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John Larson 
God is in the details--Mies Van de Rowe (sp?), architect
Prior to Boones hammer-in I had been working on the adjuster bolts for the 50's v-guides. When I messed with it today I found I had not adjusted one side so that the tup was sloppy in the guides down at Boones. I was unbolting the tup's bottom octagonal wafer to convert the machine to right-hander configuration from the left-hander set up (that I had used to sell a machine to a left-handed smith). The torque on the wrench caused the tup to twist a smidgeon. What the? Now it is corrected.
BTW, when I turned the tup bottom wafer and the sow block's octagon, the dies were very close to aligned. Precision machining makes results like this happen. I loosened the wedge on the sow block and tapped it about 1/8" and reightened. Ditto the bottom die in its receiver block. Sum total elapsed time? Maybe a minute. Classic dovetails and wedges are truly the quick way to attach dies.
I spent the better part of the day machining pieces of 4140 for a production run of die sets for the smaller hammers. Using the bandsaw as well. Getting a work routine established for faster production.
My truck cost me $800 today. New front axle and bearings on one side, plus drive shaft u-joints to the rear axle. Yikes!!!!
Prior to Boones hammer-in I had been working on the adjuster bolts for the 50's v-guides. When I messed with it today I found I had not adjusted one side so that the tup was sloppy in the guides down at Boones. I was unbolting the tup's bottom octagonal wafer to convert the machine to right-hander configuration from the left-hander set up (that I had used to sell a machine to a left-handed smith). The torque on the wrench caused the tup to twist a smidgeon. What the? Now it is corrected.
BTW, when I turned the tup bottom wafer and the sow block's octagon, the dies were very close to aligned. Precision machining makes results like this happen. I loosened the wedge on the sow block and tapped it about 1/8" and reightened. Ditto the bottom die in its receiver block. Sum total elapsed time? Maybe a minute. Classic dovetails and wedges are truly the quick way to attach dies.
I spent the better part of the day machining pieces of 4140 for a production run of die sets for the smaller hammers. Using the bandsaw as well. Getting a work routine established for faster production.
My truck cost me $800 today. New front axle and bearings on one side, plus drive shaft u-joints to the rear axle. Yikes!!!!
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