Is this a metal shrinking hammer?

[Movin/on]

I was given a bucket of body hammers most with broken handles. Quite dirty and some rust. Soaked them in vinegar for 3 days and they came out clean.
The front hammer looks to be a shrinking hammer from what I saw in a Web search. (could also be a meat tenderizer or some type of leather working tool)
If it is a shrinking hammer what would I use for a "dollie"? flat metal or some type of shape?
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[mervyn]

I think @ZRX61 might know.

 

[isb cornbinder]

I would bet there is a handle "out there" looking for a little head. Lock the toolbox.

 

[isb cornbinder]

I was given a bucket of body hammers most with broken handles. Quite dirty and some rust. Soaked them in vinegar for 3 days and they came out clean.
The front hammer looks to be a shrinking hammer from what I saw in a Web search. (could also be a meat tenderizer or some type of leather working tool)
If it is a shrinking hammer what would I use for a "dollie"? flat metal or some type of shape?
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I am inclined to think this hammer might have been used for flat tire repair where some form of patch vulcanizing is involved. I am going to attach a picture of a very old heater used for hot patch vulcanizing. The cavity where the pins are would have been filled with kerosene and set alight. The tube would have been held by the clamping back of the heater. This unit came from a very old B/A gas station we owned.

 

[Old Man Roger]

That's clearly a wood tenderizer...DUH!

 

[Wrench97]

Make a hell of a meat tenderizer................................I'd bet old(think back in the lead filler days)

 

[ZRX61]

I think @ZRX61 might know.

I can't begin to image the damage that would do to sheet metal, but the others are all body hammers (& they all need to have the faces dressed)

 

[Wrench97]

I can't begin to image the damage that would do to sheet metal, but the others are all body hammers (& they all need to have the faces dressed)

I remember some old B model Macks and C Model Fords we beat the fenders out on with sledge hammers 3lb malletts for fine tuning

 

[ZRX61]

I've used a 14lb sledge a few times on sheet metal

 

[Forgottonia]

It sorta kinda resembles this Martin Shrinking hammer -- except for the textured face. Those points are HUGE! I'm thinking your hammer was intended for a different purpose and the body shop guy just used it as a shrinking hammer. Just spitballing here.

 

[Movin/on]

Looked at Body Hammer Images and this is one available from Summit. I'll round off the corners from mine so it won't cause a crease in compound curves.

 

[Steve_P]

looks like a meat tenderizer to me lol. Metal shrinking hammers have a fine crosshatch, like above; that one is medieval.

 

[driftpin]

looks like a meat tenderizer to me lol. Metal shrinking hammers have a fine crosshatch, like above; that one is medieval.

Maybe used on this guy:

 

[RTM]

Kitchen tool, combo ice chipper and meat tenderizer.

there is an ice tool museum online somewhere

geez, that took a while

http://www.icetoolcollection.com/12combinationtools.htm#MeatTenderer

 

[LOW1]

Reverse engineered from an alien spaceship

 

[JradM]

I would get filing until the teeth were flattened and the hammer became something useful.

 

[toolenthusiast]

That does not look like any shrinking hammer I’ve ever seen in a body shop. To be fair, no one uses waffle-faced shrinking hammers nowadays.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Kitchen tool, combo ice chipper and meat tenderizer.

there is an ice tool museum online somewhere

geez, that took a while

http://www.icetoolcollection.com/12combinationtools.htm#MeatTenderer

My first thought was meat tenderizer, but I thought it would be stainless. Good find though.

 

[DenisG]

Might be a stippling tool.

 

[NYBODYMAN]

I wouldn't use that on any sheet metal.

 

[Lassen Forge]

It's used on plate steel, in some country's naval yards when working on other country's naval craft - eg "You shrunk my battleship"...

Seriously, it looks like an Abalone hammer to me, but it might have something to do with working sheet metal prior to application of lead as a body filler... give it texture for the molten metal to hold. the hatchet end of said hammer is what made me think about that, but it's been SO long since I saw someone doing "Traditional" (eg non bondo) filler work it's a dim, dim memory...

 

[tester19]

Yes shrinking hammers and shrinking dolly's have pretty much fallen out of favor as there are a number of shrinking devices that do a much better job with far less sheet metal damage.
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[PugetDude]

Yes shrinking hammers and shrinking dolly's have pretty much fallen out of favor as there are a number of shrinking devices that do a much better job with far less sheet metal damage.
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Links?

 

[dnschmidt]

Shrinking disc for one and a simple torch and wet rag for another. Also, for metal fabrication there are shrinker/spreaders that are foot operated that work much better than a hammer. The original post showed a meat tenderizer not a shrinking hammer.