Iron Falcon 72

Cast iron can be brazed or it can be OA welded with the proper filler rod or it can be arcwelded with the proper rod. It is not for the faint of heart. If there is enough beef in the area you might be able to drill and tap holes to bolt another tab in. How much stress is there on the tabs? Check YouTube for some videos and do a general Google for cast iron repair.

This post is a year and a half old!

Most likely cast. Good for trotline weights or put them in the legs of your anvilstand for added weight.

Hey, if nothing else it's good steel to make into something completely different.

Looks like a great buy for someone in Britain. No minimum.

How did you make the wing? They look so delicate!

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Zsartell, Please check your PMs. Thank you

You might be right but aren't those grooves around the perimeter where the seals would have been?

I use WD-40 and the oily rag technique. When I keep up with it I don't get any rust.

Very well crafted!

As I recall when one of the Gunter young'uns was showing us at the Saltfork conference this year how he made his repousse hammers he punched a couple of small dimples along the centerline even with each end of the desired location. He also did the "hammer, spin it, hammer" technique described above.

How do you like the wood base? Do you think it makes it quieter?

What is the conbutcher used for?

Just to clarify, only the clamp is fixed. The pipe w/the bumper on the end slides up and down and is held in position with the clamp. It didn't seem to move when Robb Gunter was using it. But, it's certainly good to keep an eye on it.

Does anyone have a good source for one? Is the HF version any good?

Is the "modified" a swingarm type rather than a straight up and down? If so the safety shown in my previous post is designed for it. One simply adjusts the pipe up or down to provide hand/finger clearance but still hit the tool.

Here's what it looks like. It workss on a swingarm. You'd have to have some kind of arm sticking out to catch it on a vertical drop.

How about simple curiosity?

They may have been used in a casting factory.

Thanks. I'll take a look.

Does anyone know of any other videos or books on using the treadle hammer?

Good idea, but I have nothing to compare to know if it affects it.

I think that's probably a good idea as well but I bought a used swingarm type just to get going. I tend to get to involved in making "perfect" tools and not enough in making stuff. I just want to know how to adjust and use this one.

The first picture is taken from the front. Notice that the hammer is not directly inline with the anvil. I've checked and the hammer is inline with the back support. The second picture shows how the anvil is attached. It actually sits in the cup and is not welded to it. The cup is welded in 4 places around the base. If it's worth it, it would be fairly easy to break the welds and reweld it so that the hammer and anvil are more inline. They're about 1/4" to 3/8" out. Is it worth the effort to align them more closely? hammer & anvil alignment picture by imsnowman - Photobucket anvil cup picture by imsnowman - Photobucket