[TheForge] original abana plan style treadle (was Re: treadle hammer design)

Fri Jan 24 19:17:00 2003

Terry,

Try this link:
http://www.monmouth.com/~freeman/bmf/others.htm

I BELIEVE the "original" ABANA plans is what Pete Stanaitis is/was(?) =
selling.  Unfortunately the link I have on that page to his site seems to =
be broken, so here's the current direct link:http://www.spaco.org/trdlhamr.=
htm

A similar and perhaps better alternative is Jere Kirkpatric's TH kit (see =
above URL, which in this case leads to an unbroken link).

Bruce
NJ

>>> [email protected] 01/24/03 04:23PM >>>
hello;

george, are these original abana plans still available or have
they been abandoned by abana?

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, George Dixon wrote:

george>=20
george> Greetings,
george> I have used treadle hammers for well over a decade.  The ones I =
have=20
george> built are the original 'abana plan' style machine, the plan for =
which=20
george> was sold by abana in the late 80's.  It is one of the few which is =
not=20
george> over-engineered.  The head has no accommodation for tooling. The =
head=20
george> height is not adjustable and the head arcs....like a striker with =
a=20
george> sledge hammer..... I have never looked at a treadle hammer as a =
leg=20
george> powered "little giant'.=20
george>=20

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george> George Dixon
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