
I like Greg's idea of using a vice or maybe something of a similar nature. It's kind of like a controlled explosion.....

I have all three in all different shapes and sizes, presses vices and hammers..up to a 50 ton press, a 50 kilo vice and up to a 15 kilo sledge hammer.Igor, actually the press does not control more than a vise, but more than a hammer.
As long as it looks good and has a "look a like" to the real thingf you look at the footplate of many locos, not all loco coal is graded, and it certainly isn't on my railroad
That's more like a slater's hammer - the pointed end for making the hole, and the flat end for hammering the nailFirst used Estwing when I was 5 years old.
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Roofing tiles? and thin marble (ect) tiles? right?That's more like a slater's hammer
Yes, but only slate roof tiles, as they do not come with the holes ready made.Roofing tiles?
I thought the hammer that Greg and i were talking about was more for stone and ore research?
That is pretty close, I tend to think of a Kilo bag of sugar in UK as being about the size of the 2lb bag we used to get before we were force fed Kilos etc. Trouble is my mind still thinks Pounds, Ounces and Tons plus Pounds, Shillings and Pennies.In pounds you must double the numbers? right? in the imperial system i must calculate, i will do this tomorrow for you.
With best regards Igor
Why do we always say 11 stone, when it should be 11 stones?Oh since you asked I am 11 stone. I know you did not but now you know.
I don't know the answer to that, but I do like the story that they are derived from Chedworth Buns: Fossils used to weigh butterWhy do we always say 11 stone, when it should be 11 stones?