Subject: Re: Little Giant questions?

From: [email-masked] (Clay Spencer)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 23:08:50 -0400

At 8:58 AM 6/5/96, Robby W. Armstrong wrote:
>I am rebuilding my 25 lb. old style Little Giant.
>My questions:
>The bottom die holder(anvil?) has some large chips and I would like
>to fill them in, what type rod do I use?

I suggest you contact Russ Cashion, in Nashville, TN and ask him how he
welds these. He is member of AFC so you have his address and phone. Fred
Caylor is another good source. Russ would be a good choice to do the
machining/fitting of the connecting rod.

>After cleaning I noticed that the Little Giant was originally
>painted green. What type paint should I use to repaint it and what
>shade of green was it?

Don't burn paint off or wire brush paint from a hammer which has been in a
fire. Fred Caylor got lead poisoning from wire brushing a burned hammer.
The paint on some hammers was lead based paint.

Clay

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From: "John W. Pollins, III" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 22:49:48 -0400 (EDT)

>The solid brass rod that connects between the (flywheel?) and the
>arms is worn at the end where it connects to the flywheel. It looks
>like a a brass piston rod, can I take both pieces (the flywheel and
>brass rod to a automotive machine shop and get them to machine shop
>and get them to machine and fit it the way they would a piston rod?
>Or would they screw it up? What should I do to take the play out?

>Robby W. Armstrong
>[email-masked]

        Rebuilding my 50# Little Giant I turned the brass rod true then
pasted up the inside of the split steel knuckel with jb weld and bored it
out true. It's been right ever since.

                Pollins