Snap-On Hammers

[jmscollinsiii]

Interested in picking up a couple of the Snap-On dead blown ball peen hammers. My question is what makes them better than a regular wooden handle ball peen and worth the average $80 to $90 a piece. Not looking for a HF vs. Snap-On thread!

 

[jmscollinsiii]

Posted in wrong forum can some explain to me how to delete? Thanks and sorry guys.

 

[TerryH]

The first thing that comes to mind is that you'll never have to buy them again. Love my Snap On hammers.

 

[vintagefan]

Firstly, there aren't a whole lot of dead blow ball peens on the market.

The ones that are on the market are generally USA made, and cost almost what the Snap-on ones do. (example, go to mcmaster.com, and search for "dead blow ball peen")

The Snap-on hammers have precision machined faces, as opposed to hand ground faces. The injection molding quality is in a league of its own, and they have high quality TPR grips whereas most are just bare slippery plastic.

Finally, you can beat them until they literally fall apart, and get a new one for free. Not only are they the best dead blow ball peen on the market (by far), you only have to buy them once in your lifetime, so the price is somewhat irrelevant.

 

[4xdog]

I had an old Blue Point dead blow ball peen hammer that was my go-to for many, many years. Eventually the synthetic polymer stated to degrade and then split. Probably after thirty-plus years -- it wasn't new when I got it.

I replaced it five years or so ago with the Snap-on version. I frankly don't particularly like the Coke-bottle shaped handle as much as the old Blue Point, but everything else is super. It's by far the hammer I use most, and no doubt about recommending it.

 

[Bull]

Does SO make their own, or are they produced for them by someone else?

 

[Skin]

Does SO make their own, or are they produced for them by someone else?

Red with black grips are made by Snap-On.

 

[kythri]

Trusty-Cook claims all of the tool trucks as a private label customer:

http://www.trustycook.com/hammers.php

Edit: Or, 3 of the 4...

 

[Skin]

Trusty-Cook claims all of the tool trucks as a private label customer:

http://www.trustycook.com/hammers.php

Trusty Cook and Nupla do a lot of supplying to all the tool trucks but with regards to dead blows Snap-On makes their own. They stopped using Trusty Cook dead blows years ago. You can spot them by their knurled handles that resemble fish scales. As I said anything with the black grips is made in a Snap-On factory.