[TheForge] Air Hammers

Sun Apr 6 23:13:01 2003

Yup, I think there are some archives of the list somewhere and this has come
up a few times. I used this in my guides and it worked out great, theres a
pic of my hammer in the photoaccess site of how mine was done. Dont worry
about heat, there is none, Im using steel on UHMW and its fine. Stuff I got
was from Cadillac plastics,they are international and I got some blue and
some white
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[email protected]>
To: "TheForge" <[email protected]>
Sent: 07 April, 2003 2:29 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Air Hammers


> Instead of using brass bearings for the hammer and slider, has anyone used
> UHMW which is a high abrasion resistant, low friction, chemical resistant,
> tough - hard wearing plastic. UHMW stands for ultra high molecular weight.
> This stuff is used in industry on things like fork lift chain guides,
roller
> lines for boxes etc. This stuff is tougher than you know what! My only
> concern about using this stuff would be that of heat from any possible
> friction between the hammer slider and the plastic. Any thoughts there.
Oh,
> this stuff that I have seen is usually white.
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