hammer shanks

Newton Hunt nhunt@optonline.net
Tue, 29 May 2001 08:24:18 -0400


Weight is a good idea but I repin _after_ I have finished messing with them, like
hanging, shaping, filing, etc.  That "pathetic" is attributable to some of my "mis"
handling.

I wish I still had a scale again...

		Newton

Richard Brekne wrote:
> 
> Newton Hunt wrote:
> 
> > _I_ sort them by pin tightness.
> >
> >                 Newton
> >
> 
> I used to...but now I sort them after their weight ala Stannwood. I repin anyways
> as I have found stock pinning to be often as not rather pathetic. On just about
> any given set of grand shanks I have ever purchased well half of the centers were
> bad in one way or another.
> 
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no


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