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(04-18-2019, 10:32 PM)Stwood_ Wrote: Welding a brass hammer head would be near impossible with a stick welder.


I'm thinking brass might be used for other reasons also. To not create sparks around gas/fuel

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But that's why manufacturers used Beryllium Copper..much less "ductile" than brass and steel and "non-sparking"..The "ball pein" is what is confusing to me.....the ball end is used to "move metal" like in bradding a rivet or whatever and should be somewhat harder or "less ductile" than what you are using it on...I guess we will never be sure what it's intended purpose is.
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Collector was more than happy with it, from the OEM handle to the C.C.C. & St. L logo stamped into the side of the hammer head...
Cool .Seems it was from the workshops at that 32 stall Roundhouse the railroad had in town ( Bellefontaine, OH)  Thinking goes that hole is from someone driving a pin, or even a "Cotterpin" in or out.   may have even used a second hammer onto the brass one, as the head has a slight mushroomed face...and is chewed up more than the ball end...
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Sold the hammer, and a few RR wrenches and kept the large Stanley screwdriver.  One of the wrenches was stamped with the logo of the old Traction Line that went through the area.  
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Show me a picture, I'll build a project from that
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