To hit nails into things mostly. Shocking. Seriously: to hammer iron and steel without damaging it, as brass is softer.
brass
brass is a soft metal and is used to hit metal. a brass hammer is made to not damage the material. But instead damage the hammerANS 2 -Brass hammers are used for things like knocking bearings into place in the seat, moving easily damaged parts on a gear rod, and similar things where a steel hammer would cause damage.
To hit nails into things mostly. Shocking. Seriously: to hammer iron and steel without damaging it, as brass is softer.
It is made of steel and weighs about 16 pounds
it is a steel hammer, as opposed to hammers made of copper, brass, plastics or rubber. There are manykinds of hammers each with a specific range of use.
A dead 21st fret can be fixed by tapping it down with a brass hammer.
You can fix a broken fuel gauge by using a brass hammer, brass punch, and standard socket set. You will first need to remove the fuse.
A gunsmith used a hammer, chisels, anvil, handfile, and a furnace. For material they would use iron, wood, metal, silver, coal, and brass
It is pressed on so, you need to press it off or heat it up with a torch and tap it off.
ken-do stick, steel chair, ring bell, sledge hammer, ladder, table, guitar, shillelagh, brass knuckles
Remove the old pins with Vise-Grips and drive the new pins in carefully with a brass hammer (to prevent distorting them).
A heavy hammer, often made of brass or copper, that's used to drive large roll-pins, bearings and similar things into place. My favorite one is actually a heavy steel body with two large polyurethane heads, but I don't think they are sold any more.