[TheForge] treadle hammer anvils

Thu Jan 9 20:09:01 2003

 Seems to me making the height adjustable is a small matter , then you can
easily put whatever you darn well please under the hammer , no problems.
----- Original Message -----
From: "GHS" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] treadle hammer anvils


> bob,
>  That was my experience also.
> The adjustable height was nice at first,
> but quickly the tooling height became
> uniform. Then it was less of a factor.
>
> A simpler solution would be to make the
> hammer with a fixed height for , say
> 1.25 - 1.5 inch stock plus tooling, and
> then make a few thicker plates to pop
> onto the anvil for thinner stock,
> when/if it would actually make a
> difference. That makes for a changeover
> of about 5 seconds.
>
> Martha says Hi back.
>
> Mike
>
>
> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > bruce,
> >
> > i tend to agree with you but there do seem to be a lot of tube anvil t
hammers out there doing good work. i have a solid anvil t hammer in my shop
and in spite of the 240lb anvil it seems to be a really inefficient way of
moving metal (with a 70+lb head). i think the t hammer really shows it's
stuff in use as a striker for hand held tooling. in that app a solid 240lb
anvil is less important i think.
> >
> > also someone else mentioned that the kirkpatric t hammer doesn't adjust
for different height work/tooling. i used to think this was a big problem
but i have changed my opinion on that.
> >
> > my t hammer is a spencer style swing arm. at first i did adjust the head
but over a period of time i made all my tools about 4" long. now i can work
in the range of material i usually work without raising lowering the head.
the shmirler book with the picture of a treadle hammer has provisions for
swing away anvils to accomodate a variety of work/tooling lengths.
> >
> > thanks for all the response.
> >
> > bob s.
> > __________
> >
> > >Bob,
> > >
> > >Have you ever seen a Peter Wrong anvil?  There's one hanging overhead
in Gichner's store that's very convincing.  You'd think it's solid to look
at it.  It's actually fabbed out of sheet metal, maybe 16-ga.
> > >
> > >How'd  you like to do all your work work on that anvil instead of, say,
a Peter Wright anvil.
> > >
> > >Nuff said?
> > >
> > >Bruce
> > >NJ
> > >
> > >>>> [email protected] 01/09/03 09:14AM >>>
> > >i am building a treadle hammer for a friend. he is not sure whether to
go with a solid anvil or a tube type. it seems that most commercially
available t hammers have tube anvils with a plate on top, centaur,
kirkpatric (the same?) and the one advertised in the hammers blow.
> > >
> > >are there others that can be bought?
> > >
> > >any opinions on the functional difference between solid or tube anvils?
the guy i am making it for is concerned about moving it (weight). he lives
in a flood plain and his shop has 7' of water in it some springs. he usaully
loads thing up and moves it to high ground till the water goes down.
> > >
> > >bob s.
> > >
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