[TheForge] Stempeling info needed

[rsmuck]

I have heard this called STAKING?
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From: "ries" <ries at riesniemi.com>
To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored 
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Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Stempeling info needed


>I have seen this done in a variety of fields, from machining to tool
> maintanence- just never heard it called Stempeling.
> Might be a regional thing- The United States is actually about 5 or 7
> different countries, with different regional dialects, traditions, and
> techniques.
>
> It is common for machinists to do this on quick and dirty fixes, but
> usually it more a mechanics trick. I have seen it on auto parts, that
> were repaired by shade tree mechanics.
> Machinists will usually go for a more precise fit, and do a heat/cold
> shrink.
>
> Carpenters used to do this to adjust the angle of a dropped framing
> square.
>
> I think its one of those "tricks of the trade" that is seldom
> officially acknowledged- I have a pretty big library of books on
> blacksmithing, machining, fabricating, welding, and metalshaping, and
> I cant recall seeing it in any of em, but most good metalworkers I
> know intuitively use this trick from time to time.
>
> ries
>
> On Apr 23, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>
> While doing some repair work on my power hammer yesterday I was
> concerned
> about the loose fit of a couple parts that I needed to weld.  Being
> that the
> positioning of these parts is critical to the opperation of the hammer I
> didn't want to leave the alignment to chance.  So I stempeled the
> inner part
> to tighten up the fit. It worked very well and the parts had to be
> driven
> together which removed any doubt about the positioning.
>
> I was talking to friend about the project later and was surprised to
> find
> out that he had never heard of stempeling. So last night I spent quite
> a bit
> of time searching the web for more information on stempeling.  To my
> surprise I didn't find anything on it.  The closest I came was a site
> in the
> Neatherlands where they were doing decorative stamping. It thurns out
> that
> stempel is the Duch word for stamp and almost every link took me to a
> sites
> in the Netherlands.
>
> So do any of you know of a site that talks about using a series of punch
> marks to tighten up the fit on parts?  I was under the impression that
> it
> was a common practice in gunsmithing.  Do I have the right word for the
> process?  Maybe it is known by something else.
>
> My project is done, but I would like more information on the process for
> future use.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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