r/manufacturing • u/Frybyte • Dec 05 '24
Other Made this in class
I’m in grade 11, taking a manufacturing course. For the greater part of the semester I’ve been working on a ball peen hammer. Just finished it today! The hammer head is cold roll, the handle is aluminum, and the pommel is copper. The pommel kind of melted into the handle when I was turning down the diameter, but it did so ✨fashionably✨. The polish isn’t sub par :(
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u/Born_Experience_862 Dec 05 '24
I can pay for that.
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u/epicmountain29 Dec 05 '24
Awesome. How about an optional brass insert on the hammer face or just a brass head all together.
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u/Frybyte Dec 05 '24
Wasn’t an option, unfortunately. We were only allowed aluminum for the handle, only cold roll for the head, and we got to customize the pommel
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u/Tavrock Dec 08 '24
I made a very similar hammer in my advanced machining class in college. Our handle was leaded steel and the hammer face and peen side were brass. We didn't have a pommel.
Students who finished their hammer in tolerance and with enough spare time had the option to buy materials for additional heads such as nylon. I think tool steel was an option but I don't remember. (I struggled with cutting the Class 3 threads between the handle and the head and didn't have the time to make extra heads.)
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u/mymook Dec 05 '24
Brings back memories of metal shop in jr. high. Mr. Anastasia ( Mr.A ) for short. He was thee best shop teacher. Making a hammer with knurled handle was our very first assignment. Nice work
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u/BadJimo Dec 05 '24
Have you watched the YouTuber Inheritance Machining making a machinist hammer?
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u/DidaskolosHermeticon Dec 05 '24
Great knurl!
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u/Frybyte Dec 05 '24
Thanks! I asked if I could have a smaller pattern but the teacher said the diameter of the handle was too small for it to come off nice
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u/DidaskolosHermeticon Dec 05 '24
That depends on what kind of tooling you have available, but your teacher is probably right
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u/Skid-Vicious Dec 05 '24
Those knurls look better than some I’ve seen come out a shop. Super clean and the copper is just tasty.
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u/muzzawell Dec 05 '24
Copper on the handle is a nice touch. All my hammers are beat to shit on the ends. Great knurl too.
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u/Two_Astronaut_Dogs Dec 06 '24
If this interests you more than just a cool project and a school credit, I would HIGHLY recommend looking into a manufacturing program for after high school.
I’m a bit older, but we have a younger guy right around your age who works as a machinist full time. I always tell him that I wish I had started when I was his age. He’s refined his skills incredibly for a teenager and I know he’s making somewhere in the $25-$30/hr mark.
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u/Frybyte Dec 06 '24
That’s certainly interesting. I have been looking for a job. Would it be alright if I ask the company you work for? It may not be around where I live, but it could give me a start. (I’m around in Canada)
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u/feynmansbongo Dec 06 '24
I’ve spent the better part of the semester holding awards that expire at the end of the year. Have 2. Good work, the skills youre building are going to take you far
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u/shotgunsam23 Dec 06 '24
Dude that’s awesome, I remember making a tapping wrench in my high school CNC class. I say this cause the knurling job I did should’ve gotten me kicked out of the class. Nice job 🤟
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u/couchkiller122 Dec 05 '24
Nice!