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Originally posted by lyman:
are they big enough to make a Beryllium Sphere?
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Do not hit it with Grabthar's hammer.

Well, a loong time ago I fished with a beryllium copper flyrod. It was a delight to use.

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Originally posted by slabsides45:
I think that's what my old Ping Eye 2's were, back in tha day.... same metal?

Yep. Exactly. They were great. And an overnight in Coke and they were sparkly and new.

Also, used in fuel nozzles to avoid sparks while refueling.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Never new these would be used in so many differing industries. I'll probably never use them for what they are intended. Just add them to my tool box for now. If I did put them in Ebay, I'd post them as being used by Tibbits to arm up Little Boy and Fat Man enroute to target. Maybe a start bid of $6,000.00... . Original Tibbits pliers. Yes rburg, Richwood.

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Originally posted by Schmelby:
We used the non sparking hammers to tighten the oxygen hose fitting on
our tanker trucks. If I remember, the metal was pretty soft. The hammer
face would mushroom out and have to be replaced fairly often.

Watching a nonsparking sledgehammer mushroom is pretty interesting too.

If you think tool life is short as a hammer, you should see how long it lasts as the chisel/drill in pneumatic jackhammers.