Subject: air hammer as...hammer?

From: [email-masked] (Dan Lanciani)
Date: 26 Sep 96 00:49:37 GMT

This may seem like a funny question, but does anybody use an air hammer
tool as a hammer?  I needed a little help driving a ground rod the other
day and I thought I'd try my trusty air hammer, but I didn't have a tip
with a flat head--only chisels and rippers and such.  Checking all my
favorite tool catalogs confirmed a lack of such tips.  Now, it may well
be that the little unit I have wouldn't be much use on the ground rod,
but surely there are smaller driver applications applications where a flat
tip would be useful.  Or am I missing something?

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*

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From: [email-masked] (Phil Crome)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 02:32:26 GMT

[email-masked] (Dan Lanciani) wrote:

>day ...

Hilti and Milwaukee both sell attachments for electric rotary hammers
made specifically to drive ground rods. Check them out.

Phil Crome

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Rayner)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:30:15 GMT

>with a flat head--only chisels and rippers and such.  Checking all my
        ^^^^^^^^^
Mine came with one.  If you have a lathe, make one.  A good steel would 
be 4340.

-- 
Steve. 

******************Knowledge is wasted if it is not shared.*******************

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From: Henry_Bibb <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:20:57 -0400

I get catalogs from an outfit called Autobody Tool Mart which have these 
heads in there - apparently body repairmen use them to work out dents 
sometimes.  These guys are a lot less expensive than Snap-On for some 
things, but you have to use your head, just as you would with Harbor 
Freight, or something.  Some of the stuff is name brand, and priced 
accordingly, and some of it isn't - also priced accordingly. 

That said, for occasional use, I would think the off-brand one of these
would do nicely.

Henry Bibb
Sorry, I don't have the phone number handy, but 1-800 information should
be able to help.

jack yates wrote:
> 
> ...Yep, got one!...One of my air hammers was purchased with a hammer head
> attached, but I don't know who supplied the head...As air hammers are
> primarily used in automotive service, may I suggest you try the Snap-on
> truck?
> 
> Dan Lanciani wrote:
> >

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From: jack yates <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:16:55 -0700