Cast hammer?

Neighbor just bought an Underwood mix-master with an unmarked blued barrel, set in a parkerized gas piston housing (topic for another post) and it had a parkerized, unmarked Type II hammer that appears to have a faint casting line on it. Did the military evert use cast hammers? I know they used cast front sights and recoil plates for replacement parts after the war.

Thanks in advance.

Post WWII they did experiment with cast parts. I believe Springfield was doing that. IIRC, they did make hammers.

IMR,
Do you mean a Type III hammer?

I can recall seeing Cast Recoilplates, Triggers, Front Sights and Type III Hammers.

Don't know this seller but happened upon his auction today. Look at pic #3, I believe these are Cast Type III Hammers.

Note the Casting Holes.
Anything like your neighbors find?

M1 Carbine Bolt and parts lot | eBay

Cheers,
Charlie-Painter777

The Chinese, or somebody, recently made some cast type 2 hammers.

I'd have to check. It is a non-dogleg. It was in an old DCM carbine that was re-barreled years ago with a turned down 1903A3 barrel, swedged into the gas block.

War Baby! page 386, bottom left column. Quality Hardware; Hammer, Type B, variation 2 (cast). Used on approximately 4,000 late production carbines. The next page also mentions a late production cast trigger for QH. There was also a CC news letter a while back with these parts mentioned and illustrated. Both items are marked Q.A.

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Originally Posted by bobg

The Chinese, or somebody, recently made some cast type 2 hammers.

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I know George at Riverbank Armory had Chinese cast dog leg hammers about 7 or 8 years ago. Looked like they used dirty motor oil to soak them in, then some smeared old cosmolene.