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Originally Posted by William Pays Bas
Good evening,
As mentioned in my introduction, I have restored a lot of Peugeot's in the last 3,5 decades and the last ones with/by a well known car restorer in Holland: Martin Dijkhof (website: http://www.autorestauraties.nl/ )
Martin has become a dear friend and I am helping him with finding some specific metal shaping machines, which were used by the old French and Italian coachbuilders.
I have seen that there are a lot of metal-shaping enthousiasts actif on this forum and I hope that someone can help us with the following question:
We are looking for a so called "Maglio Helve" Hammer, that is not a "Power Hammer" like a Eckold, but these machines have a long arm so that you can "hammer" a bigger sheet metal plate for, by example, a roof or bonnet.
Does anyone know the brand name(s)/ producer(s) from the Maglio's and/or where we can find such a machine ?
May also be a machine which must be restored, this is not a problem for Martin Dijkhof as he has restored the most of his own machines.
Distance is not a problem, we have found last year in France also a pretty rare Pfister "Three Olives" machine:
https://i62.servimg.com/u/f62/19/44/04/36/pfiste13.jpg
Many thanks in advance !
William
Holland
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Hi William,
Welcome to the forum.
You have provided some wonderful photos. I think you will get some nice responses here as the Helve has been popular in the US for a number of years.
I do know that a helve may be designed and built to have nearly the same characteristics as the Maglios, as an engineer friend of mine made the calculations, did some experiments, and built an example that worked very well.