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Conrad
climber
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Wow... good to see this taking off!
Thanks all for the hard work.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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And now, we return to our regular D5 hammer show, already in progress.
Pretty bitchen, huh?
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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It has been a wild ride!
Thor
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Thanks for working through this project sir.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Paul, all the marking was done before heat treatment which hardens the metal and makes such work far more difficult. Of course I'm sure you could find and engraver capable of such regardless.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Give Paul #13, I'll take whatever I can get (#11 and #12 to match my wedding anniversary?).
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Acer
Big Wall climber
AZ
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Nice Update. Thanks
Well, if we want to start claiming numbers.
I am up or down for #69 since Locker was in and out so fast.
And I will claim on 007. Even though there is some debate on the top 10.
#000 – The Last A5
#001-#006
#007 - Acer :)
#008-#010
#011
#012
#013 – Moof or Paul
#026 - DNF
#034 – BLACKED OUT
#042 - Prod
#069 - Acer
#140 - DNF
#142 - DNF
#143 - DNF
#195 – BLACKED OUT
#214 – BLACKED OUT
#222 - Blem
#254 - Blem
#277 - (Last but not Least)
#420 - Nature (there is not a 420....yet)
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Strider
Trad climber
one of god's mountain temples.... ಠ_ಠ
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Well Acer, if you're the Keeper of this list then I will sign up for #277.
On the other hand, I am simply thankful that this whole thing has actually worked out and will be 100% satisfied with just getting one in the first place.
Big thanks to everyone involved!
-n
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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I requested #10 on the other thread.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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#069 - Acer
Wouldn't you need #096 to go with that?
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T Moses
Big Wall climber
Paso Robles
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 9, 2010 - 07:42pm PT
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Talked to Lewis on Friday morning. He is sending a final (hopefully) sample. It is currently in transit and will arrive on Friday. He has a batch of three hundred partially done right now. The grip end of the handle is done and waiting on my approval for the hammer attachment end to be finished.
Emailed Russ and he is working away on getting the leashes done.
The cracked heads were tested for the correct hardness and came back at 45-47 Rockwell C. Right with in spec. The guy I talked to said it is probably a small forging problem with just those heads. He explained that sometimes the billet that is used to forge with (chunk of steel that gets smacked with a couple hundred tons of pressure) is sometimes not preheated enough. This leads to the metal not binding to itself fully. If there was a problem with a head then it would have come out in heat treat and not after while in use. I need to talk to the heat treater and forge but that is what I'm going with currently.
I got the 13 gauge stainless steel sheet and built tooling to press barke bend it instead of hammering it over a vise like John had to. I've got access to a few more tools than he did.
The build party probably won't happen until the third and fourth of December. It is just going to take a few extra days for the handles to come in from the east to make my initial date of 19-20 of November.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Right on, Theron....Hangin' tough.
Hell, it's easy(to hang tough, that is)....no effort is needed, & I get to check out the D5 Show. WooHoo!
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Kick Ass™
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Awesome, Theron.
However long it takes, you da man!!!!!
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billygoat
climber
Pees on beard to seek mates.
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Nov 10, 2010 - 07:36pm PT
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So sounds like my x-mas present to myself!!! Trying not to get my hopes up too much.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Nov 10, 2010 - 07:58pm PT
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I'll take #100 if its available.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Nov 10, 2010 - 08:35pm PT
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ya'll claiming numbers need to calm down. ya'll are too psyched!!!
:)
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Nov 10, 2010 - 09:37pm PT
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I'm not paying for mine unless it has a number between one and three hundred. Just sayin'.
Z
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Nov 10, 2010 - 11:03pm PT
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We’ll never get to that special number… so never mind! ;)
PING, PING, PING!!!
Go Theron!!!
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T Moses
Big Wall climber
Paso Robles
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 12, 2010 - 01:00am PT
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Did some work tonight shearing up tang material:
Last friday I built some tooling for the bending:
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