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The Rhino Hammer, a Tool for Quickly Removing Laser-Cut Parts from the Sheet

Fun to watch, but has to be murder on the joints

By Rain Noe - August 31, 2021

in Tools & Craft

The Rhino Hammer is an effective but brutish air-powered tool for removing tabbed parts from a sheet of laser-cut steel. Here's how:

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Here it is on slightly larger parts:

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And knocking parts out of a 1/4"-thick grade 50 steel sheet:

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As someone whose hands go numb when using a sander for too long—yes, even with the silly vibro-gloves on—I cannot imagine using this tool at length. I understand that they made it handheld for convenience's sake, but I do not envy that worker, or at least I wouldn't in ten years' time. I'd love to see some ergonomics-minded design firm tackle this.

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Nathan D.

3 years ago

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This is clearly for smaller fab shops that don't have an endless stack of sheets to process every day that would justify the purchase of a large, room-sized machine that can do this on its own. They're working over a Husky cart so a $60,000 table is probably out of the question.

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Juan Cano

3 years ago

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That does not look comfortable. I recall years ago visiting a printing plan where they did cereal boxes and they used a pneumatic hammer to separate the waste cardboard from the 3 ft tall stacks of printed and die cut boxes.

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