[TheForge] treadle hammer design

[Mike Spencer]

Bruce wrote:

> We accelerate hand-held hammers all the time.  See how much work you
> get from a hand-held hammer if you let gravity do all the
> accelerating.  Not much!  So we typically fling hammers down on our
> work with considerable acceleration.

Not directly relevent to treadle or counterbalanced hammers but if
you're pondering f=ma, 1/2 mv^2 etc. this (and the pages linked from
there) might be of interest:

   http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/hammer.html

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
                                 
mspencer@tallships.ca            
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/