100# Little giant in cali for 850

Frontier Forge said:
I think the hammer needed alot of work new dies maybe 500, a flywheel and toggles and spring. If Sid even has them. Anyway the winning bid was 1175 so with that and the costs to fix it...Not very cost effective. Money would be better spent on a beefy #80- #100 lb. tire hammer or the down payment on a chinese self contained....My search will continue for a good deal in my erea...That hammer just doesnt fall into that catagory...
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Sid has dies, springs and toggles for 100 lb LGs.

You're not likely to find a 100 lb LG close to as cheap as this one went. I've been looking for 18 years. Paid $2500 for my first one 13 years ago and it was in rough shape, but fixable. Goin price for good running 100 lb LGs is $4000-$6000. Deals do pop up though :)
 
dsloan said:
I missed the spring, but caught the pitman. I guess that's one way to keep it from sliding up. The ears on the ram were another mod that looks interesting.

But I'm still not ready to scrap it. If it wasn't for the fly wheel I'd say. We can save it.

I have a blacksmith friend that brought a Little Giant home from the scrap yard that had frame cut in half to make it easier to load.

If nothing else we would set it by the curb and mount the mail box on it.

Dave from Diller
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Would make a good yard ornament:)

I figured out what wore the flywheel, either the ram or spring or both were rubbing on it when the ram was at the top of it's stroke.

And that little spring is real funny lookin welded in there. :D
 
I agree with Don... as bad as that one is, MOST of the issues could be fixed and you'd still be at a pretty decent price for a 100# LG. And like Don, the anvil is what would scare me off.

The man that had owned my mill and lathe, had a Cincinnati shaper that could have handled the job of milling a new dovetail, but that's a BIG job. I have no idea what a shop would charge for that, but I'm sure it's a lot.

I paid $4k for my LG in pretty decent running shape (not as good as I thought at the time :o :rolleyes:) You could do a lot of repairs for the difference in price.

But the flywheel and anvil would sure cause alarm.
 
I believe that all 100 lbers had removeable sow block on them this on is just hidden by the cobbled up repair.
 
hey, thats not that bad if it has a removable sow.. a friend of mine had a similar problems with a cracked sow on his 100 ...and i think he said, that Sid would sell him a new one for 700 (that was couple years back )

honestly.. i seen some old shapers go for cheep... it maybe less expensive to buy the shaper than get the part

a 100 LG has some serious forgin power... if it were me... i'd still throw the bucks at it... think of it.. you'd still have a great hammer in the end, if you do it right..... no more weld patch jobs... what the heck were they thinking:thumbdn:
 
Looking at the pictures that sloppy repair is because the lower dovetail that holds the sow block is broken out creating a very difficult if not impossible repair.
 
bhyde said:
It has been mentioned elsewhere (not BF) that particular seller has a shill. Bids the price up to find it re-listed later by the same seller.. Not sure how much truth is in the story but I have tried to avoid anything they list.
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Never heard of them having a shill, but I've done business with them in the past.
Bought my mill from them even, and it showed up with a dead CRT.
They had a repair man out the next day with a new monitor.
 
Guys, I let this one go for a while, because it was more about repairing a LG than buying one, but I would be remiss in my job if I didn't point out:

AUCTION SPOTTING IS NOT ALLOWED !
 
Stacy...I started this thread......Sorry...My thought was maybe someone might benifit from a good deal.....Can you explain "Auction Spotting"
Sorry again, wont happen again...Robert
 
Auction spotting is posting about an auction or for sale item.

I personally think that we should have a way to do it for large or rare items that can often be hard to find. I can totally understand not wanting to clutter up the forum with people auction spotting thier own knives or supplies but power hammers, anvils, used blacksmithing equipment, ect can often be difficult and labor intensive to find. Having many more sets of eyes for these things would be great.
 
:confused:I feel like an @&&hole for breaking the rules, I went back and read the terms of use/ rules I honestly dont see it in the rules.. To make things better maybe the moderator should just delete this thread.
BF is a great place to learn, network and meet great like minded people I wish I would have discovered BF and other forums like it sooner..It would be a shame to loose my privladges here over what I thought was helpful to my fellow knifemakers...:confused:
 
There is no problem, and you aren't in any trouble. People do this all the time. We mods, try and ignore it mostly, but post a note every now and then to remind folks. Don't feel bad, you were only trying to be helpful.

The rules clearly state that deal spotting and any similar posting is prohibited. But, that doesn't stop folks eager to pass on a deal they spotted. The intent is good, but it could get out of hand easily, and we would have this site clogged up with spotting reports. The other side of the coin is that it would tempt someone to spot their own auction. If the seller made a post like yours about his LG on ebay, he would be soliciting thousands of potential customers in a niche market. It could drive up his final sale price, and make him lots more money.....for free. All sales related posting must be in the exchange, and deal spotting is not allowed there either.

As nice as it would be to have a "Deal Spotting" sub-forum, it is not practical, and would be in competition with those dealers who pay to sell in the exchange.

The rules:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=494370
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/faq.php?faq=faq_rules
 
I too understand the intent behind the auction spotting rule. Never-the-less, I am extremely grateful for threads such as this one. I just learned a sh*t load more stuff about the design, engineering, construction, maintenance and repair of this power hammer than I thought I'd know when I woke up this morning. Would be a d*mn shame to delete.

I scored a Wilson Rockwell hardness tester in NH (where I hail from) due to a fellow forum friend posting a heads up about it. I'm thankful that thread didn't get censored as well. (THANKS Stacy!) I say thankful, but the verdict is still out on that one. My cousin picked it up and is waiting for me to visit this summer to get the bugga up and going. The big bummer is no weights. I've only found one place selling replacement sets to the tune of $500+. We're hoping to figure out a way my cuz can machine up a set. If it doesn't go well I may yet become a auction-spotting-bad convert. :o
 
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Phil Dwyer said:
I too understand the intent behind the auction spotting rule. Never-the-less, I am extremely grateful for threads such as this one. I just learned a sh*t load more stuff about the design, engineering, construction, maintenance and repair of this power hammer than I thought I'd know when I work up this morning. Would be a d*mn shame to delete.

I scored a Wilson Rockwell hardness tester in NH (where I hail from) due to a fellow forum friend posting a heads up about it. I'm thankful that thread didn't get censored as well. (THANKS Stacy!) I say thankful, but the verdict is still out on that one. My cousin picked it up and is waiting for me to visit this summer to get the bugga up and going. The big bummer is no weights. I've only found one place selling replacement sets to the tune of $500+. We're hoping to figure out a way my cuz can machine up a set. If it doesn't go well I may yet become a auction-spotting-bad convert. :o
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I'm curious to see how you make out with that one.


On one of the machinist forums, one fellow created his own stainless replacement weights.

I missed the boat locally on a PAIR of digital Wilson hardness testers for $300.
They were built into a shop made testing fixture and missing anvils.
While I was looking for more info, they were grabbed up...
 
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