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Mallets
Drive chisels and strike work without damaging its surface. To avoid marring, choose a mallet with faces that are softer than your workpiece. Lighter weight mallets are good for tapping work into place and driving a chisel to make small cuts. Use heavier weight mallets when assembling joints, dislodging stuck parts, and making aggressive cuts with a chisel. Longer mallets allow for more powerful swings.
Rawhide faces are more durable than plastic and won't distort the surface of soft sheet metal, such as brass, aluminum, and copper.
Brass faces are suitable for striking steel, iron, stone, and other hard surfaces.
Hickory handles resist vibration. Steel and aluminum handles are stronger than hickory handles but have less vibration resistance.
Mallets cannot be sold to the listed areas due to import regulations.
| Head Wt. | Face Dia. | Overall Lg. | Grip Style | Handle Replaceable | Cannot Be Sold To | Each | ||
Rawhide Head with Hickory Handle | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | 4 oz. | 1 1/4" | 9 1/4" | Plain | Replaceable | Canada | 0000000 | 000000 |
| Head Wt. | Face Dia. | Overall Lg. | Grip Style | Handle Replaceable | Each | ||
Aluminum Handle | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | 4 oz. | 3/4" | 5 1/2" | Smooth | Nonreplaceable | 000000 | 000000 |
Replaceable-Face Mallets
Replace faces when they become worn rather than replacing the entire tool. These mallets are suitable for driving chisels and striking work without damaging its surface. Choose a mallet with a face that's softer than your workpiece to avoid marring it when tapping or striking. Lighter weight mallets are good for tapping work into place and driving a chisel to make small cuts. Use heavier weight mallets when assembling joints, dislodging stuck parts, and making aggressive cuts with a chisel. Longer mallets allow for more powerful swings.
Mallets with two face materials can be used for a wider range of applications than other mallets.
Rubber and plastic faces are softer than metal faces, so they're good for striking plastic, wood, and sheet metal. All have a face hardness rating for comparing their hardness with other rubber and plastic faces. Extra-hard faces have a hardness similar to that of a hard hat.
Brass faces are harder than copper and suitable for striking steel, iron, stone, and other hard surfaces.
Acetal plastic handles are lightweight.
Ball Peen Hammers
Use the domed end of the head for forming soft metal, rounding off edges, and closing rivets. The flat striking face is for driving nails, pins, punches, and chisels. For replacement handles, see Hickory Hammer Handles and Fiberglass Hammer Handles.
Hickory and beech handles resist vibration. Steel handles are stronger than wooden handles but have less vibration resistance. Fiberglass handles combine the strength of steel with the vibration resistance of wood.
Textured and ribbed grips provide slip resistance.
Nonsparking Ball Peen Hammers
The face and head are made of aluminum-bronze that is Factory Mutual approved, so these tools inhibit sparking, resist corrosion, and are nonmagnetic. They satisfy OSHA requirements that specify nonsparking tools for locations where flammable vapors and combustible residues are present. Use the domed end of the head for forming soft metal, rounding off edges, and closing rivets. The flat striking face is for driving nails, pins, punches, and chisels. All have a textured grip for slip resistance. For replacement handles, see Fiberglass Hammer Handles.
Warning: Do not use these tools in direct contact with acetylene.
| Head Wt., oz. | Face Dia. | Overall Lg. | Face Material | Handle Replaceable | Specifications Met | Each | |
Fiberglass Handle with Textured Grip | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3/4" | 9 3/4" | Aluminum-Bronze | Replaceable | FM Approved | 0000000 | 000000 |
Tack Hammers
Also known as upholstery and pin hammers, these tools have a small head for driving tacks and pins in confined areas.
Hammers with a magnetic head hold metal pins in position, so a free hand is not needed to steady the pin before striking it.
Rectangular Face | ||||||||||
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| Head Wt., oz. | Round Face Dia. | Lg. | Wd. | Overall Lg. | Face Material | Handle Material | Grip Style | Features | Each | |
Round × Rectangular Face | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1/4" | 1/2" | 1/2" | 11" | Steel | Hickory | Plain | Magnetic Head | 000000 | 000000 |