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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:20 pm
by henpecked
450g rubber mallet, hickory shaft.... £2 delivered from Amazon
Delete this if its spam, but i thought of you guys as I ordered 3 for meself 
Mallet
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:24 pm
by rimexboy
only 3 left lol
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:49 pm
by Dave_L
Sold by Just Laptops Ltd...........LOL
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:50 pm
by msh paving
I don't know how most off you guy's use a rubber mallet like that, that bounces every time you hit the slab,when i first started i used them untill i was fed up with the bounce and hitting fingers,
I always use a dead blow hammer no bounce bang on time after time, rant over MSH 
like this
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:55 pm
by henpecked
Dead blows are OK, but they wear out quick and are a bit more than a couple of quid.
Its handy as I tend to end up looking for just one type of mallet,and its never where I left it ,so a couple of spares would be a bonus
I've just added 5 to my basket and it says 'plenty of stock' :;):
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:00 pm
by msh paving
the hammer i have shown link for is what i use, 2kg weight cost me £28+vat when i bought it 7 years ago,super hard plastic heads never been replaced still going strong, but thats my opinion never buy cheap tools they dont last
MSH
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:03 pm
by henpecked
Ah, when you said 'dead blow' I thought of one of those shot filled jobbies
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:11 pm
by msh paving
all dead blow are shot filled,well the 3 different ones i have are,,,,MSH
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:36 pm
by lutonlagerlout
I can lay 30 m of stone a day with my trusty wickes £2 rubber mallet
getting the bed right is more important than the hammer,
you want to lay the paving,not batter it to death :;):
LLL
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:38 pm
by local patios and driveway
Ive had those draper mallets, they fall off the handle within a day or proper work. Save your money, buy cheap buy twice as the cabin always say
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:00 am
by henpecked
My ones are fiberglass cost a fiver from a car-boot 3 years ago. I hate buying dear and some client inevitaibly walks off with it
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:06 am
by Dave_L
Thor mallets are the best.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:02 am
by lutonlagerlout
I have a thor one and couldnt get on with it
the one i use is starting to crack on the rubber ,but after laying around 2500 m of paving thats a fair result
its just what you get used to i suppose
LLL
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:30 am
by GB_Groundworks
big bead blows are good but will crack a flag or burst a thumb, ive got a white no mark bq one for taping but use big proper fibre bound rubber maul
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:44 am
by Tony McC
I like the Thor mallets, too. The rubbery compound doesn't mark as much as other brands, and they rarely split.
The worst ones are those where the shaft doesn't go all the way through the head. They often have a crappy tack allegedly holding the head onto the shaft, and that's where the split usually starts!
For many years, I had a dead-blow mallet I picked up in Germany. Hickory shaft, steel head with a chisel at one end and this incredibly tough translucent rubbery-plastic hammer at the other. It wasn't intended as a paver's mallet, but a gang I got talking to over there put me on to them and I wish I'd bought a job lot, because when it went missing (and I know exactly which arse-wipe brickie it was that robbed it, Dennis!) I couldn't track down a replacement, not even in Germany.
I currently have a 500g black'un, a 1kg black'un, a 1kg white non-marker, a 2kg black'un for heavier jobs, and the old fibre-bound maul, "The Persuader", for the really awkward sods. And I'm supposed to have been retired!