Anyone have any good plans for making their own...??? Is is possible to make a planishing hammer using an air chisel or something like that...???
I just did a search of the forum, (I remember seeing several including my own post)... here are some links: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95584&highlight=planishing+hammer http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71229&highlight=planishing+hammer http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49365&highlight=planishing+hammer Hope that helps. I built mine in a couple of afternoons for about $50. Ben
all the olds guys have told me.... learn with a hammer and dollie first that way you'll appreciate the wheel more maybe you already have though anyways...if you want i can show you my plans for a wheel it uses a spindle for a trailer for the lower adjustment but id have to draw them ive been collecting bearings and what not for a while now so eventually here im gona make some time to build it good luck zach
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Buy a lathe first. You'll come out ahead as far as money. Turn your own dies for the wheel and hammers for the planishing hammer. Otherwise you'll spend a pile on those things. I built both. I used a WWII-era riveter head for my planishing hammer. It's kinda like a air chisel but very different. It extends 4" before it starts hammering. Slow and hard hitting, not like a buzzing chisel that makes a lot of noise and does a little work. This thing will break your hand. Theres a guy on the net that sells rebuilt ones for about $200. I used an old big drill press base and post, and from there it's all fabbed.
here's a little inspiration for ya! i just got my hammer functioning yesterday after it being a backburner project for a few months. still need to tidy up the plumbing, make another lower die holder that has an articulated arm to be able to move the die around, etc. but these were my first couple test pieces, first a patch panel for rust on my 51 chevy, then i traced a funnel, and practiced coloring within the lines, didn't do too bad for a first effort. then among some other practice panels, i threw a little bit of a reverse curve with a defined line into a panel using only the planishing hammer, the first two were worked over on the shot bag and shrunk edges. i made my own dies, heat threated and everything, but many people grind their own from grade 8 bolts etc. i made the frame a bit heavy for the application, 2x3 1/8 wall tube, then filled it with sand to prevent any ringing from the frame, works great, solid as a rock and the only noise is from the actual hammering, really no louder than any other hammer hit, just a lot more of em! the head is a HF air chisel. i built the lower die holder on a removeable arm so i can make others if necessary to get into difficult spots, and i will certainly be building more, i quickly realized you need to be able to offset the dies to get into areas like the edge of the dome i did. one important part i made, not shown, is an alignment tool to line up the upper and lower clamps when welding and setup, just a bar to clamp in both clamps at once, made it a snap to weld.
My English Wheel. I built the Frame, the top wheel was a Drive Pulley in some Machine ( took the grooves off in a Lathe ), the lower Wheels are bought, the adjuster is a Tailstock off an old Lathe.
I bought my Planishing Hammer, but I made a frame for it too. The Headache rack off a Forklift provided the material, and I made the Footpedal out of the case off a worn out Die Grinder and a Moon type Throttle Pedal
i dig the race car throttle pedal metalshapes! is the valve from a die grinder? might flow a bit more volume than a blow gun type foot pedal.
you'd think, huh? this thread is a good example of what was mentioned in the HAMB feedback thread about people reluctant to post tech cause nobody even notices. a few measly posts, while everybody else seems to be posting about the use of club names. it's okay i guess, i need the practice beatin on metal more than i need practice typin wurds on the cumpooter.
Yeah, its a gutted Die Grinder. I took the 90deg arbor off, capped the end and put a fitting on it for the hose. So all thats left of the Die Grinder is the empty housing, the valve, and the handle. It works good...
metalshapes--That is a great way to make a foot valve for a hammer! Do you think it would also work as a foot control for a sandblast cabinet? Thanks for the tip
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