screw-hammer

[docc]

My brother has run across a reference to this tool in the HG Wells novel "Wheels of Chance." Apparently a Britsh thing, has anyone a clue?

[Martin Barrett]

I would think a slide hammer. The rod would screw in to what ever you wanted to remove and then slide a weight along the length hitting a stop at the other end, there by hammering outwards. Sorry if the explanation is stating the obvious but we have a "common" language. I know you've had previous fun at my expense with the "Jubilee"/ Hose clip

[Martin Barrett]

Or I'm now thinking of a large hamer that is lifted by worm screw/cam and then drops. Some sort of automated hammering forge thingymajig.

Sorry I've not read the book so don't know the context of its usage.

[Martin Barrett]

Screw Hammer - specialy designed hammer for striking the end of bolts- eg spindle removal, without totaly destroying the thread ends so the nut will still go back on.

 

If it's one of these I could do with one

 

Three guesses, one of them might be correct.

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

My brother has run across a reference to this tool in the HG Wells novel "Wheels of Chance." Apparently a Britsh thing, has anyone a clue?

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Hear is an excerpt from the book that mentions the screw hammer. Maybe it will help.

 

Wheels of Chance

 

It seems to be a sort of adjustable wrench with a hammer head built into it.

[Guest Nogbad]

I think it is an early adjustable wrench. These things look just like a hammer in profile and some had a thicker pad on the back of the fixed jaw so that you could use it as a hammer as well as a spanner.

 

I think the original of these wrenches was introduced by Abingdon King D1ck which is still making tools today.

 

I will try to find a picture. (Stupid swear filter - Do we have to put up with this nannying censorship Jaap??)

 

[belfastguzzi]

I think it is an early adjustable wrench. These things look just like a hammer in profile and some had a thicker pad on the back of the fixed jaw so that you could use it as a hammer as well as a spanner.

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Nice. I use some of those lads at home.

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

Great looking tools. Sometimes called a Ford wrench in America.

 

Here is another version of screw hammer albeit a little bit more modern!

 

Screw Hammer

 

I quite enjoy the quote at the bottom of the page:

 

"When you have a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail."

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

I have a "Miners wrench" at home that is act6ually made for mine workers and is an adjustable (or crescent) wrench with a hammer head built into it and a spanner built into the handle. It is used for basic tasks on underground machinery. I'll try and get a picture for the forum.

 

edit: similar to this

 

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

Maybe it describes what happens when you drink too much and then meet an amourous woman!!

[mike wilson]

Hear is an excerpt from the book that mentions the screw hammer. Maybe it will help.

 

Wheels of Chance

 

 

They don't write them like that any more. 8-( Anyone else here like Ixion, et al?

 

http://www.realclassic.co.uk/books/booksixion.html

 

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[docc]

Thanks , lads! I've given my brother a link to come see your responses. From sliding dogs and screw-hammers to the Dutch soccer team, we are an eclectic bunch!

[twhitaker]

It could be a 'Ford' wrench but from where I come we call it a 'Monkey' wrench.