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Old 01-23-2017, 09:20 PM
John Buchtenkirch John Buchtenkirch is offline
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Originally Posted by crystallographic View Post
The "hammermen" I have asked (Leo Berger, Jack Hagemann, etc) about this all said, "about 6 hours."
I’d say if it took them 6 hours they were probably talking about putting a new die in the hammer where they had to spend time dressing the face to get the hit point correct. Unlike Pullmaxes and CP planishing hammers very few power hammers had their arms true to each other so then instead of having a round radially stretching hit point you ended up with a quarter moon hit point over to one side that stretches mostly directionally. Depending on how bad the hit point was could cause it to take quite a bit of time to correct. Also they might have had to change the shim pack under the anvil to raise or lower the die, not really a big deal but still more time in setup. No one said hammer work was easy . ~ John Buchtenkirch
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