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Bing Hammer - what am I missing?
« on: March 27, 2020, 02:53:06 pm »
Can anyone help me with what is missing from my Bing hammer? It seems to work fine, but there is a handle on the side and what appears to be a broken off tab from the body... maybe this puts it into a neutral position? I have found 3 videos from @yussufhippo but they are all filmed from the pulley side...



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Re: Bing Hammer - what am I missing?
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2020, 02:58:57 pm »
Just looking at your photo Nick, I would suggest that the sickle shaped lever needs to go underneath the tabs on the side of the hammerhead, so that in its raised position the hammer doesn't fall, but in the lowered position, it does. I think the "broken off tab" is actually just the detent to hold the lever in the up or down position.

That's my guess anyway.
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Re: Bing Hammer - what am I missing?
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2020, 03:07:19 pm »
Quote from: Stoker on March 27, 2020, 02:58:57 pm
Just looking at your photo Nick, I would suggest that the sickle shaped lever needs to go underneath the tabs on the side of the hammerhead, so that in its raised position the hammer doesn't fall, but in the lowered position, it does.

That's my guess anyway.

Yes, that is what I tried and it does work as you describe, but there is nothing to hold that lever in place... I am assuming there should be a tab or something coming out of the red body of the hammer itself that holds the lever up?
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Re: Bing Hammer - what am I missing?
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2020, 03:10:22 pm »
Could it be that the handle side of the lever is bent out too far from the body to engage the detent tab that does stick out a little way from the hammer frame body?
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Re: Bing Hammer - what am I missing?
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2020, 04:41:23 am »
Quote from: Nick on March 27, 2020, 02:53:06 pm
Can anyone help me with what is missing from my Bing hammer? It seems to work fine, but there is a handle on the side and what appears to be a broken off tab from the body... maybe this puts it into a neutral position? I have found 3 videos from @yussufhippo but they are all filmed from the pulley side...





Without much ado, two photos which will help solving this question, I hope.
a) Working position

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b) Secured position

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To switch lever positions, you have to lift the lever and slide it over the "catch"...

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Re: Bing Hammer - what am I missing?
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2020, 04:45:08 am »
No idea why the second photo appears in landscape format??? ??? ???
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Re: Bing Hammer - what am I missing?
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2020, 08:21:56 am »
Thank you very much Thomas! It appears my lever is just bent a little as Daniel suggested and my "catch" is complete  :)
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Re: Bing Hammer - what am I missing?
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2020, 11:46:55 am »
Quote from: Nick on March 28, 2020, 08:21:56 am
Thank you very much Thomas! It appears my lever is just bent a little as Daniel suggested and my "catch" is complete  :)

My pleasure, Nick!
Mine, btw, only works when I have this lump of tinfoil wedged under the hammer-head and "anvil", so that the hammer stays lifted up a little... The tinplate nose inside the contraption that lifts the hammer has obviously been bent and straightened and bent again and again so that it does work only haphazardly (and I don't want to dismantle the whole body as the parts a held together by rather frail tinplate flaps...).
But I like the way it works and the way it looks!
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