.
This was my first thought, that lead would probably deform and cause problems.
I seriously appreciate you turning the audio down when running noisy equipment. Most other channels like to blow my eardrums out with that stuff
Yeah his sound management is so good compared to many youtubers in this workshop niche.
@@MichaelOfRohan This is definitely edited in post.
@@802Garage
Agreed. 100%.
Even if it isn't evident in this particular video, it is very much so in quite a few other vidjas.
Nah, that's just the microphone cringing and leveling down automatically.
@@nelsonbrum8496 it’s incredibly easy to do this in post. Literally below the video file there’s an audio track on divinci resolve 17 (it’s even free) and it allows you to turn down the volume on any portion of the video. It also shows which parts of the video are the loudest, and allows you to set max volume points so essentially it’s done automatically.
Ahhhhhh. There’s nothing more satisfying than the moment you realized that you’ve hopelessly bound up your bandsaw blade. Good times👌
Hint, Ave was about to replace that blade and murdered it for our amusement...... or maybe he didn't, this is the magic of Ave.
@@rashton5730 This is uncle bumblefuck's turf, not electrobrows, we're never sure if it was planned or not around here!
I've found that if you bind something up in your bandsaw blade, then a quick tap from a dead-blow hammer... oh... dammit.
@@GashimahironChl you can't take for granted electroboom's shenanigans are planned. He's genuinely come within inches of his own death at least once and posted it for our viewing pleasure.
My shop has so many of these lying around, busted open, that I wish I could see the outside for a change.
Same here, if you have never seen the insides of your dead blow hammer,you're not working it hard enough.
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.
Spheres are the balls of a sophisticated gentleman's dead blow.
*That's another 'Mister', Mister!*
@@joshk.6246 Spheres have balls, but do balls have spheres‽
Nah, not spheres, some kinda magic dodecahedron unobtanium. I like Snap on but think they are a little too proud of their tools.
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.
That saw blade reminds me of my studded winter tires when I was a youngster.
Those balls are the last mortal remains of all the lost 10mm sockets….
And 5mm hex keys
The souls of all the 10mm lost sockets.
No one believes me but I ACTUALLY have 3 10mm sockets in my workshop…..
@@timfromammoniteknives4212 all made in taiwan? My three are, all 1/4 drive too
@@timfromammoniteknives4212 Same here. Somewhere, at least. I'm fucked if I can find them though.
"The abrasive section of the blade"
the way you formulate shit will always get me laughing XD
He should have said "Now were getting into the abrasive portion of the saw blade's life." but we all know thats what he meant.
@@eagle94haslanded this isn’t a documentary channel
He almost got to the polishing section of the blade, but he gave up early.
@@michaelh.1262 It isnt?
@@eagle94haslanded I think it might be
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.
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.
I thought they were going to be lead balls too. They must have changed to steel to protect the wee babies.
Hey snap on !
If I want the scrumptious snack hiding in my dead blow you better deliver!
Just waiting for the 'SPROING' of a busted bandsaw blade :)
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.
antimonal chilled shot is hard. it gets hit at 10k pissys and squeezed through a choke and the less it deforms the better the bird killin
Dig your name!
@@Iceberg86300 thanks!
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!
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!
@@JayFude as some one whos tried to forge.. thats evil man.
You let out all the poison dirt, that you cant have in the dirt, even thought we dug it out of the dirt!
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.
@@hyperboloidofonesheet1036 Yup... some dilution is required.
@@hyperboloidofonesheet1036 Actually, that's probably mostly true.
If in you're talking about lead, lead doesn't naturally occur as lead. In dirt, lead is a sulfide called galena and is a whole lot less toxic.
@@rallywagon261 Imagine these folks not having all the info but still spouting off as if they did.
The flat head maraca is just the right tool to get that stuck part to dance. - Harry Belafonte
Bandsaw blade was looking awfully British by the end of that cut
I was surprised it cut through as as it did, and it didn't snap when he was removing it.
it had a stiff upper lip?
Missing teeth, or rather, shockingly had a few teeth left.
Summer teeth. Some 'er here, some 'er there.
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.
Rusty Patina was my stage name during my dancing years.
Looks like the healing table is about to bring that tool back to life.
