[TheForge] Repairing power hammer dies

[Grant Marcoux]

John:  I have seen dies resurfaced nicely on a horizontal mill, using a
fly-cutter.  Grant
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JOHN CHOBRDA wrote:
> Gentleman,
>
>             I am in the process of rebuilding a little giant hammer that I
> recently acquired.  One of my problems is that some where the hammer was
> used I guess for texturing, as the dies (upper and lower) have a bunch of
> small shallow depressions in them. Has any one any experience resurfacing
> dies. I do not want to grind them because some of the dimples are fairly
> deep. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

	Just fill them.  I suppose you could use a hardface rod, but I don't
think it would be necessary.  The dies are probably 4140 or similar for
toughness.  They don't have to be very hard.  Maybe 7018 would suffice?
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