[TheForge] The Mother Load/Swage blocks

[Roger Degner]

This is only my personal opinion but the more holes in the block the lighter
it gets plus you save parent material so you get more blocks from the same
amount of iron

When I made my Peter Wrong swage I did the opposite and put in bowl
depressions so I did not have to work as hard welding up different sized
holes.

Roger R Degner

ries> But really - what the heck do you do with all those holes in the 
ries> old ones?

I've used swage block holes of different sizes numerous times for driving
pins/shafts/bearings/whatever out of hubs/sleeves/whatever is holding them.
Same for the sow with even bigger holes.  (I don't have a press.)  Also for
drifting holes in hot work when the punch or drift is too big for the hardy
hole.

Also for bending, although way less often.  The only place where it really
saved the day, it was the sow -- way heavier and more stable than my little
swage block -- and a 3" hole, used to bend down the claws on big (ca. 100#)
5-claw graplins all in one heat.  By the same toke, I can imagine that those
narrow rectangular holes in the eBay swage block might be handy for bending
biggish flat bar.


- Mike

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