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Article: Hammers.(Hand Tools)
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- Hardware Retailing
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Most common home-use hammers are nail, rip, finishing, ball peen, tack, hand drilling, sledge and soft face. Quality features include:
* Forged steel heads for strength and durability.
* Heat-treated heads for strength, toughness and wear resistance--should be heat-treated differently on face (striking area), at eye (where handle is inserted) and on claws.
* Finish-ground face with a crowned surface that is canted slightly toward the handle to center handle blows.
* The American National Standards Institute recommends that the chamfer or bevel on the striking face be approximately 10 percent of the diameter of the poll to reduce ...