[TheForge] Re-facing hammers & flatters

[Ray Miller]

Hey Scott,
You could try an old power plant service engineer's trick for filling 
small gouges in horizontal joints on large steam turbines.
As you could imagine the repair of a gouge in the sealing face on a 3600 
psi, 1000 F steam turbine casing is fairly critical. You would hate to 
be around THAT steam leak.

What we would do is use hi temp silver solder and silver solder in the 
gouge. We wouldn't introduce enough heat stress to be a problem and 
solver solder can be easily worked down. I'm not sure how it would hold 
up over time from impact use, but if in time it needed to be resoldered 
tha wouldn't be a crime.

Ray
Cincinnati



edge@edginton.net wrote:

>Hi Scott!
>
>On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Scott Lane wrote:
>
>>Greetings,
>>	I have just acquired a flatter that is in nice shape except for some 
>>rather nice gouges on the face.  It is hardened and just makes my belts 
>>throw nice pretty sparks without doing much to the face.  What is the best 
>>way to re-face these?  Anneal, grind then re-harden?
>>
>
>Unless you can get better belts; annealing, smoothing on your belt
>sander and rehardening and tempering is your best alternative.
>
>edge
>



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