Has this ever happened to you
This hammer sucks. Using a hammer can cause aches and pains and just be downright fatiguing
Introducing the ultralight all carbon fiber hammer. With a flick of the wrist, your nails will be..
Today we're going to be making the world's lightest hammer out of carbon fiber
and using some methods we haven't tried before that are a lot more time consuming
but should definitely give us some better results. We've made a couple carbon fiber bats in the past
and they haven't turned out exactly as we wanted. So hopefully these methods will give us the results we're looking for
After that, we're going to put it up to the test against a normal hammer and see if we wasted an entire week or if it was worth it
These are the real questions science needs the answers to. So the original plan was to take one of these hammers
cover it in electrical tape to make room for the carbon fiber
and then cast it in plaster of Paris. All right, that's looking nice and mixed up
But actually, I don't know if we confirmed where this plaster is from
That's the source. That's Paris, all right? No. You're good to go
Sweet. Give it the old tapa-tapa
First one set up way too fast. It was a little too deep and it cracked
So we're gonna try and make it faster with this second one. Got a few air bubbles
So we're gonna pour around the hammer and see if that helps, but it might not
Delicious. Right in the splash zone. Sounds nice
Two hours later. 28, 29, 80. We split the resin into four so it won't cure as fast
We're going to take these bigger, nicer sheets and lay them out and squeegee on the resin
And then put that in. That's going to be the visible layer. And then we're going to put some reinforcement sheets that are a little smaller
And they won't be as pretty, but we won't be able to see those. And
Oh
That ought to hold it. Okay, a couple hours in the hot box, and we should be good to go
It's hard in some places and not in others. After a lot longer than this should have taken, these are looking ready
I think the water in the plaster was cooling them down so they wouldn't cure as fast
How do I get this out? What's the matter with these scissors
There we go. Oh, that's not rigid. Look at all that moisture
Plaster was sweating. Oh dear. Why Why must you hurt me this way Back to the hotbox Looking a lot better here so we take them out now Respirator
I hardly know her. Okay, we got our first half here, not half bad
If I had a dollar for every sliver I've gotten from this carbon fiber, I'd have at least a
few dollars. Cool. Here it comes. Oh, yeah
Now both halves, and that feels like nothing. You may have thought leprosy was gone, but it is in fact back
Now you may be wondering why we just send it out for no reason, but it's so we can get a nice coating
of epoxy on the inside, and then we're going to put a real metal head right here just from this part
over to here because you and I both know carbon fiber isn't going to survive hitting anything
It's like a glove. Luckily our resin is super strong and lightweight
Okay, we're gonna let this sit here at this angle so the resin will pool in the back here
Keep the weight up here because that's what you want. Hot box
Oh boy. Sure. Oh boy. Sure. Definitely leaked out a bit
but we can sand that down. This is real tough. I can't tell where the resin stops
and the carbon fiber begins. So, uh, hopefully this doesn't end up looking like trash
I do not have the adequate tools to make this not look like crap
Okay, here we go. The original hammer weight, about 25 ounces or 700 grams
And the carbon fiber hammer, just over six ounces. Not too bad
180 grams. That's a nice even number. So it's about four times lighter than the normal one
Not too bad eh Now let see if it actually works We have here the ultimate hammer gauntlet Two small nails two medium nails and two big johns One for each hammer
The Stanley and the Manly. And we're going to see if this actually does anything
or if it's too light and has no mass to drive in the nails. Okay, test number one, our control
Six ounce. Oof. That might have been user error. Oh
Close enough. Okay, definitely a little harder to get it in there
The weight of the hammer isn't helping you out as much. Round three with the Stanley
Yeah, I hate to say that this hammer is not great
Now we got to see if we can pull nails out. In there like swimwear
I don't want to see any comments making fun of me for not being manly
Just have no leverage on it. With the right leverage and the proper application of strength
There we go. Okay, well, uh, that probably wouldn't have worked with the carbon fiber hammer, I'll say it
But just for kicks and giggles. Oh, this is gonna break. There's no way
I do not, do not have any confidence in this. Oh, it's gonna be so sad when this breaks on camera
Oh, yeah. I do not want to break it. I still don't take your thumbnail pics
I'm gonna clear coat this before I ruin it. Oh, good gravy
I should not be clear coating right here. You didn't see anything
Okay, extreme durability test. Oh, my ears. Looking good so far
That's a lot of damage. It survived. So a carbon fiber hammer is worse than a real hammer because it doesn't have enough mass
But if you think about it, the real carbon fiber hammer was the friends we made along the way