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Hammers and Chisels

Thor Soft Hammers
Thor Soft Hammers
When loosening or tighteneing larger sized nuts and bolts a few hammer strikes often do the trick. Putting a cover into place also becomes alot easier when you can assist with a few soft blows. But please, do not use your trusted steel sledge for these jobs and spare the nice and smooth surfaces of your expensive spanners and covers. The copper and rawhide faced Thor hammers provide a safer alternative to striking with conventional steel hammers. The resilient soft striking faces shape themselves to the part being struck. Acting as shock absorbers, they spread the force of the blow uniformly, minimising inefficient rebound and damage to components. Soft-faced hammers also reduce noise pollution in the workplace. The faces are designed to wear and can be replaced. Handles are made from ash wood. Available in various "weight categories", with the 2380 g version being a perfect helper when truing flywheels, too.
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Bahco Impact Driver
Bahco Impact Driver
After decades of service some screws or bolts simply refuse to cooperate with regular tools, especially after they have been abused with improper tools in the past. A good impact driver enormously helps to convince stubborn hardware. The Bahco kit comprises everything you need to get those jobs done:
impact driver with 1/2” square drive (left & right turn), 4 slotted bits, size 5 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm, 10 mm, 4 Phillips bits, size 1 mm, 2 mm, 3 mm, 4 mm, 4 hex bits, size 4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm, 1 bit holding adapter, 1 Adapter, 5/16" hex to 3/8" square drive, 1 plastic storage box,
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Bahco Chisel & Punch Sets
Bahco Chisel & Punch Sets
Daddy’s little helpers in the workshop. This set of quality chisels and punches is essential when you build or restore a motorcycle. With thousand and one uses they will soon be among your tools, which see the most action. Each set contains:
1x flat chisel 12 mm, length: 125 mm , 1x flat chisel 16 mm, length: 150 mm, 1x cross-cut chisel 5 mm, length: 124 mm, 1x center-punch 4 mm, length: 120 mm, 1x tapered punch 3 mm, length: 121 mm, 1x tapered punch 4 mm, length: 150 mm,
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Bahco Automatic Center Punches
Bahco Automatic Center Punches
These single-handedly operated center punches are released by simple pressure. This way they can not bounce from the hammer blow. A wide knurling provides a good grip when applying, the necessary pressure can be adjusted steplessly via the knurled cap.
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Grace USA Brass/Delrin Soft Hammer
Grace USA Brass/Delrin Soft Hammer
For tapping alignment studs home or separating carankcase halves your good ol' steel half pounder simply isn’t the right tool. A Grace USA 8 oz. soft-face mallet is what you need here. It features a brass head that is hand turned from CDA 360 brass rod and hand polished. On one end it has a high quality Delrin tip that is securely locked into place and that offers instant availablilty when the need arises. A properly seasoned hickory handle is pressed into the head and securely pinned. This hammer is a work of art yet designed to serve the professional or hobbyist mechanic.
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Grace USA Brass Punch Set
Grace USA Brass Punch Set
This pin punch set is made with utmost precision from high quality CDA 360 USA made hex brass rod and finally beautifully polished. They are machine turned and designed for critical work were non-marring and non-sparking are of importance. Carefully made to drive pins or to gently move steel objects.
The 8-piece set comprises the following punches:
punch 1/16”, punch 3/32”, punch 1/8”, punch 5/32”, punch 3/16”, punch 7/32”, punch 1/4”, punch 5/16”,
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Grace USA Steel Punch Set
Grace USA Steel Punch Set
For meticulous work on detailed projects. These punches are made from high carbon molybendenum tool steel and properly heat treated with tempered striking end. They are also centerless ground for complete accuracy and we have incorporated a reverse taper from tip of punch to help prevent punch from sticking in the work piece. The punches are manufactured from hex stock steel vs. round which helps stabilize punch from rolling away from user.
The 7-piece set comprises the following punches:
center-punch 3.5 mm, length 107 mm, tapered punch 1/16”, length 114.5 mm, punch 1/16”, length 108.5 mm, punch 5/64”, length 114.5 mm, punch 3/32”, length 121 mm, punch 1/8”, length 127 mm, punch 5/32”, length 134 mm,
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Replacement Parts
Replacement Parts

Blow by blow: hammers and chisels

If I had a hammer ... well, W&W can help. When tinkering and wrenching on the Harley, you often encounter stubborn screws that will resist to loosening, rivet heads to form or cut off, caked-on housing halves to separate, pins to set, cotter pins to drive out - it doesn't always go off without a bit of force in the workshop. For precise yet gentle use of force, there are locksmith's hammers, soft-face mallets, chisels, drivers and center punches from Estwing, Thor, Bahco and Grace.

Locksmith's hammer, soft-face mallet - oh my, what there is ...

The locksmith's hammer is the simple hammer that you usually have in your toolbox: a square, slightly convex face on one side for the tougher work and a narrow fin on the other for the finer parts in a mechanic's life. The soft-face mallet usually has cylindrical striking surfaces made from a soft material: Brass, copper, plastic, rawhide. It is not used to drive screws or nails into holes, but rather to loosen tensions with targeted blows on housing corners or fins, to separate housings, to carefully drive camshaft covers with their camshafts into place: simply any work where you don't want to see any dents in the material as a result.

Pin punch, through punch, center punch - what's the difference?

The center punch is the easiest to explain: with its end ground to a point, it leaves a small dent in the material. The dent is used to center the drill bit, as metal drills do not have a center point and tend to wander on smooth metal surfaces before they remove the first chips. The pin punch has a cylindrically shaped, more or less long blunt end. It is used to drive cotter pins and pins out of narrow holes. The cylindrical end should be handled with care, especially with the thin versions. It bends very easily if the punch is bent. The (hardened) ends also tend to break off when tilted.

The through punch and is also blunt at the end. With its conical shape, it cannot be used to drive a cotter pin completely through a hole. However, it is excellent for driving short pins and breaking loose stuck screws. (If the through punch then stops on the material, you can still use a pin punch and drive the stubborn pin all the way through). The main advantage of the conical shape is that the punch does not break as quickly. It can therefore be blown stronger than a pin punch. And this kind of punch is excellent for "restoring" the screw heads of Phillips screws on Mikuni and Keihin carburetors.

Have any questions?

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