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In this video I restored an old rusty sledgehammer! 🔨
Like always I started with disassembling, but I didn’t remove the wedge of the handle because I planned to make a new one anyway.
For removing the rust I used two different methods, but only to test the new rust remover I got. For the rest of the rust I used electrolysis and just as expected it turned out great!
I started to clean the surfaces with the angle grinder. Since there was a lot of pitting in the metal this took a while and a lot of grinding wheels..
After that I sanded only from 80 to 320 grit, because the metal was still hardened so the sand paper perished very fast and I didn’t want to waste recourses.
I polished with the angle grinder and surprisingly I got a nice mirror polish!
The handle was a lot of work, since I did the shaping only with one rasp, some files and knives. I added brass rivets and oiled the wood after sanding it up to 240 grit.
And that was it! This project took very long but I learned a lot and it was very fun to make!
I hope you liked the video! Thank you for watching and feel free to leave a comment and subscribe if you liked :)
Until next time :)