had this for nearly 20 years and look what happened. I was only using it to tap out a brake pad from a caliper and it just gave up. Got me a new
hammer today 3/4lb'er with a nice polished head and solid hickory shaft - I feel much better now
Lucky I wasn't using it in it's normal smash the hell out of it mode 
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Sorry for your loss, the next couple of days will be the hardest, but things will get better. Chin up.
I feel for you mate. Sometimes its like everything in life is just against you. This happened to me just the other day............
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Best thing you can do is go out and get hammered. Hope you haven't been shafted on the new one as it would be such a blow you may never recover
from the impact and have to knock it on the head. 
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Originally posted by FFTS
Best thing you can do is go out and get hammered. Hope you haven't been shafted on the new one as it would be such a blow you may never recover from the impact and have to knock it on the head.
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Originally posted by balidey
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Originally posted by FFTS
Best thing you can do is go out and get hammered. Hope you haven't been shafted on the new one as it would be such a blow you may never recover from the impact and have to knock it on the head.
Very good, you nailed every pun there.
Bugger
Sorry for your loss
Nowt worse than loosing an old friend
Come on chaps - this is Locostbuilders! Stop your jibber jabber and fix it! My first thought would be gaffer tape, my 2nd thought (once you hit yourself in the face with the head/tape combo) would be to make a new handle. She can live on!
Wittle and fit it back on when you are feeling better.
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Originally posted by twybrow
Come on chaps - this is Locostbuilders! Stop your jibber jabber and fix it! My first thought would be gaffer tape, my 2nd thought (once you hit yourself in the face with the head/tape combo) would be to make a new handle. She can live on!
My first thought was why not treat it to a new handle.
Though you do need a hammer to install a new handle in my experience.
Can you weld wood?
Thanks for the kind words chaps 
She's been laid to rest in the bottom drawer of the tool box - couldn't bring myself to actually throw her out.
piffle - get a 10mm drill down each broken bit of wood, araldite some steel in and then wrap in gaffer tape. Good for another 10 years at least.
If you want to be fancy, aradite some plastic in and claim its a specially designed composite handle with increased flexibility which reduces fatigue
or something.
Problem with people today is the throw away society, why i remember when i was a lad ......
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Originally posted by MikeR
piffle - get a 10mm drill down each broken bit of wood, araldite some steel in and then wrap in gaffer tape. Good for another 10 years at least.
If you want to be fancy, aradite some plastic in and claim its a specially designed composite handle with increased flexibility which reduces fatigue or something.
Problem with people today is the throw away society, why i remember when i was a lad ......
Looks like it died from lack of use, I've never seen such a clean hammer.
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Originally posted by MakeEverything
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Originally posted by twybrow
Come on chaps - this is Locostbuilders! Stop your jibber jabber and fix it! My first thought would be gaffer tape, my 2nd thought (once you hit yourself in the face with the head/tape combo) would be to make a new handle. She can live on!
"Its had three new heads and five new handles, but ive had the same one for twenty years...."
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Originally posted by iank
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Originally posted by MikeR
piffle - get a 10mm drill down each broken bit of wood, araldite some steel in and then wrap in gaffer tape. Good for another 10 years at least.
If you want to be fancy, aradite some plastic in and claim its a specially designed composite handle with increased flexibility which reduces fatigue or something.
Problem with people today is the throw away society, why i remember when i was a lad ......
Better, get a bit of wood and whittle your own.
http://www.cornishworkshop.co.uk/hammerhandle.html
Commiserations on your loss. However I'm not surprised. That head was on back to front and possibly upside down. This would have altered the forces going into the handle. Then all it needed was a stress riser like a little nick, dry rot or some woodworm and catastrophic failure was only few hits away. Accident waiting to happen IMO.
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Looks like it died from lack of use, I've never seen such a clean hammer.
As an alternative to all the above!!
You could just get out more 
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Originally posted by iank
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Originally posted by MikeR
piffle - get a 10mm drill down each broken bit of wood, araldite some steel in and then wrap in gaffer tape. Good for another 10 years at least.
If you want to be fancy, aradite some plastic in and claim its a specially designed composite handle with increased flexibility which reduces fatigue or something.
Problem with people today is the throw away society, why i remember when i was a lad ......
Better, get a bit of wood and whittle your own.
http://www.cornishworkshop.co.uk/hammerhandle.html
I think it simply lacked triangulation. Get some more handles and attach them with gussets. It will last forever.
If you can buiild a car then you can stick a handle on a tool.
Go buy a new handle and fit it.
You a Locoster or What?
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Originally posted by nick205
Got me a new hammer today 3/4lb'er with a nice polished head and solid hickory shaft
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Originally posted by Horizenjob
I think it simply lacked triangulation. Get some more handles and attach them with gussets. It will last forever.
Weld a piece of 3/4" or 1" pipe....
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Originally posted by wilkingj
If you can buiild a car then you can stick a handle on a tool.
Go buy a new handle and fit it.
You a Locoster or What?