• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Mayers Bros. 50# power hammer, $5500, Battleford SK

YYCHM

YYCHM

(Craig)
Premium Member
www.kijiji.ca

Kijiji - Buy, Sell & Save with Canada's #1 Local Classifieds

Visit Kijiji Classifieds to buy, sell, or trade almost anything! New and used items, cars, real estate, jobs, services, vacation rentals and more virtually anywhere.
www.kijiji.ca www.kijiji.ca

80d20727-4e3c-4e47-b234-5f395b94c702
 
DPittman said:
Man I'd give my left nut to be 35 again.
Click to expand...
Me too. The best time of my life. Strong as a bull and ready to rock.
There was an 83 year old Russian woman lived across the street from us, born in Brazil, and she outlived 4 husbands. And one day she says, "How old you?" I puffed up and said, "I'm 35" She says, "Huh, 3/4 of a man..." I should have left well enough alone.....but I said "What the heck, do you mean by that?"
So she says, "When you 35 you strong like bull, not so smart. When you 40, not so strong, but smarter, then full man."
 
Crosche said:
A word of caution, it appears that one of the toggle arms has been broken and judging by the crazy angle on the top die, the dies are most likely worn out.
Click to expand...
Good eye on the weld repair of the toggle.

Sorta need eyes on, or at least, better pictures, to tell if the dies or their mounts are boogered. That top die does look like it's a bit weird, but it may have been someones idea of a perfect draw die... Dunno.

A fella could do worse than spend a bunch of time educating hisself on the finer details, The Sudemeier (spelling?) book is pretty good, and there is a lot of knowledge out there on the interwebs, some of it even accurate! :)
 
Crosche said:
A word of caution, it appears that one of the toggle arms has been broken and judging by the crazy angle on the top die, the dies are most likely worn out.
Click to expand...
Ah! a discerning eye! I didn't notice, so it '"looked good to me" shows what a rookie I am about hand forging!
 
trevj said:
Good eye on the weld repair of the toggle.

Sorta need eyes on, or at least, better pictures, to tell if the dies or their mounts are boogered. That top die does look like it's a bit weird, but it may have been someones idea of a perfect draw die... Dunno.

A fella could do worse than spend a bunch of time educating hisself on the finer details, The Sudemeier (spelling?) book is pretty good, and there is a lot of knowledge out there on the interwebs, some of it even accurate! :)
Click to expand...
The top die on my Little Giant had the same angle ground on it. I was told that the dies were modified like that to sharpen plow shares. According to the original specs, the dies can only wear down 20% of their height.
Mine were we'll under that and I couldn't get the hammer timed properly until I made new ones.
The only other concern I would have is the condition of the babbitt bearings. Repouring those is big job.
 
Crosche said:
The top die on my Little Giant had the same angle ground on it. I was told that the dies were modified like that to sharpen plow shares. According to the original specs, the dies can only wear down 20% of their height.
Mine were we'll under that and I couldn't get the hammer timed properly until I made new ones.
The only other concern I would have is the condition of the babbitt bearings. Repouring those is big job.
Click to expand...
Based on some of the butchery I have seen done to old power hammers, the babbit scares me far less than the pin holes in the hammer toggle links.

Dies can be got as replacement parts or made, if one has the capabilities in house. Seems to me that there are far fewer folks out there capable of doing a decent weld up of badly worn holes, and subsequently placing useable holes and pins, back in their proper location.

Been a while since I poked through my copy of Sid Suedemeier's (I checked the spelling! LOL!) book, but he laid out some pretty good repairs for adapting to when the dies ate their way into either the hammer or anvil.

FWIW, I have a Jardine, a license built clone of the 25 pound Little Giant, that was produced in Winnipeg. A gift from a dying friend, some years back. It came with some new dies, a new spare spring, and a few other spares, but I do need to build a grenade screen for it and mount up the motor I have sourced for it as well.
 
trevj said:
Based on some of the butchery I have seen done to old power hammers, the babbit scares me far less than the pin holes in the hammer toggle links.

Dies can be got as replacement parts or made, if one has the capabilities in house. Seems to me that there are far fewer folks out there capable of doing a decent weld up of badly worn holes, and subsequently placing useable holes and pins, back in their proper location.

Been a while since I poked through my copy of Sid Suedemeier's (I checked the spelling! LOL!) book, but he laid out some pretty good repairs for adapting to when the dies ate their way into either the hammer or anvil.

FWIW, I have a Jardine, a license built clone of the 25 pound Little Giant, that was produced in Winnipeg. A gift from a dying friend, some years back. It came with some new dies, a new spare spring, and a few other spares, but I do need to build a grenade screen for it and mount up the motor I have sourced for it as well.
Click to expand...
Cool! I have a Jardine as well. Had to replace everything from the pitman arm down.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top