Necessity is the truely the mother of invention.  My kids keep breaking our oly hammers during practice.  I've only been coaching for 7 years now, but this is the first time they've gone through hammers this fast.  In 3 weeks, they've broken 3 hammers.  Seems the swivel heads keep breaking off of them, which is strange, because they aren't cheapo hammers. 

Anyway, I had this one sitting in my garage/work shop for a little while, trying to think of an effective way to fix it, at least for a practice hammer.  Last night it came to me while watching Family Guy.  Guess that's the advantage of having ADD.  I got an Ibolt that could withstand the force of throwing the hammer and not bend out of shape.  Then, I got a washer, put it between the base of the hammer insert and a bolt.  Added two more washers and then another bolt to tighten it all, so that the Ibolt wouldn't unscrew, but was still able to swivel.  It looks kind of ugly, but it will work... at least I hope it will.

JI

I love that pic man, there are washers and nuts everywhere. I am sure that kind of inventiveness drove many of us on the board here when we got started in the games.

For those of you who have never tried to get the spindle out of a badly smashed olympic hammer let me tell you it is a pain.  That big eye bolt will save you a lot of headaches.

Nice one!  I think I could actually rig something up like that.  That would be awesome.