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Stealth Pilot wrote:

well it wasnt a troll it was a serious question.

locally in a year of searching I havent seen a single solitary 4oz
ball pein anywhere I've looked.

the purpose was/is to do the metal forming on a set of replacement
cowlings for an Auster J1b. these are out of aluminium with a rolled
wire edge. my two little ball pein hammers are superb for the way I
work but with lots of use they have rougher faces than what I'd like.

what I wanted was some new hammers that I could polish the faces on
exclusively for aircraft metal work.

from the links that you guys posted I'm green with envy :-) at the
sheer diversity of tools you guys have in america.

what are we coming to in australia when you can only buy 4oz ball pein
hammers mail order from america. rolls eyes when I started out to
get some new ones I would never have believed that in a year of
looking I'd be able to say that I still havent found any.

thanks
Stealth Pilot

I pretty sure $nap-On has dealers in Australia.

They make $18.35 (USD) 4oz Ball Peens, and even more expensive 2oz ones
for $18.45 (USD).

4oz
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item....ID=9118&group_
ID=1053&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog

2oz
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item....ID=9116&group_
ID=1053&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog

(If the links don't work, just go to snapon.com and search.)

However, with their prices it might be cheaper flying to the US to buy
one.

As another poster noted, I'm sure if you snooped around sites that sell
jewelry tools and supplies, you'd find them locally.

The Auster looks like it'll be fun.

http://images.google.com/images?ie=U...20J1b&um=1&sa=
N&tab=wi

Would love to see some shots of the one your working on... you can put
them up in the drop box, and post a link to them here.

http://www.metalworking.com

Erik