My hammer head flew off in the middle of a rush order last Friday

I was working on a custom gate hinge in my shop near Phoenix when my cross peen hammer head just flew off the handle mid-swing. It hit the concrete floor and cracked a tile, and I stood there for a second trying to figure out what happened. Turns out the wedge had worked loose after months of heavy use and I hadn't checked it. I had to stop everything and spend an hour fixing it with a new wedge and epoxy. Has anyone else had a tool fail on them during a tight deadline like that?

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fiona_lewis3712d agoMost Upvoted

Those tiles are expensive to replace, man. A crack in concrete shop floor drives me nuts once it's there, you can't really unsee it. I had a framing hammer head fly off on a job once, but it was just a cheap one I'd had for years. Never had it happen with a cross peen though, those things have such a solid swing usually. That thirty minute fix always turns into an hour somehow, doesn't it.

eva_rivera12d ago

Oh man, ain't that the truth (the time thing, I mean).