I want to see that franken tool come to life again. An Undead Blow as it were
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.
I've busted 3 of the snap on hammers so far, disregard the fact that I was hammering on the hammer with another hammer.
I've only broken one- while at home building a retaining wall (they work really well btw) , luckily Snappy still warranties these.
Anything's a hammer if you're willing to break it
@@trevor5379 and every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough!
@@revmpandora , or if you fix it hard enough.
@@revmpandora and any zoo is a petting zoo if you're not a coward
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.
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
Never thought I'd get to witness the teardown of a hammer. Truly, a first.
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 do believe a shot full of bird shot would improve the whacking, or the blowing depending on the application.
Improvement implies praxis, we all know whacking is the only thing getting reps.
Wouldn’t the lead all smush up after and become less deadblowey over time?
@@rockstarcharters that would depend. If mixed in with the steel, it should remain loose, but with just lead it would ball up inside
Great idea, trying to repurpose the broken hammer by cutting the top off. It would have worked great for half-nails.
Ahh, I was looking for a hammer for to use those D shaped nails
a hammer for those 16d clipped head Sencos
Dead blow hammers are filled with unicorn droppings. Be careful, Elbonians claim the droppings are also an aphrodisiac.
I’m still looking for one of those German voice activated cameras from the Ufok company.
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.
It's all fun games until the deadblow hammer breaks open in a clean room.
When I cut mine open it was filled with buyers remorse tears.
I literally died - you dead blowed me.
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.
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!
Paying that Snap On price for balls of steel. Fitting since it’s takes balls of that sort to ask the price to begin with.
“I’ve got balls of steel.” - Duke
Technology News from the Future: Dateline 2138 - Engineers report "encouraging progress" towards development of autofocus that isn't absolute crap.
One end has dead in it and the other end is filled with blow
I'm gonna half to cut open the blow side of mine. Could use some today.
Don't Blow Dead Inside
And the handle doubles as a straw...
I could hear those little balls getting into the kerf behind that saw blade. Made me smile 😁
For the price, I would expect platinum plated tungsten. Or maybe depleted uranium.
That joke is so old my pet dinosaur laughed!!!!
What happens in the truck stays in the truck until, the bill shows up!
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.
My big matco bent too. Marine techs can destroy anything.
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.
Two questions.
Q1: Can you not warranty that?
Q2: What other plastic hammer will last longer than two decades?
It absolutely is covered by warranty. Or was lol. If he's got a good dealer it might still be
@@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.😁
"were into the abrasive portion of the sawblade now" im dying. almost spit pizza across the room
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.
A hammer isn't everything, BUT EVERYTHING is a hammer!!
With all the video titles like "What is inside this dead xyz..." on youtube, my first reaction was "What is a blow hammer, and why is it dead?" xD
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.
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
He's not allowed a AR15😂😂
@@sjowners AvE has a couple of powder actuated tools that work very fast, not an AR per se but close enough
You led me to Apetor years ago and I thank you for it. Spirit animal. Can’t quite remember how I found you, but no matter… just don’t stop the life vidjeos.
Thanks.
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.
Wait let me guess how you know that . . .
My Pittsburgh was filled with apple cores and Chinese newspapers
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
@@rbnhd1976 Try making a tube fed .22lr go full chatter.
Wasted a significant portion of my 20s on that.
That sir, was a a quality joke
Aannnndddd the next BOLTR is a Dewalt portable band saw.
'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.
Wonder if lead would smoosh together over time with lots of hits and be less effective as it congeals into one big blob that wouldn’t move very well?
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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.
i'd say it may change shape over time, but its still rolling around loose, so changing shape equally in any direction after every hit
@@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.
Powdered lead is where its at, smells nice and tastes even better! 🤣
I once bought a dead blow hammer from harbor freight. Is said “made in Chian” on the sticker. Yes. Chian. Not sure where that is, but it still works.
I’m still waiting for AVE to apply all of this knowledge in the form of his own brand of “Skookum Tools”
skookum is inuit for unprofitable
The Abrasive Section of the saw blade 🤣 Dude you consistently make my day!
There’s an easy trick to finishing a cut with a dull blade, Push Harder!😁
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🙃
I'm amazed how heavy lead is, i know it's dense but you don't realize how much until to try & pickup a 5gallon pail of used tire balancing weights.
