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It probably won't get used much but I do plan on making a new mount & pivot pin for it when time permits. I forget how wide the jaws are, I'll measure tonight.

I picked up this post vise at a car show back in July, to neat to pass up. I finally got around to taking some pictures of it. It has the through hole for the older style mounting bracket and a brazed box. The spring came with it but its missing the mounting bracket. The original pivot pin has been replaced by a carriage bolt at some point in the past as well. Over all the whole thing is in pretty good shape. Lots of small decorative details.

There are different grades & types of uhmw as well.

Demolition hammer chisels

The back jaw swivels to hold wedge shaped pieces. They were make in several styles for different tasks.

I've downloaded it before so it is possible. This download link should work: http://books.google.com/books/download/Transactions_Manchester_Association_of_E.pdf?id=ROY0AAAAMAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U3fGyfv0Pf6TDMOvjpfMxlxMXv3Pg It will ask you to answer one of those jumbled up word questions to make sure your a real person and not a computer program.

Those pins can be a real pain to get out sometimes.

Usually that "bolt" is a tapered pin. At least it was on my two vises with pivoting rear jaws. I think mine are Prentices.

From google books you can save it as a PDF onto your computer and print it from there. Not sure if there is another way. Click on the drop down next to the gear shaped icon to find the save as PDF option. The file for the Massy paper is about 3.5 MB in size.

I'm pretty sure the orifice in the TS4000 in in the black handle body and not under the tip in the tube that transports the air and gas from the top of the handle body to the torch tip. Picture of vanes in tip: http://www.newmetalworker.com/reviews/graphics/tools/bernzomaticrvu/swrlvanes250.jpg Picture of tube if tip is removed: http://www.newmetalworker.com/reviews/graphics/tools/bernzomaticrvu/ignitr250.jpg

I have the same/similar torch. I use it all the time to heat small things up and start my grill. One of my favorite general shop tools. Check the burner for bug/spider nests. I went to use mine last spring and it wouldn't work right. A spider had made several webs/nests inside the tube. I cleaned it out and good as new! Be careful using it as a burner for a small forge. If the gas tube gets to hot the insulation on the wire for the spark starter will melt and it will ground out before making the spark to light the gas. Its kind of a pain to take it apart to fix the wire.

If you can't open the books a guy I work with says you maybe able to see them through a US proxy server.

The paper and figures were links from google books. I just checked into it and google says they restrict who can view certain books by the country their IP adress comes from do to certain copyright laws or something like that. Sorry! I didn't realize they did that :(

Found a patent for the improved Massey spring hammer that shows the linkages better. GB189723749 Also a page in an old book with some diagrams. Spring Hammer

"Some Recent Developements In Power Hammers" By H.F. Massey 1904 on Google Books I thought this was interesting. So far I've only looked over the section on spring hammers. Its to bad some of the figures/plates seem to be missing from both copies of it scanned on google books. In particular I'ld be interesting in seeing fig. 5 & 6 of the improved spring hammer.

They should have had two made so the next time the key gets lost they have an extra as back-up.

The saftey police at work again! Same reason I can't find a decent gas can for my lawnmower. I imagine if you can't wait for the sun to dry it out you could bake it in your oven on cookie sheets.

The prices I see for anvils in wisconsin varies alot. I mostly go to auctions, haven't had much luck with craigslist. Since January I've seen two small anvils under 200lb sell for over $500 a piece and a big one that was probably over 400lbs sell for a little over $400.

I was planning to attempt a set of tongs based on your tutorial you posted a while back and was just wondering what material you used for the pin. The place I usually get steel from mostly stocks the small rounds in 1018.

Nice looking tongs. Are you using A-36 for the rivet?

May be "easy" but requires expensive equipment/tooling!

Rebound test?

I could be wrong but to me it looks like that hammer has been cobbled together. shop made parts and maybe parts from another hammer? looks drastically different than the 30lber I picked up last fall and the pictures I've seen of other 30lb kerrihards. Particularily in the ram/guide/spring area. I suppose it could be a older/newer model than I've seen but it just looks off to me. Do you have a picture from the front of the hammer?

I'ld take a power hammer over a Harley anyday! If you watch and are patient deals do come around once in a while. I probably paid to much for my beaudry but got the kerrihard for a ridiculously low price. I figured it all works out in the end. I look at them as usefull tools and neat pieces of history, kind of a 2 for the price of one.

I think the bad economy has forced some people to sell hammers they've been holding onto for a while.