02-03-2015, 07:57 PM
Since this is a thread now, I should probably fill it in a bit.
There is already a build thread on another forum, but here's some pictures of it for here.
This whole thing started because I found some scrap metal and wanted to practice on my mill by cutting the rust off of it. I then felt the need to make something with my new shiny metal.
It took two tries to get it where it is now. In the first attempt I had the block and hammer pins too close together (I'm building this from a picture, not plans). The block would have swung down and into the hammer pin. I had to start again, with new block, hammer, and side plates. It's a good thing the metal was free.
For the second attempt I realized that the parts pivot around the pins (duh). This realization allowed me to modify a cheapo compass and scrib the arcs for all of the mating parts directly onto the parts. When I filed them out the second time they fit like magic.
That one lesson was probably worth the extra effort.
There is already a build thread on another forum, but here's some pictures of it for here.
This whole thing started because I found some scrap metal and wanted to practice on my mill by cutting the rust off of it. I then felt the need to make something with my new shiny metal.
It took two tries to get it where it is now. In the first attempt I had the block and hammer pins too close together (I'm building this from a picture, not plans). The block would have swung down and into the hammer pin. I had to start again, with new block, hammer, and side plates. It's a good thing the metal was free.
For the second attempt I realized that the parts pivot around the pins (duh). This realization allowed me to modify a cheapo compass and scrib the arcs for all of the mating parts directly onto the parts. When I filed them out the second time they fit like magic.
That one lesson was probably worth the extra effort.