Alrighty, I have borrowed an air hammer for use on a restoration project, problem is it doesn't work. I realy haven't had a chance to look it over good but I can't figure out how to get it apart to fix it. Any body got any ideas or now of any websites that show a diagram of how it works or how to get it apart.

It's a CP No.60.

Thanks in advance,
Ben

btrue@vt.edu

Ben,

Buy a can of oil for air operated tools. Put some down the air connection. Let it set over night and then next day gently tap with old 2x4 or such. Then try it again, if that does not work switch to WD40 (or another rust breaker). If still no joy, buy another tool. Cheaper these days to replace instead of repair. Not sure even if that model can be taken down into parts.

retsquid@tvec.net

> Alrighty, I have borrowed an air hammer for
> use on a restoration project, problem is it
> doesn't work. I realy haven't had a chance
> to look it over good but I can't figure out
> how to get it apart to fix it. Any body got
> any ideas or now of any websites that show a
> diagram of how it works or how to get it
> apart.

> It's a CP No.60.

> Thanks in advance,
> Ben

Lots of times they get all "gummed" up from sitting. Depending on the handle configuration the control valve usually comes out through a plug near the air inlet (or the entire air inlet threads out revealing the valve). To get the body apart there is a snap around collar that partially covers the air exhaust ports. Once you snap the collar off(carefully) the body will unscrew from the handle assy. Solvent clean all the pieces, oil it up and hopefully it will be serviceable once again.

drotarinoh@webtv.net

>Dear Ben:
If Bill's suggestion doesn't get your gun hammering away, a couple of other thoughts: First (not trying to be a smartalec) does it have a piston (hammer) in it and is the piston freely sliding up and down the bore? Second (and probably your real problem) is valve inside the gun that reverses the piston free? Not the little control valve that regulates the flow of air, but the valve directs the air to one end of the piston (hammer) and then the other. Generally the reversing valve (for the lack of a proper name) is either a thin wafer of steel that floats in a little cage or a thin, open ended cylinder with several holes in it's sides that fits into a step in the barrel of the gun that the handle attaches to. In either case this is what directs the air first to one end of the piston (hammer) to shoot it down the barrel, hitting the end of the snap (tool) you have installed and then to direct the air to the other end to shoot the piston back to the handle end for another cycle.
Good luck, be careful, a No. 60 isn't the biggest gun around but it can still do a lot of damage to your body (trust me on this one).
J.David

jdconrad@snet.net