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anybody know where to find the parts to make the handle and the two ends. I'm not looking for the leather washers,I'm looking for the other parts. I'm looking to fix one for myself. I would like to know the right way to do it. I put one togeather so I would have something to use. Its not pretty but it works. I'd like to hear what anyone else is doing. Thank You

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I think most folks turn the handle themselves and go to the local hardware store to get the long carriage bolt , washers, and nuts.

Mike

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I already did one that way. I thought that there has to be a better way than that. I'll have to keep looking....Hey Thanks a lot.

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what is the plastic part of the maul made from, nylon delrin?

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Being a machinist myself I would suggest getting a hold of someone with a metal lathe. They can make the ends any way that you want them.

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To tell the truth I'm not sure what it is. I got it from work when it was in the trash. I used it for a lot of things. I have some I use for cutting boards, and hammer and tooling stamps. I have some stamps I've made that are 5/16 around and I can pound on them all day long and nothing hurts it. When I use it as a cutting board it's so hard that some times I could swear it dulls my knife. I used my maul to pound and Osbourn 1/8 thonging chisel thru three layers of what had been 13 oz veg tanned leather that I skived down to 8 to 6 oz and it didn't even skuff it.

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If it is something like Delrin, it may eventually fracture. I have machined Delrin, and it cuts really nice, like soft metal. Nylon will be softer, and more flexible, withstanding repeated blows better.

Picture, or what color is the plastic?

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Its white. my wife seems to have disappeared with it again. I'll try to get a photo on when I find it

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The Delrin that I have used has been either bright white, or black. Delrin is very hard, you cannot press a fingernail into it. It is also fairly brittle, and will not flex much before cracking. I used it for bushings on some machines I was working on. When you cut Delrin the chips come off clean.

Nylon comes in a wide variety of colors, and durometers (hardness). Most of the nylons that I have worked with were soft enough that you could dent them with your fingernail, but they can be hard also (stocks for the Remington Nylon 66's for example). The nylons that I have used usually left flags along the edges that needed to be trimmed off after cutting.

Whatever you have, you want to make sure that it is not so brittle to chip, or shatter on the face, and possibly causing eye damage.

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Heres a pic of it post-17333-084412800 1303170058_thumb.jp

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The blueish tint reminds me of the Nylons, or UHMW I worked with. UHMW is fairly soft though, and is used for wear strips on conveyors, and such. This wouldn't match your description of hardness.

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