Why would you use a sledge instead of a dead blow?
Appropriate Hammer for Working On Car Suspension
- Thread starter winlinmac
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There is always a better tool out there. Just spend the money. I got a pair of these, mostly hitting stuff with a block of wood in between. These are essentially dead blow hammers.
Consistency isn't your strong suit. On the one hand you say "Spend the money and get the right tool for the job" and then you say "these things and a block of wood are great for me."
And again, to be absolutely clear, what's in the picture above are not deadblow hammers. I would call them a sledge or mini-sledge, but the appropriate name appears to be "engineer hammer". Whatever the entirely-correct term for them is, "dead blow" isn't it.
In full transparency, I do have a small Eastwing sledge/engineer hammer/whatever I used with a block of wood for years working on my cars. OK for rotors, but super-sucked when working on suspension stuff, but I managed. It's been pretty quiet once my Trusty Cook stuff showed up. It was used to demo some decking a couple times, and that's about it. The "Stubby's Cousin" is legit the best thing for working on cars I've ever had - a soft dead-blow side for delivering a solid-to-powerful blow without damage or the grumpy end when it doesn't matter, while being short enough to get at tight spots. It's the definitive "appropriate hammer for working on a car suspension", at least for me. One of my absolute favorite tools:
dnschmidt
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Hammers?? Come on guys there is only one: BIG NASTY.