<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Tim Coates is right in his concern about scorching the hammer felt.  The way I solve that is to have a rheostat in the circuit.  I have an extension cord wired up with an ordinary light-dimmer switch.  I can use this with any heat tool, e.g., hot key bushing iron, shank bending pliers, etc.  Easy to keep the heat just right.  (Be sure not to run motors or electronic equipment through the rheostat.  That can wreck 'em.)<BR> <BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Lucida Handwriting" LANG="0">             </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Lucida Handwriting" LANG="0">-     Tom McNeil     -</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Lucida Handwriting" LANG="0"><BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">V</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">ermont </FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">P</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">iano </FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">R</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">estorations</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR> <BR> <I>"Now let me see," the Golux said. "If you can touch the clocks and never start them, then you can start the clocks and never touch them. That's logic, as I know and use it...." </I><BR> -- James Thurber, "The 13 Clocks" </FONT></HTML>