Any workshop can not even be imagined without a hammer. Thanks to this unpretentious tool, a significant proportion of construction, plumbing or carpentry work is performed. The correct type of hammer means further organized work.
Every home master faces daily the problem of hammering nails or breaking things while mounting or locksmithing.
One of the oldest tools, using which you can do this work, is a hammer. In the arsenal of the home master there are several types of hammers, which are designed for certain types of work.
How to pick up a hammer yourself, and by what criteria is it necessary to make a choice of a tool?
Hammer construction
Structurally, the hammer has a shock part and a handle. The impact part of the hammer is a monolithic massive mass of durable metal or alloy. For the design of the impact part of the hammer, a non-deformable metal is used. For the convenience of working movements and amplitude range, the impactor of the hammer is mounted on the handle. The hammer handle is made of wood, metal or strong plastic.
The handle of the hammer in most models has an oval cross section, the length of the handle can reach 350 mm. For the manufacture of handles use wood of beech, oak, maple or birch. Handles of hammers are not made of wood with a readily piercing structure, such as pine, axle and spruce. When using wooden handles, it is possible to slip the shock part.
This problem is caused by the drying up of wood with the passage of time. Therefore, you need to know some rules on how to properly plant a hammer. Modern models of hammers are equipped with plastic or metal handles, in which the problem of placing the head on the handle is absent.
For various types of work using special hammers, which differ in the shape and size of the shock part and handle. Therefore, before the choice of the tool, it is necessary to solve the problem of the hammer's utility in the farm. A well-founded solution will solve the problem of how to choose a hammer.
Purpose and types of hammers
For various types of work use hammers of special shape and size. There are the following types of hammers according to their purpose:
• construction
• Locksmith's
• Joinery
• carpentry
• Shoe
• mallet
• "the bald".
construction
The construction hammer is designed to prepare the working base for subsequent finishing. There are plaster hammer, cam and buchard. The construction of the plaster hammer on one end has a 25x25 mm boot, and in the impact part a curved, spiked fork with slits. The curved horns of the construction hammer allow deftly pulling out nails.
A plaster hammer is mounted on a handle up to 300 mm long. The weight of the plaster hammer is considerable and reaches up to 480 gr. Therefore, thanks to a long handle and a massive shock part with a hammer of this type, plaster nails can be hammered in two strokes.
The construction hammer cam is a hammer with wide guns and a light weight of up to 1.5 kg. The cam is mainly used for applying mechanical shocks to a chisel, a gear and a trojan.
Buchards are hammers weighing up to 2 kg. On the end faces of the shock part, pyramidal teeth are applied. The number of denticles can reach 36 pcs. In some obsolete models, instead of denticles, cutting from straight pointed blades is possible. When processing the working surface with bushards, there are traces of denticles or stripes from the blades. The main purpose of bouchard is the forging of decorative plaster and the preparation of stone, concrete or brick surfaces.
Buchards are made by industrial production from strong tool steel with reinforced characteristics.
metalwork
A metalwork hammer can be called a universal tool. The construction of the hammer is equipped with two different types of strikers. One flank has an even shape, the second flank has a pointed end. The presence of two different configurations of strikers makes it possible to produce any locksmith and construction work, not limited to just hammering nails.
joiner's
The joiner's hammer can be identified by the characteristic bifurcated form of the striker. This shape of the hammer's back allows you to pull out nails without problems. Joiner hammers are successfully used for finishing corner and edge elements. A few strokes of the joiner's hammer on the edge part will prepare the element for further processing.
Joiner hammers - kirochki allow you to process excess stone, wood or tiles. A small pickaxe on the impact part of the hammer is successfully used for carpentry, tiling and stone laying. Superbly cope with the proposed work hammers with striker. As a striker can be a variety of configurations, ranging from simple narrow to square or bifurcated.
In some cases, in order not to damage the surface of the part or element, hammers with a shock nozzle made of soft material, rubber or copper are used. Such a hammer with replaceable heads is very convenient and common. The operating principle of a hammer with replaceable soft heads is based on the principle of converting the basic energy upon impact into the energy of displacement or retraction.
carpentry
An ideal variant of a carpenter's hammer is a hammer with a "claw". With the help of a carpenter's hammer, it is possible to hammer nails of any size into the wooden parts of the structure. The curved shape of the "claw" allows you to remove all unnecessary while carrying out assembly and carpentry work.
shoeless
The shoe hammer is designed for hammering nails when repairing the heels of shoes. The shape of the shoe hammer is light, so when working with this type of hammer, the hand does not get tired. The shock part of the shoe hammers is made of metal, the handle has a shortened length. The standard model of the shoe hammer is distinguished by the reliability and quality of assembly and fastening of the handle.
kiyanka
A hammer - a kiyanku characterizes a round, less often acute-angled shock part. The head of the kayak is made of solid beech wood. Therefore, the mallet is used to drive chisels into the wood. Compared with the metal part of the hammer, the impact part of the kayak does not cause any damaging effects on the handle of the chisel.
bald
Well, everything is simple ... The long handle and wide head of the Kuvald create a furious force of impact, which experts will later say: "The blow was caused by a blunt object, namely, a bald." However, it is the hammer of the bald that allows to avoid undesirable damages and traces on the working surface.
How to choose the hammer you will tell this video.
Knock-Knock! The hammer of the house master is happily knocking, creating another object or an element of the interior of the apartment.
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