[TheForge] A&O Success!

Sun Aug 17 14:13:00 2003

Congratulations, it's always nice to see the efforts pay off
L Brown


At 02:06 AM 8/17/2003 -0300, you wrote:

>My son and I had the Alldays & Onions hammer running today!  It stays
>up, it comes down gracefully, it taps, it does single blows and,
>without a shred of doubt, it hammers.  A single heavy blow will
>completely disintegrate a piece of 1/2" thick rubberized fabric
>conveyor belt (the kind used in rock crushers) and make a little puff
>of rubber smoke.  It works!  Hot damn!
>
>Now, the drive power setup leaves something to be desired. It is not,
>you might say, for production, not what the techies call
>"enterprise-ready".  In fact, it's not for the faint of heart. You
>wouldn't believe me if I described it.  Some pics will be along in a
>week or so.  Rube Goldberg's heirs and assigns are gonna sue me fer
>sure.  Frosty is probably going to hock his collection of hand-tatted
>antimacassars and get on the Greyhound for Nova Scotia.
>
>So, Ralph, I'm first across the finish line. :-) But you may well have
>a usable hammer before I do because now I gotta slack off on this and
>get some other things -- umm, actually, quite a few other things --
>done.  (The lower die loosened up pretty quick but I expected that
>until it beds in real well on the copper shim.)
>
>Pardon the rave.  Can't he'p myself.  Been waiting a year for this.
>
>- Mike
>
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