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(This post was last modified: 03-14-2012, 11:11 PM by TOM REED.)
(03-14-2012, 09:03 PM)Tony Wells Wrote: I've used (and used up) lots of Young Brothers and Hansen stamps over the years. Both are pretty decent.
Tom, I don't see how you see those 1mm stamps! I couldn't.
I think they are 1 mm I may be wrong but they sure are tiny, when getting from CTC i usually purchased them along with something else to make the shipping more reasonable. the #s + letters are nice + crisp + clear which helps, I have not really used them yet other than to test them + a stamping fixture that I made but it looks to me like the will outlast me by many years. tom
I further checked CTC website the stamps are made from carbon steel and are case hardened, my general impression is that they are suprerior to the sets I have that I purchased some 40 yrs ago and one set I inherited that are at least 80 yrs old.
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Well, I guess jewelers use smaller stamps, but they also use a loupe. The smallest set I have is 3/32". I have to use a small hammer on them. It seems (with me anyway, I like a large hammer), that after a bit of use, any depressed portion of the stamp tends to fill in with material, and messes up the impression until I pick it out with a scribe of something.
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(03-14-2012, 08:34 PM)miner49r Wrote: Thanks Tom & Ed,
But rarely did anyone state what material the stamps were made of, if they were hardened, or what materials the stamps could be used on.
Alan
From the Young Bros. web site.
"All of our steel stamps are made with carbon tool steel. They're tough enough to keep on stamping long after other stamps lose their face. Young Bros. Stamps will mark material up to 50 on the Rockwell C Scale. We use a special heat treatment so they won't shatter under stress. Each stamp is manufactured to our high standards right here in the U.S.A."
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(03-14-2012, 11:13 PM)Tony Wells Wrote: Well, I guess jewelers use smaller stamps, but they also use a loupe. The smallest set I have is 3/32". I have to use a small hammer on them. It seems (with me anyway, I like a large hammer), that after a bit of use, any depressed portion of the stamp tends to fill in with material, and messes up the impression until I pick it out with a scribe of something.
I had another look at those small stamps and yes they are 1mm and damn they are tiny, I have a very tiny hammer and another head I need to put a handle on thats even smaller. I tried the 1mm out today and they do make a nice clear impression, I don't know if I will ever use them on a project but if I ever need them I have them. tom
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This thread has gone on without me. Somehow I stopped getting notified. Hmmm.
The Young Bros. stampes arrived the other day and I used them to mark a piece of hot roll sheet. They seem to be holding up pretty well over a set I bought from HF many years ago.
I must remind myself to hold them firmly and strike hard the first time because it's hard to get a second shot at it.
Alan