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Thank for the suggestions regarding brazing. Brazing is something I know very little about and have no experience with it. Therefore, the ram guide is at the metal shop and will be brazed by someone who is well experienced. I will pass along your suggestions to the man who will do the brazing. It is the second repair on the guide. It was repaired a few years ago with brazing. However, I plan on passing this hammer along to a friend of mine and I would like to have it fixed in the best way possible. Therefore, he will get the original part repaired with brazing and with any luck, a "new" fabricated steel ram guide which I hope to make. In any case it will be a fun project .
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Here are a couple of photos of the transition style 50# Little Giant and ram guide.50# LITTLE GIANT 2.HEIC
50# LITTLE GIANT RAM GUIDE BROKEN 1.HEIC 50# LITTLE GIANT RAM GUIDE BROKEN 2.HEIC
Thank you Jason for your helpful suggestions regarding fabrication of the ram guide. Your approach simplified the whole project. I think I will give it a try, as i doubt that I will come up with a salvaged ram guide.
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Yes, I should have mentioned that my first contact was with the Little Giant Company. They don't have or make any of the ram guides for the 50# transition hammer. Dave said that he has heard of someone who machined a ram guide for the 50# transition hammer, but could not remember who it was. I thought perhaps there may be a hammer that was parted out but no luck there either.
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I have a 50# Little Giant Transition style power hammer that has a broken ram guide and I am wondering if anyone has a ram guide for sale, or has ever tried to fabricate a ram guide for the transition hammer? It has been taken to a shop for brazing but I would like to explore the possibilities involved with fabrication of a new guide from steel. Anyone have any experience they wish to share?
Ram guide for 50# Little Giant Tansition style hammer
in Power Hammers, Treadle Hammers, Olivers
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I took the advice of Janson and went the fabrication route. I made full size drawings of the ram guide from multiple perspectives and decided on using 1/2 inch plate for the two curved side pieces, 1/2 inch x 1-3/4" x 1-3/4" angle iron for the front "grooved" piece, 1/4" x 1-1/4" x1-1/4" brass angle iron for the front liner and 1 inch thick plate for the two side mounting pieces. The curved side pieces were cut out using flat card stock patterns that I made from the original guide. They were bent cold in a press at L&M Steel in Brainerd, Minnesota where I buy steel. The brass insert was held in place by threaded brass screws in the center of the angle iron. L&M Steel also drilled and milled the oval shaped mounting holed (three on each side). I fabricated a frame to hold the 5 pieces in proper alignment for welding. The pieces were welded, cleaned up and painted. The new ram fit in place nicely and a new die key was fitted and installed.