[TheForge] treadle hammer anvils

Sat Jan 11 09:28:00 2003

Sounds to me like a Ford vs. Chevy debate, If the user is happy w/ whatever
machine they own thats what counts.
Randy Mundt
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From: "GHS" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] treadle hammer anvils


> Looking at the grasshopper for a while
> now, I have some 1 cent observations.
>
> There are certain advantages to the
> design that are real advantages. The
> lessening of wear and tear on the legs
> is one. The ability to setup tooling
> with repeatable precision is another.
>
> An already fabbed hammer of this type
> would be marketable, but its visual
> complexity is intimidating at first, to
> those contemplating building one.
>
> The advantages in tooling, for most of
> us can be dealt with in other fashions.
>
> I think more than one of us has gone the
> power hammer route when out legs began
> to hurt. As a power hammer is by nature
> IMHO better for drawing out than a
> treadle ever will be, it is no contest.
> For mass producing things , I would
> suspect that most would rather have dies
> in a power hammer than a grasshopper.
>
> For most , by the time they can really
> appreciate how elegant the grasshopper
> is, there already is a Spencer type or
> one of its cousins sitting in the shop.
> Once one is there It would be difficult
> to see sufficient motive to replace it
> with a grasshopper rather than
> augmenting with a power hammer of some
> sort.
>
>
> So, if someone were astute enough to
> appreciate the grasshopper initially,
> and did not see the likelihood of a
> power hammer in their future, some
> enterprising person could probably sell
> them a ready made grasshopper over a
> ready made Spencer type.
>
> Mike Graf
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> http://www.execpc.com/~ghs/
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