Doesn't sound like you have used one. The rounded ball end is very useful.
A flat face hammer can't dimple the center of a rod and begin to spread it
outward. A flat face can only bend over the edges. They tend to be thin
and would crack.

Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Cliff wrote:
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:41:54 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:


Depended on what the smith had naturally - if a ball pein was there - then the ball
end was used to pein the bolt.


The other end would work better for that application I suspect.
Things slip & aim is poor .... and you are aiming just above the
nuts ....

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