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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    It would have been a idle to turn up on a lathe but I made it before I got my lathe. It was rough cut with a TS and then I used a #40 grit belt on an upside down belt sander
    Hence my Avatar quote..

    Blue and white apron brigade - are you a chef?

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    Quote Originally Posted by adbuch View Post
    Hi Jim,
    Here is a hammer I made that has removable ends. The 4140 alloy steel body is bored on each end to accept the stems, which are each secured with a single set screw. This particular hammer is actually for sheet metal shaping, and the removable ends are actually CP dies used for metal shaping. I manufacture 13 different die shapes in both black 6/6 nylon and 4140 Heat Treated alloy steel. If I were just installing flat hammer faces then I would make the stems a press fit into the body. I use this method for some of the specialty hammer dies I make for Pullmax and Planishing Hammers.

    You can see some of this tooling here:
    David

    http://www.desert-hybrids.com/id71.html

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    Very very nice David.
    Cheers Jim
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    David,

    Over here butchers wear blue & white aprons.

    Ken

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    Quote Originally Posted by adbuch View Post
    Blue and white apron brigade - are you a chef?
    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".

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    Quote Originally Posted by adbuch View Post
    Hi Jim,
    Here is a hammer I made that has removable ends. The 4140 alloy steel body is bored on each end to accept the stems, which are each secured with a single set screw. This particular hammer is actually for sheet metal shaping, and the removable ends are actually CP dies used for metal shaping. I manufacture 13 different die shapes in both black 6/6 nylon and 4140 Heat Treated alloy steel. If I were just installing flat hammer faces then I would make the stems a press fit into the body. I use this method for some of the specialty hammer dies I make for Pullmax and Planishing Hammers.

    You can see some of this tooling here:
    David

    http://www.desert-hybrids.com/id71.html

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    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".
    Thanks Bob! I was not sure what it meant - so I Googled it and they said Chef. In in case - very nice job!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ropetangler View Post
    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.
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toggy View Post
    David,

    Over here butchers wear blue & white aprons.

    Ken
    Ken - thanks for clearing that up for me.
    David

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    [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.

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    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

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    Lead faced hammers dont rebound

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    Quote Originally Posted by adbuch View Post
    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
    Man I'd love to work in your shop, all the fantastic tooling and COOL cars.
    Kryn
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    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.

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    Great looking workshop David.
    Cheers Jim
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