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Old 12-07-2017, 01:14 PM
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When I was doing work for Griswold & Co, Berkeley, CA, in 1981-2, he was restoring 4 of the 250 GTO's. Their metal dept. had built up a fabbed version of the Maglio, full size with what looked like a 4ft throat. Since it was dusty and their Wheel was not, I asked about the Maglio and was told that they could not get it to work correctly.
Later on, I learned from Ken Webber Engineering that Ken had spent time calculating and testing input speeds, leverage, and arm designs and had finally come up with a very useable Helve/Maglio.
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Old 12-07-2017, 04:55 PM
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Thank you guys for the additional info !

Much appreciated to see and learn more about this wunderful machines !
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Old 12-08-2017, 06:10 AM
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If you are looking for a Maglio Helve i would suggest you try contacting "PARXJKS" either on here or youtube iirc he is the grandson of the parx hammer inventor. As i recall he was trying to track down original hammers from his relative - i would have thought he would have found Maglio in the process too. i think he is based in france(?)
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Old 12-09-2017, 09:11 AM
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Thanks Paul, I have also found a video (+/- 1930) from the assembly of the in Germany built PARX-Federhammer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXOTWPu1E4A
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Old 12-12-2017, 06:53 AM
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It took some searching, but I had contact with the grandson of the company "Johann Kunz Sohne from Kronberg" in Germany, which built the PARX machines !

Nice to find out, that there is also a German built equivalent from the Italian "Maglio Helve" Hammers.

The PARX 49/00 is such a machine (availabe in several versions), which they made a couple of hundred from and were used by Mercedes, Karmann, Magirus etc.



This is a video from a working PARX "Spann-, Polier- and Treibhämmer" machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qnaOWcvmoY


A version mounted on a wall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWWuS7m91H0


And another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRAtB4p-Q18



Some printscreens:













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Old 12-12-2017, 04:08 PM
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Thanks for posting that William. What does the foot control change, speed, stroke or both? I liked the wall mounted one best.
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Old 12-12-2017, 06:47 PM
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Steve, i seem to recall this is a fixed speed, fixed eccentric stroke machine. the foot pedal is operating a hammer limiting buffer, in doing so it alters the "hit"...that's what i remember anyway could be wrong
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Old 12-12-2017, 06:53 PM
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No i'm wrong! it's altering the crank axis and hence the eccentricity/stroke.
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Old 02-24-2018, 01:11 PM
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Good news !

A couple of days ago we were contacted by the grandson of the PARX company "Johann Kunz Sohne from Kronberg" and he knew a PARX 49/00 machine in Germany for sale !

So, yesterday Martin took a quick trip to Germany and brought back this German version of a Maglio Helve Hammer, which is in a perfect working condition !

Everyone will understand that we are very happy with this find, see photos underneath:



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Old 12-13-2018, 04:28 PM
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I thought I would revive this thread and see if the Parx hammer has been put to work and how it is performing.

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