Results 16 to 29 of 29
Thread: Acetal Faced Machinist Hammer
-
3rd Jun 2019, 04:14 PM #16Intermediate Member
- Join Date
- May 2019
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Posts
- 46
-
3rd Jun 2019, 05:37 PM #17
-
3rd Jun 2019, 06:15 PM #18Golden Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2004
- Location
- Kyabram. Vic
- Posts
- 632
David,
Over here butchers wear blue & white aprons.
Ken
-
3rd Jun 2019, 06:17 PM #19Member: Blue and white apron brigade
- Join Date
- Feb 2006
- Location
- Perth
- Posts
- 7,183
I'm not even a cook. Despite my best efforts at burning pretty much everything, sticking stuff to the bottoms of pans and turning out various versions of overly spice beige goop SWMBO (who BTW is a very good cook but doesn't like doing it) still eats what I make an occasionally even says "that's not bad".
-
3rd Jun 2019, 07:06 PM #20Diamond Member
- Join Date
- Oct 2008
- Location
- N.W.Tasmania
- Posts
- 1,407
All very nice looking work David. I know very little about panel bashing, but your tooling looks like jewellery, quite unlike the stuff that I used during my working life. They were more the standard 7, 10 and 14 Lb hammers, used for banging in wedges on face shovel buckets and the like. Welcome to the forum too, you'll make some good friends here with this bunch of blokes. Cheers,
Rob.
-
3rd Jun 2019, 07:34 PM #21Intermediate Member
- Join Date
- May 2019
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Posts
- 46
-
3rd Jun 2019, 07:58 PM #22Intermediate Member
- Join Date
- May 2019
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Posts
- 46
Thanks Rob. It's a long story - but I did not start out doing cnc machining. I did get my first lathe when I was about 33 years old. It's a Craftsman 12" x 36". Made for Sears by Atlas back in those days. I bought it second hand. The original owner bought it brand new in about 1960. I still have it, but have not used it in quite a while. I also have a Burke Millrite mill bought at the same time from the same seller. These both belonged to a retired mechanical engineer who worked at Hughes Aircraft (now Raytheon) and had passed away. I had built some cars for his son and purchased these along with some other tools from the widow.
The 3rd photo is of me in 2003. This is in back of my shop unloading a 1932 Ford Coupe body/frame I had just traveled to California to buy. I still have it - need to get to work on it. The last photo is the "Kiwi" with his 1929 Ford hot rod truck. He was in Arizona when the photo was taken (around 1998) and is now back in New Zealand.
I just took these photos this evening here in my office.
David
20190603_013621.jpg 20190603_013638.jpg 20190603_014012.jpg 20190603_014016.jpg
-
3rd Jun 2019, 08:29 PM #23Intermediate Member
- Join Date
- May 2019
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Posts
- 46
-
3rd Jun 2019, 08:46 PM #24Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- Jul 2006
- Location
- Athelstone, SA 5076
- Posts
- 4,255
[QUOTE=jack620;1951524]Thanks eskimo. I did a bit of reading online and the consensus was it's a nightmare to tap it. I'm going to buy a scuba diver's weight and have a go at casting it.
When i first tried I had an old alloy faced hammer with a missing end. No idea what it had..alloy brass or whatever. It had a 12mm stub on the face. I made a mold and just poured lead into...3 times i think...none of them worked...the lead always came loose.
Then i thought about tinning it...and it hasnt come off yet.
Getting a bit mushroomed now so wont be long before it needs to be melted off and redone.
-
3rd Jun 2019, 08:54 PM #25Intermediate Member
- Join Date
- May 2019
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Posts
- 46
Nice!! I remember the days when most of the British sports cars (Jags, Austin Healeys, MGs, etc.) came with a very nice hammer for knocking off the "knock-off" spinners that held the wheels onto the splines. Sometimes they were aluminum, brass, or maybe even lead. These were great because the soft face of the hammer did not mar the chrome plating on he spinners. I like the lead idea. Just don't try to grind or sand it.
David
-
3rd Jun 2019, 09:04 PM #26Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- Jul 2006
- Location
- Athelstone, SA 5076
- Posts
- 4,255
Lead faced hammers dont rebound
-
3rd Jun 2019, 11:26 PM #27Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- May 2011
- Location
- Murray Bridge S Aust.
- Age
- 71
- Posts
- 5,945
-
4th Jun 2019, 12:21 PM #28Senior Member
- Join Date
- May 2019
- Location
- Picnic Point, Sydney
- Age
- 77
- Posts
- 312
DSCN0424.jpgYou guys go to a lot of trouble with your bashing instruments. These two do me although the lead could probably do with re-melting in to it's original cylindrical shape.
-
6th Jun 2019, 09:59 AM #29
Great looking workshop David.
Similar Threads
-
a hammer
By eskimo in forum METALWORK GENERALReplies: 8Last Post: 22nd Feb 2015, 05:35 PM -
Black acetal leadcrew nuts
By morrisman in forum METALWORK GENERALReplies: 1Last Post: 13th Nov 2013, 09:01 PM -
How big a hammer do you need?
By Michael G in forum METALWORK GENERALReplies: 31Last Post: 24th Nov 2012, 06:22 PM -
Online sources for Acetal 'Delrin' solid rod?
By martrix in forum METALWORK GENERALReplies: 15Last Post: 21st Feb 2010, 01:14 PM -
Delrin or Acetal... where can I buy some?
By Malfie in forum METALWORK GENERALReplies: 3Last Post: 11th Jul 2007, 06:49 PM