But will they... Explode?? #carpentry #tooltips #diy #woodwork #howto #wood #explode

It's not about exploding hammers, it's about that if you hit two hardened metals together, then you you risk hitting loose a splinter from one of them, that will shoot out in a random direction, at very high speeds, and those shards are VERY sharp... that people do it anyway doesn’t make it safe. And you're fundamentally wrong about the anvil thing. Smiths do NOT use hardened hammers against an anvil. They use sledgehammers, which are made from softer materials, which deform rather than chip... That builders do it, has nothing to do with safety. Watch some inspectors vids and you quickly learn that they all too often don't follow the rules.

have they never watched mythbusters?

Whoever thought they would explode, should definitely still be in preschool

No way you people in USA really think that slamming 2 hammers would make them explode 💀😭

Yeah no thats dangerous shit. A friend of mine shot a piece of a chisel in his hand. The tip of a centerpunch lives in my littl finger👌🏻 dont hammer hardened things

Don’t you know that dumb asses will parrot anything they see on the internet

I think people are talking about slag, sparks etc
People like to over exaggerate

Jerry rig everything

I didn't know hammer made of explosive material

c'mon!!! is like same idea that you can't eat apples from a tree...

These are all from kids that kept hitting hammers together and ruining them. Their grandpas said that it would explode if they kept doing it. Just to make them stop, now they never put 2 and 3 together to see it was just to make them stop ruining hammers

If you bang two hammers together it creates a black hole.

In the late 1800', the UK experimented on experimental bombs to be droped from hot air balloons. It basically consisted of 2 hammers and a small parachute. THe hammer would spread out while free falling, and when the chute deployed, it pulled on the butt of the handle, and the 2 hammer head would violently smash together.
The yield was the equivalent of 2 Mt of TNT, and had to be abandonned because the hot air balloon couldn't go away fast enough and still in the blast radius

If a hammer could explode like that i would be dead

Sometimes I wonder if people really are that dumb

Man, those peppols are stupid.

Even a 3yr could tell you that's bs lol

My 5yo ahh would have died in a explosion if that was the case

i used to do this all the time when i was younger wacking hammers together while waiting for dad to finish what ever hes doing!

Parents: don't believe everything you see on the internet
This guy: don't believe something you don't see on the internet.

its literally just that both hammers are hardened so theres no way to tell which one will give first. thing is you still have to hit them together so hard they risk breaking in the first place.

U could also use that to get the nail to critical temperature for starting fires

Stop believing crazy people claiming bullshit😂

no smith hits the anvil😂

I will be honest with you I did not think that was actually a thing people believed.

Really wish people would just google the shit mommy and daddy told you when you were little before you go around making yourself look stupid.

People that think that probably have never driven a nail into anything

The secret is nitroglycerin. Coat the anvil hammer in it, then it goes kaboom

I'm not an engineer but last time I checked the hammers weren't filled with f***ing gun powder

What is fun is letting two large ball bearings (2 inch ones are optimal) smash together, since the tiny surface area and large force at the point of contact will create a ton of heat and can produce flame.

if hammers exploded on contact with one another, chisels wouldn’t exist.

It also makes a really loud and annoying sound so wear ear protrction

Who would publish them if the explosion killed them?

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For another thing, hammers are made to be banged against shit. If they exploded upon being used for their intended function, they would very quickly be reinvented.

Liie I heard all my life, You cant put brains in statues.
Well you can, but its obviously not gonna work

They won't explode but you will probably score the shit out of the inside of that wooden vice. Your vice your choice.

blacksmith here; the hammers heat treatment would have to be comically fucked up to be at risk of "exploding" (much more likely to be a chip flying off or cracking and breaking along that crack. this actually is an issue when using cast iron anvils which i do not reccomend)

Well, Rex, if your hammers aren't exploding, you're just not using enough fulminate.

Hammers explode 💀? Wha

I feel like the main danger is that of like a dryfired bow

If the energy has nowhere to go the crash is disastrious
Hitting a hammer with another hammer barely does anything if one of them isnt moving

But slamming two hammers together is like two waves clashing in the ocean.
The peak force there is so much higher(albeit for very short) that, in this case, might make it more likely for a small fragment to fly off

Did you voice Lem from planet 51?

If you want to make it yourself just look for woodprix. There is all you need to make it :)

My metal shop teacher has a piece of metal in his body that says watch the eff outfit those little chunks.

No you don’t do that.

I am a bit baffeld that people say that and possibly think that, but I am pretty sure there was just a language barrier.

exploding is insane
but if one of them is rusty there's risk of creating molten slag or something

X1

I’m pretty sure that one hammer has to be rusty for there to be an explosion, but I’m open to corrections.

At my previous job with a moving company, me and my co workers found out hitting them hard would cause slag to spark off. Our dumbasses kept sending sparks at each other lol.