You had to have saved a double ton of money making your own planishing hammer. I've been thinking about building one too. Nice to see your good efforts in building one. I picked up some idea's. Thanks...

Great video! Such a cool machine, especially since the off-the-rack ones are so expensive! Bravo sir! Small critique, ACME is generally spoken as “Akkk-Meee”. Good stuff man, keep up the good work!

If you want your planishing hammer to be effective, you need to clean up the welds first. you are trying to move more metal than there is space for in the panel and you end up with either an ugly weld line or an over stretched panel . The weld bumps also screws up the anvils over time.

I had the same idea, welding inside of an alignment tube with an access window. I'm glad to see someone try it. It seems to work as expected.

Nice work, looks super useful.

Nice. Looks like an up coming project for me.

I was thinking the same thing about putting it into the tube as a jig. Then I wasn't sure if you'd be able to get it back out lol. Almost need to throw it on a lathe

Just found your channel, I'm liking what I see. I have a similar project. A 1948 F6 COE and a 48 conventional F6. My plan is to marry the two and make a 4 dr out of them. They then will be put on a 1993 F350 frame, with 7.3 turbo Diesel with 5 speed. That probably will take a couple of weeks, na years if I am lucky. Is that your chassi in the back ground, Nice. I like your project on the planishing hammer. For more ideas on different styles take a look at Make It Kustom, he builds several different models. The next time you try to join two pieces by welding while inside a tube. Drill a hole all the way through. That will allow you to immediately rotate the tube 180 degrees and weld the other side before the first welds cools, that should keep most of the warp out of the tubes. The quicker you do the second weld the less warp you will have. Anyway keep up the good work.

Very resourceful, thanks for sharing!

Works great !

Brilliant definition of resourceful

Thanks, good ideas.

grind slight grove so you have a slight v for the weld then cut a short pipe place it in the other end of the tube. then stick it in your press on the other side of your sweet shop. the press should hold things together for your tack welds.

Genius!

You can use 2 pieces of opposing angle iron or channel clamped to the outside of the tubing to keep the tubing strait as well. I narrowed a rear end with that method and it works perfect.

That's cool. I think i could make something like that. Well done🙂

Thank you.

When you butt weld two pieces of metal like that, you need to bevel both pieces before you weld them. You will have a much stronger weld, plus you wouldn't have had problems with it coming up in your weld hole. Also a slot would have been better than a hole if you had the means to make one. Otherwise keep up the good work. Like Rat Rod Bob says you're getting it,you just ain't got it yet.

Preheat first to prevent some shrinking ..

You could have made a jig for the tack welding, your inner tube is long enough cut a couple 6" pieces of your outer tube, put them on the inner tube a few inches apart so you can get to the welds to clean them up and weld flat bar on edge perpendicular to the outer pipe wall across the gap. Weld them opposite sides like you were to avoid warping, 30degrees apart you'd get 6 ribs and that should hold it straight enough to weld and maybe get a die grinder in there if the inner pipe doesn't just slide out. Cool project.... I never would have had the stones to cut up that air hammer but now I see how foolish I am

I like the project. It's a good idea.

FYI : Hard thick MIG welds do not planish well , save yourself time and TIG weld it

Just a thought if there is a bit of distortion in the anvil holder can you get it machined down on a leath back to round

Would you mind saying where you got your anvils from ? Thanks .

Instead of cutting the trigger just bond it in the on position and use a foor pedal regulator.

Where did you order the anvils for the hammer? Thought you stated Arizona, but nothing more. Please let us know. Thanks.

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Maybe grinding the ends on those 2 like beveling them so when you weld the weld will pennatrate and you can always grind afterwards and have flat surface

I've seen other videos where they claimed the harbor freight hammer hit a little to hard . Did you feel the same way?

Do you happen to have the link to where you bought the lower die mount & dies?

I am wondering why you didn't hinge it with a

Who are you buying the lower mountain dies from

Rich you overthought it if you would have just wielded a nut on either side for adjustability and clamping force. or just wielded the nut up inside and a nut on the bottom end a fashioned an T handle for it youd'a got their faster with out near the work,

Where did you get the base the dies sit in?

Hey. How Much Preasure you need for thicker Material planishing?

Clamp your pipes to be welded into a piece of 2x2 angle iron and clamp them for welding

Gusset the hoop?

Check out “make it kustom”….you might get some trick tips for this

All's well that ends well, nice work on that. Those things are terrible on the ears.

Maybe if you have to do something like this again, you should bevel the joint before you weld.

You need a lathe my friend..

I really like the project but do yourself a favor and buy a camera stand, the wiggling around and working with1 hand just doesn't make it. Keep up the good videos.

If you would have learned about stitch welding you wouldn't have had to build that ridiculous thing.

i nave a CENGAR planishing hammer - its a noisy bugger and after a while i swear it'll flake the enamel of teeth !