[TheForge] Repairing power hammer dies

[Demon Buddha]

Dicksplint at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 06/06/2006 10:57:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> rniemi at fidalgo.net writes:
> A new set of dies is only a couple of hundred bucks, and they are 
> something like 3" thick. So even if you take an inch off, at my rate it 
> will take at least 5 to 10 years before I take em down so much I need 
> new ones.
> I'd be careful with your approach an inch might be to much.  If the dies get 
> to short you'll knock the ram out of the ram guide housing?  BIG TROUBLE! 
	
	Thos would seem to imply that at the bottom of its stroke with new 
dies, the ram is hanging on with but an inch of metal.  I find that case 
to be highly doubtful.  Do you mean something else?