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Completed rebuild ready to ship
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Foot pedal spring relocated
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Modern motor drive assembly
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Sid's collection of various old power hammers
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An old treadle hammer
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A steel beam arm type hammer
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Wooden arm hammer
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The various designs seem to have no end
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More shapes and sizes
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The variations seem to go on and on
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The die mis-alignment problem
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Sid Removing the old Babbet bearings
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Sid checking alignment of ram silde face to bearing stanchions
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Dummy shaft in place
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Collars set with Bebbet right
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Sid preheating the bearing stanchions and dummy shaft
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Pouring the bearing
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Bottom half of the bearings are poured
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Removing the bearing babbet from the main pulley
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A dummy spline is centered
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Pouring the new babbet
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The main shaft bearings
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Spacer bars
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Shaft, bearing caps and collars
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Sid heats everything again
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Jennifer Horn pours a new bearing
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Pouring the front cap
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Cooling off time
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After Cooling
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My hammer is stamped #1470
