1918 Aircraft Rivet Hammer - Restoration (1080p_50fps_H264-128kbit_AAC)

In this video i&restoring an aircraft rivet hammer. This pneumatic rivet hammer was sent to me by one of my subscribers from germany, thank you for that. It&a very cool and unique looking tool, I&never seen this tool before and that&why I decided to restore it and make a video for you guys. I was told that this tool was stored in the basement when they had a flooding, that was probaly the reason why it was rusty and didn&work anymore. I had a few ups and downs during this restoration. The cast of the aluminium handle was very porous and a lot of tiny holes appeared after fine sanding and polishing, also the welding didn&work quite well. I first tried to TIG weld, but that didn&work at all. For the visible steel parts I decided to make them black, for the optic and also as rust protection. My idea was to sandblast those parts to make a nice and even finish, but because I&using very fine glas bead all the small damages in the surface from the rust were still visible. So I had to sand them all away. The bluing worked very well and it makes a nice contrast to the polished parts in my oppinion. The old air fitting was put together out of three different pieces made of brass to get the right thread size. I didn&really liked that option and decided to make a new one. I really wasn&pleased during the restoration just because of the porous cast of the handle and I thought about it for a long time to not even publish the video because of that. But as soon as I tested it after the...