Thor 70-14R 14R Hide Replacement Face Size 3 (44Mm) Reviews

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“Although perhaps this was not the most economical option for repairing a hide mallet, as the hides are somewhere around three quarters the cost of some new mallets. However, this was a repair I’d been going to perform for the last sixty years. I repaired it out of guilt. The manufactures repair instructions are to swage outwards the mallet head with a special tool and high power press, after digging out the old hides, then using the press to force back in the new hides. With the new hides inserted use the special tool again to press crimp inwards the mallet head to grip the hides. This assumes the soft iron doesn’t split in the process. I decided that the above instructions were way over the top for my needs. I dug out the old hides. Then using an electric drill with a rotary grindstone ground the head’s entrance to a slight smooth bell mouth that was still smaller than the hide’s diameter. Put some super glue inside the base of the mallet head, put a little shoe polish on the outside of the hides to lubricate them when inserting and then pressed-in the hides into the head using a large vice with a long leverage tube on the vice’s handle. The heads went in relatively easily and I now have a usable mallet, which I now, longer feel guilty every time I use it.”

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