[TheForge] Power Hammers

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

On 12/19/2010 10:35 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> With a US rep at least you would be pretty certan to get the hammer and not
> have it get stuck in customs. You would also have some place to contact for
> parts if needed.  It's good to know how your equipment works, but I would
> have perfered not to have to fix it first thing.
>
> I'm sure if the market for forging hammers was big enough Harbor Freight
> would be offering them.   I see they have English wheels now, so they may be
> moving into more metal working equipment that a blacksmith would be
> interested in. Maybe fly presses someday too.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
Harbor Freight tends to add and drop things from their catalog in a 
pretty random way.   And since everything is house branded it makes it 
hard to get parts, though most of the parts are interchangeable with 
other house brand Chinese goods.    I have had a number of Harbor 
Freight items on a long term wish list -- Bandsaw blade welder,  
hydraulic  gear puller, chipping hammer, and heavy duty pin welder and 
numerous machine tools including all of the accessories for the little  
7x10 minilathe, all of which have been dropped from the catalog.   I am 
a little leary of buying anything that I can't replace cheaply or 
manufacture the parts for easily.   I have a lifetime warranty metal 
shear from them that the blade failed on and is no longer offered by them.

Charles