youngdylan Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 OI! blokes this isnt a lingual discussion on the good old days of the english language! i am looking for genuine advice, not an old fogies look at chaucers great works..... Trying to think of any Aussie writers, only one I can think of is Germaine Greer ........... the word great doesn't spring to mind in this case Oops, appear to have ineterupted again B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 Hey woody Have you got hold of the sucker yet or not, theres 2 hammers in the latest plant and equipment mag a 2 and a 7 both are asking $15000 or so, bit over priced for where they are (Tas and WA). I have a piece I was writing for a blacksmiths mag on removing my 5cwt, I'm trying to find it. What sort of equipment do you have to remove this hammer, is it in a high roofed workshop or not, give me some idea of what you have to remove it, where it is, do you have access to a forklift, can you get some helpers, do you have any jacks, packing timber etc. Phil what is the magazine you were writing for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgemaster Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 what is the magazine you were writing for? It was the NSW artist blacksmiths newsletter. They call it solid wrought. They are based at Wauchope (Timbertown heritage Park) North coast NSW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 re opening old wounds..... i have just re read this whole thread, and it seems like ancient history! but, i have now scored the position of "the new primo" (the old smith in the mill was named primo), i am now employed as a smith/boilermaker. today i spent all day countersinking m20 bolts under the hammer. it still wont go into multiple blow. hoping that John N is reading this...... should i attempt to remove the valve and "de coke" it? it seems to puff and blow a lot in the positions below neutral, before it starts chomping and it just will not lift. it goes straight into full blow range. i took a video, i will attempt to upload it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r smith Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Nice read, thanks for updating us. :) It seems you should offer to replace it with a hydraulic press? Are there any cheap ones that would do the job? Just tell them the old guy was right to only use it as a press due to its being messed up- let me get it out of the way and buy you a real press- it will do what we use that broken machine for much better and safer too. smith out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgemaster Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Congrats on getting the job Woody, much better use of your skill than a cleaner. When the mill needs new coupling hooks and links made for the cane waggons I know a place down near Cessnock NSW that can make them, they are too big to do using a 5, better send that work down here to me. Cheers Phil (was nice to see the old posts from Grant again, still miss him and his input even though I never met hiim in person) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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