[TheForge] Treadle Hammer

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In a message dated 7/9/2003 6:33:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, quahog@tds.net 
writes:

> Little Giant 25# &50# are less than my treadle hammer @ 64#.  The Kinyon 
> pneumatic hammer plans have what, a 35# or 40# head?  These are probably 
> not what you'd want in a production shop that's making big stuff and 
> beating 1" and 2" and better bars.  But they work just fine in small shops 
> as well as hobby shops.
> 

The Kinyon hammer is actually a 50#.Larry Zoeller came up with the idea of 
scaling it down to 25 to 35#.I have built 2 of them both 25# and one of them a 
bench top hammer and they both work rather well
Bob
Hotanvil Forge
http://members.tripod.com/hotanvil_forge


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