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!
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 ;)
i think its to redirect the energy to the flat end of the cylinder instead of just one small area.
Yep, domed end gets it every time.
I buy cheap and buy lots on dead blows, harbor frieght gets the job done on the percussive devices.
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.
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.
I seen me a shagin wagon that said on the second step “ after this step is consensual”
I like the abrasive portion of the blade! It adds up the labor hours, cause no one want's to spend $40 on another one. 👍
"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!
Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?
Don't know if they get Cornwell Trucks up there in the North, but they sure as hell ain't got no Cornholio president.
They all pull that. Our Snap-On guy pulls the same crap. We order a small tool then dump the warranty box on him when he comes out.
@@SerbanCMusca-ut8ny He had 42 percent of his L-frontal lobe removed; an International Bankers wet dream.
@@DCBpower Thank you, will adopt your strategy!
* Music *
What do you do with a broken hammer?
What do you do with a broken hammer?
What do you do with a broken hammer?
You make a BOLTR viJe-yooooooo!
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.
that's pretty much what a dead blow is
@@joemilton7552 A dead blow to my brain when I realized what I had bought. It is a pretty decent plastic mallet for what I paid though,
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.
Beautiful... you're just like me.
You didn’t have to buy another strap-on dead blow, warranty it. Have done it about 4 time in my 41 years as a automotive tech.
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.
Of all my Snap-On tools, only the dead-blow was disappointing. Mine started leaking balls after a couple of months, and no I wasn't abusing it, it still looks quite new sitting mostly unused in my tool collection for the last couple decades. Why not get it replaced? The guy who sold it to me had a heart attack, and by the time Snap-On had a new guy take his route, I had changed jobs and my new shop had tons of dead-blows already, one at every work station.
That blades got summer teeth
I saw my uncle Skip go after a mean Cow w one of those hammers back in 1995.... he lost the fight.
Sure! He only had one leg. That’s why his name was Skip.
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.
I bought a cheap dead blow hammer, the bastard thing was still alive its squirming caused me to smash my thumb
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 saw a review a while back, the Horror Fright one actually did better.
Snapon has warrantied all of mine. The orange plastic/rubber/polymer tended to disintegrate over time. The newer red ones just get chewed up, but they replace them when they do.
Every computane hammer I got from snap on eventually failed due to material failures. Fortunately, they always replaced them!
They should you paid for 15 hammers at snap-off's price.
Lixie deadblows are my go-to. Were standard in my tool & die shop... replacement ends and all. Give em a try.
When you modify your blade for polishing i'm taking notes.
I never bought snap on for the quality, always bought snap on to get out of the shop for an hour.
It's got a lifetime replacement warranty, unless you cut it apart on the UA-cams... LOL!!!
Judging by the comments in here the warranty is variable. They may replace it and they may not.
Once those doors close, it’s between you and your bank balance! Rotten four wheeled tool bookies!
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.
I believe McMaster-Carr has the molds.
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!".
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I broke mine about 10 years ago. I got it warranted, but barely. The dealer was pissed to have to replace it.
Interesting... mine wasn't, and he usually was. He finally retired.
Why do you guys buy Fap-off?? Overpriced and when it breaks, they tell you to pound sand.
@@weaksignal8009 For me, I bought mostly snappy because when I started buying our choices were tool truck or Sears. Sears was junk IMO. I never had a MAC or Matco guy that lasted. So if you wanted a warranted tool you buy off a truck.
@@interpinto same situation for me. When I stopped working at a shop I started buying FACOM But their quality took a dive when they were bought by Stanley 🙄
@@youmakeitreal It’s great we have so many choices when it comes to buying tools now, but we forget how hard it was pre-internet. Stores were far away if you’re rural. Young guys probably have no memory of it at all.
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!
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...
tungsten being hard also means its brittle, so used as impact weights, you'll end up getting tungsten dust instead of tungsten balls.
The newer smaller snap-on dead blow hammers with different tips such non sparking brass, steel tip, and rubber/plastic tips are fantastic and affordable for what they have to offer.
Hey you paid for the whole blade so you'd better use the whole blade!
S T O P already !!!!!!!!!!!!