I’ve heard that saying countless times and no amount of googling gave me a satisfactory answer.
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Because both are made to transmit a lot of force into another object. And if you put two of them in motion towards each other, you are putting a lot of force out there and there’s only so many things they can do, many of them bad. Most likely they will deflect off as some hard-to-predict angle, possibly flying out of your hand if your grip isn’t ideal and possibly doing damage to someone or something even if you keep a hold on them. You might also get breaking of one or both handles, flaking off of shards of metal from one or both hammers (which can potentially then fly off really fast due to the amount of energy involved), or even just a complete miss.
Hitting two pieces of hardened steel together is a bad idea. To my understanding, it’s because the hardening process makes it brittle as well. So when hitting something as hard or harder it can send fragments flying off (or into someone). I watched an old co-worker of mine do this and when the chunk tore into his arm he said it felt like getting shot.
For the same reason you shouldnt hammer bearing races with a steel hammer. Basically 2 hard thing hitting each other its very likely a pice will break off and go flying.
They’re very hard. Striking a hammer on a nail is ok because the mail is a soft metal. This is also the same reason you shouldn’t strike an anvil. When the softer metal is struck, it will deform before it breaks.
When you strike a hammer on a hammer, you risk cracking either hammer and sending chips of metal flying.
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Because hammers are hardened metal, it makes them incredibly strong against bending and warping, but also very brittle, so if you hit two hammers together, they can shatter and send metal shards flying, which I’m sure you can imagine can be incredibly dangerous.
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Kid at my school hit two hammers together and one chipped violently – a tiny piece blew off at very high speed and lodged in his chin. rumour was they could not remove it as it was in so deep, so it stayed there.
Had it been his throat or eyes or anywhere else but a hard bony part of his face that would have been extremely bad.
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