[TheForge] Re: Advice? Air hammer die and anvil fit-up

[Mike Spencer]

Thanks all for the discussion and suggestions.  I'm going to true up
the anvil surface just a little better, then shim the floor of the
dovetail with 1/16" copper.

me> Be a shame to machine the die cockeyed to match the anvil.

xlch58> The real shame would be machining every die you ever make for
xlch58> it cockeyed.

Yes, indeed.

I'm not looking forward to making dies.  They're huge.  (Okay, okay,
the 30 ton steam hammer guys can stop snickering now. :-) I have this
idea that is just vaporware and blue sky at the moment.  The dies I
have are half flat, half flat bevel -- industrial tapering dies I
guess -- about 8"x10" and not very versatile as they are.  If I could
get dovetails machined in the dies to match smaller ones sold for
currently produced hammers, my dies would become sow blocks and would
remail permanently in place.  I could buy one pair of flat/round combi
dies and then make others.

Lots to do, though, before I even try to decide if that's brilliant or
stupid.


- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
                                 
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