Body Hammer Polishing / Restoration - Make Your Hammers Better!
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- In this week's video we will revisit a topic I covered a few years ago, "How to Make Your Body Hammers Better!". This time around I will fully demonstrate how I go about Body Hammer Polishing and we will undertake the Restoration of an old body hammer. My Grandfather had a body hammer that has seen far better days so it needs a Restoration and what better time to explain how I go about Body Hammer Polishing?
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These techniques are pretty straight forward and are applicable to more than just hammers. Whether it be Dollies, English Wheel Anvils, Planishing Hammer Dies, Power Hammer Dies, or Pullmax Tooling, a clean surface finish and smooth edges can go a long way.
Alan - congratulations on another excellent video, offering value to people who may need to restore sub-standard hammers. Of course I really appreciate your continued positive comments about my line of hammers and dollies, and I take special pride in seeing the 'Covell' sticker on your back wall!
Thank you Ron, appreciate your encouragement and I feel like I sound like I'm overstating my sentiments on your hammers but I'm just being honest. If I can save one person from buying cheap hammers and get them on your set I'll be happy.
Learned the hard way about rusty tools living by the ocean in VA. Never had to worry about humidity in the desert of southern Utah.
I've worked a few places where it was a real serious pain to keep maintaining things. Some places just lend themselves to easy maintenance. Not most of the places I've lived. Ha.
Very good video how to change something you dont use to something use full 👍. Looking forward to se more from you.
It's cool that you have a tool from Grandpa. It's more cool he did some body work himself. All in the family. :)
My Grandfather worked at Mack Trucks for the majority of his adult life. My great grandfather owned a Chrysler dealership in my hometown. There is some family history to back my path. At least a little.
Great vid! You can't get quality results without using quality tools. Well worth the time to take care of your hammers. The Snap On one looks pretty familiar!
👍👍 It is really all about the time you are willing to put into things. You can do a lot with a little if you spend the time.
That BF615 is the one I had. The one you sent I'm going to dedicate as an Aluminum only hammer soon. It's been happily oiled and stored in my box for when I get a project for it. Thank you again!
Got some scotchbrite mops that are on a bench grinder. They gently bring rusty tools back to a very pleasing condition. They make a wicked job of restoring rusty dollies , anvils etc without removing any material from them. Cheap and effective but a little messy so catch pans required or you vacuuming up your bench!
For touch ups between uses I often use a light Scotch Brite then buff/polish. Good tip for stuff that's just seen some surface rusting. 👍👍
Great video 👍Thank You for sharing this nice tips.
Glad you liked it and thanks for saying so. 👍👍
Found it!
Enough said really! The only thing with the new hammers is that they're only case hardened so you dont want to sand them down too much and when polishing them on a mop (machine) you dont want to get them hotter than you can hold them. I know the hotter you get it the quicker it becomes shiny but i find sometimes its not as hard as it was. The more shiny it is the less likely it is to rust as well. The only other thing i do to old hammers that no longer have the original shaft is chance the stay or drift for a round one. Put a new piece of wood in there first from an old broken shaft (i have one around in my box) tap in the round one (because it spreads the top part of the shaft in all directions of the hammer head) and let the head soak overnight in some thin oil so the shaft swells to help the wood mould to the shape of the head.
Another top video alan
There is no doubt that the number of words that you cram into the longest sentences possible during the shortest time imaginable will result a spontaneous explosion of your head causing it completely blow up . Just slow down and remember that blokes who watch this type of content have more than a modicum of experience and don't need the same stuff explained several times . Finally when working mild steel a highly polished striking face is a disadvantage compared to a face with an 80grit surface finish which can tease and move metal about due to friction . The old boys knew what they were doing and rightly had sets for steel and ally with different surface finishes to achieve their results.
I think I learned how to dress body hammers from a video of yours. I restore and refurbish vintage machinery. Once in a while a piece needs some light bodywork. Don't get me wrong, it's not as if I'm really good at it.
I did one about two years ago where I just explained it and not demonstrated, so that is quite possible.
What grit would you start off on the Covell?
Never really realized the benefits of this,but it makes sense especially with newer aluminum panels. What do you do with a waffled or shrinking hammer?
Especially on aluminum this makes sense but even on steel I see the benefit.
As for waffle hammers I legitimately never ever use them. I've tried just to test it so I could speak to it better, and I couldn't stand it. Scarring metal hurts my soul. Haha. I use a shrinking disc 9 times out of 10 and torch shrink the other 1 time.
@@HotRodHippie yes lots of metal finishing after, please feature a shrinking disc in the future I've never used one
@@davehaberman6191 I absolutely will. I just want a good project to feature it on. I really should just grab a ratty fender and work on it for a bit. Wray Schelin at Pro Shaper sells discs and has a few videos about their use here and there.
I have some of my dads olds hammers and dollies that need Restoration, however, I am not quite comfortable doing it myself being a new first timer, is there a place I can take them to get resurfaced at a machinists/machine shop.
Sorry to say I do not know of anyone or have a good recommendation off hand. I would say a good metalshaping shop or quality auto Restoration shop but I'd hate to point your wrong. Sorry I can't be of more help. Where are you located? Maybe I happen to know a good person near by.
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How hard is vegan? I couldn't do it.
Meh it's easy for the most part. The only hard part is traveling. Especially to out of the way places and small towns. Here in Mass is easy. My hometown in PA was challenging.