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  • #16
    Originally posted by jim d View Post
    Cotton you are correct that a hammer in the right hand can do some pretty fantastic things or trash everything in the wrong hand.
    I have a ball peen hammer that I used on a daily basis for 48 years. When I first got it I was a hack and pretty abusive with it but I figured it out. One of the few things I took with me when I retired. All of my good hammers have highly polished faces to keep them from marring anything I am using them on.

    Everything is a hammer, Jim!

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    (Except that's also a racing kickstand. And custom-ground to press master links)

    Pounding has to be the most primordial tool instinct. Observational skills evolved with use, and today we have disuse.

    ..Cotten
    Last edited by T. Cotten; 01-27-2025, 09:19 PM.
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    • #17
      "Metal moves, or else it would shatter, and the hammer shouldn't pound, but should coax the metal where you want it to go.

      I confess to making a circular drift, but abused it similarly.

      So I guess its an art, lost to all but the brave. Watchagottolose?"

      Tom;
      So in your experience what weight ball peen would work for a situation like Harry has?
      (Note to Harry: Do you have a bottle of touch-up paint?)
      You mentioned using a circular drift could you explain a bit or post a picture,
      Thanks

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      • #18
        Can you hammer a cast part?

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        • #19
          I thihk i would take the fitting with the thread that fits screw it into a nut. chuck it up an face it too the top of thread, drill and tap it 5/16 32. use some good loc-tite

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          • #20
            Originally posted by DEEBS47Chief1991 View Post
            Can you hammer a cast part?
            The parts with zirques, Deebs,

            Are usually malleable to a degree.

            I never weighed my little ball peen, Paul..

            Most punches are circular; In a hurry, I wasn't afraid to peen around a loose zirque in place, but they were harleys.

            ...Cotten
            AMCA #776
            Dumpster Diver's Motto: Seek,... and Ye Shall Find!

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            • #21
              Thanks for all the input, I tried a few different approaches with mixed results and settled on a hybrid of several of your ideas! I found in a stash a copper water supply line that was a snug 3/8" o.d.. Copper being so malleable, and me not having a lathe or being a machinist, I thought it might work! I threaded the outside of the tubing to 3/8-24, then the inside to 5/16-32 and to my surprise the threading did not penetrate through the tubing walls...pretty thin so I expected that! Loctited the grease fitting to the inside threads of the tubing, then loctited the outside threads into the three cast fitting spots. It should be good, threaded in firmly and bottomed out firmly.

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              Last edited by pisten-bully; 01-31-2025, 08:00 PM.
              Pisten Bully is Harry Roberts in Vermont.

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              • #22
                Looks great. Glad you got some different ideas made it fit your situation and ran with it.
                Jim D

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                • #23
                  Well Done Harry, Well Done . . .

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                  • #24
                    Nice repair. Perfect.

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                    • #25
                      Great fix. And your threaded insert won't leak like a wound spring heli coil might.

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