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Equipment => Bats => Bat Care => Topic started by: reachkarthik on June 27, 2018, 12:38:10 AM
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Why do we need to use a wooden mallet? Would'nt the bat face get knocked in equally well with a plastic or rubber mallet? Thanks.
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I can't imagine plastic would be heavy enough or hard enough, and I'm not a scientist, but I would think that a rubber mallet would absorb most of the impact when striking the bat instead of the actual bat. Anything you use to knock in a bat would have to be as hard or probably harder than the willow itself. I've heard of people trying out hammers though, in theory that should work but it would be very easy to damage the bat, so probably don't take a hammer to your bat.
Personally I subscribe to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of thought and will keep using my bat mallet.
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Short answer no .
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Yes is the answer.
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I would've thought a strong resin would do the job - but when wooden mallets are under a tenner there is literally zero point in exploring this lol
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I'm sure I've seen a picture somewhere of Sehwag hitting his bat with a claw hammer....
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Didn't the podfather himself use a Nylon mallet?
Edit, see here https://youtu.be/KRAd8vrYhQo
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Aldred is the only non-wooden one I can think of recently (note also the Newbery box in the background ;) )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI9Zq0T_Wuw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI9Zq0T_Wuw)
He does all the repairs for Newbury, that's whats in the boxes.
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Didn't the podfather himself use a Nylon mallet?
Edit, see here https://youtu.be/KRAd8vrYhQo
This nylon mallet was identified in a old thread too. Search and you may find.
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Short answer no .
Shut up , you're talking rubbish . :D
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So , basically , if you were hell bent on not using a wooden mallet and could source a nylon one then you could use that .....but a claw hammer is really asking for trouble /craters .
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Modified sledge hammer would be good, round the edges. Mount it onto a hammer drill
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Didn't the podfather himself use a Nylon mallet?
Edit, see here https://youtu.be/KRAd8vrYhQo
I reached out to the ‘podfather’ a few years ago asking about said mallet... He indicated he’d had it professionally engineered and cost him well over $100 years before hand. I did the numbers the and figured it was going to be about $200 to get one made... So I’ve still got my timber one.
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I'm sure I've seen a picture somewhere of Sehwag hitting his bat with a claw hammer....
(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac151/buzzrockport/Sehwaghammer.jpg) (http://s895.photobucket.com/user/buzzrockport/media/Sehwaghammer.jpg.html)
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([url]http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac151/buzzrockport/Sehwaghammer.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s895.photobucket.com/user/buzzrockport/media/Sehwaghammer.jpg.html[/url])
Looks naaaaasty ! ;)
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Apologies for the delay and thanks a lot for all your answers/comments. I have been having trouble finding a heavier mallet here in the US. All the wooden mallets that I seem to find here are the same generic light ones which means you really have to go at it. However the hardware stores carry the nylon ones and i was wondering if i can use that instead. I will stick with the wooden one for now and see if i can get a heavier one custom made. Thanks once again for all your insights and i am definitely not taking a claw hammer to my SS Ranger :-)
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([url]http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac151/buzzrockport/Sehwaghammer.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s895.photobucket.com/user/buzzrockport/media/Sehwaghammer.jpg.html[/url])
That's the one!
Cheers Buzz, glad I'm not losing my mind. :D