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10-03-2005, 04:04 PM
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Kerry, I'll argue that one 'round and round with you!!!!!!!
My little hammer (can't get much cheaper than that - total investment was about $12 ............ the rest was scrap). Now, I never tried 16, but I had heard over and over at MM04 how that little hammer was "too weak to work 18" - so I stood on it! Upped the pressure to 90 (I had used it mostly for planishing aluminum ........... at 40psi), opened the gap on the dies a bit ............... and proceeded to raise a helluva lump in a piece of 18 gauge in no time flat! Maybe it's in the way you use it - I dunno. I do know it would have taken a bit more time (and a set of anvils Hoosier didn't make at the time) to raise a bulge that deep and relatively small. Give me a sandbag and one of my steel hammers and I could compete, but it wouldn't be as smooth. Slightly less than acceptable for final planishing - 'specially compared to a wheel - but still workable. How does it work now? Haven't heard since I sold the noisy little bugger at MM04! Tim D.
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