[TheForge] Repairing power hammer dies

[Ries Niemi]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Cameron Stoker wrote:

> On a set of little giant dies I've repaired chips by tig welding the 
> void using an uncoiled spring (~1/8" diam wire) as filler material. 
> I'd guess most springs are 5160 -ish in composition. I've had 
> surprisingly little cracking of these repairs.

The currently available Little Giant dies are 4140.
http://www.littlegianthammer.com/used.html


Ries Niemi
Industrial Artist

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