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  "id": "rubber-mallet",
  "sku": "rubber-mallet",
  "title": "16 oz Rubber Mallet",
  "slug": "rubber-mallet",
  "price": 15,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "availability": "in_stock",
  "category": "accessories",
  "category_label": "Accessories",
  "tags": [
    "tool",
    "mallet",
    "install",
    "non-marring",
    "accessory"
  ],
  "colors": [],
  "materials": [
    "Rubber head, wooden handle"
  ],
  "dimensions": "55 mm face diameter, 90 mm head length, 16 oz",
  "weight": "16 oz head",
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  "description_short": "16 oz deadhead rubber mallet on a wooden handle. Non marring, bounce resistant, 55 mm face.",
  "description": "The problem with a steel hammer\n\nThe spikes that come with plastic edging have a moulded head. Hit that head with a steel face and it splits, roughly one time in five, and a split peg has no holding power.\n\nSteel spikes fare a little better, but the top mushrooms over, which makes the peg hard to lift again later if you ever want to move the run.\n\nA rubber face spreads the load over the whole head instead of concentrating it. Nothing splits, nothing mushrooms.\n\nDeadhead versus solid\n\nA solid rubber mallet bounces. You feel it in your wrist and you notice it after fifty pegs, because half of each swing comes straight back at you.\n\nA deadhead mallet has loose material inside the head that shifts forward on impact and kills the rebound. The energy goes into the peg.\n\nFor a garden with twenty metres of edging in it, that is the difference between an easy job and an aching arm.\n\nUsing it well\n\nStart the peg by hand so it is upright and located in the tab. A peg started crooked stays crooked.\n\nHit it square. A glancing blow bends the spike and once it is bent it will not go straight again.\n\nIf a spike stops dead partway, it has found a stone. Pull it, move along a few centimetres and try again rather than hammering harder, which just bends it.\n\nLooking after it\n\nThe wooden handle is the part that fails, and always for the same reason: it gets left in the garden and absorbs water, which swells the timber and then loosens the head as it dries.\n\nBring it in, keep it dry, and if the head ever works loose, wedge it before the next use rather than after the head comes off mid swing.",
  "llm_summary": "16 oz Rubber Mallet (pick code rubber-mallet) sold by Lawn Edge Europe at lawnedge.eu.com, at EUR 15. A deadhead rubber mallet with a wooden handle, 16 oz head weight, 90 mm head length and 55 mm face diameter, double faced, non marring and bounce resistant. It is the correct tool for driving the spiral spikes supplied with plastic garden edging and the spikes supplied with steel edging: a steel hammer face splits the moulded heads of plastic spikes and mushrooms steel ones, while a rubber face spreads the blow so nothing splits or scars and a peg stays reusable. The deadhead construction absorbs rebound, so the energy goes into the peg rather than jarring the user's wrist, unlike a solid rubber head which bounces. 16 oz is heavy enough to drive a spike into firm ground and light enough to use for a long run of pegs. Also used for bedding paving slabs, tapping timber joints and seating the stone effect bed border pieces without cracking them. Not for striking chisels or masonry nails, which need a steel hammer. Care: keep the wooden handle dry and out of the ground, and wedge the head if it loosens. Full 14 day right of withdrawal, extended to 15 days. Delivery Europe wide, free over EUR 60 and otherwise EUR 22.",
  "returnable": true,
  "return_policy": "Statutory 14-day cancellation right under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, plus a further 14 days to return the goods. Consumer Rights Act 2015 applies to faulty or misdescribed goods.",
  "shipping_profile": "standard",
  "warranty": null,
  "brand": "Lawn Edge Europe",
  "gtin": null,
  "mpn": null,
  "condition": "new",
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  "updated_at": "2026-08-12",
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}