[TheForge] Striker air hammers

Wed Mar 26 03:17:03 2003

Ries,
Can you send a picture of the hammer without the sheet metal shroud or a
diagram of the hammer. I have not seen the inside of any air hammer so if
someone else with a nazel  ,etc. can send a picture or diagram, it would be
nice.
Thanks,
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "RIES NIEMI" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Striker air hammers


> I have never worked on a 50lb little giant, but I have a friend who has
one,
> and he leads me to believe my 40kg (88lb) striker is significantly more
> powerful.
> I have been working quite a bit of 5/8" to 1" round stainless on the
88lber,
> works quite well. It does start to show its limits on bigger pieces of
> stainless- 2" rectangles take a lot of hits. Mild steel is no problem up
to
> 1 1/2" or so- maybe 2"- it depends what you want to do with it. It has
> enough fine control to work 3/16" naval bronze, 1/2" square is no problem.
I
> can hit lightly enough to just mark a spot, hard enough to really squish
> pretty big stuff. 245 BPM, but you can easily put just one hit, or maybe 2
> at the most, on something.
>
> The anvil to ram weight ratio is about that same old 10:1- 40kg ram, 480kg
> anvil. 88lbs to 1056lbs.
>
> The hammer itself weighs a little over a ton, the anvil another half ton.
> Altogether, its too much for my forklift, so we have to take it apart to
> move it. I wanted the flexibility of being able to move it, so I built a
> 1/2" plate box it sits on, with the anvil at floor level, the base of the
> hammer elevated about 18" up. I put down a piece of thick rubber horse
stall
> matting, about 3/4" thick, then bolted right thru the rubber into the slab
> with some 3/4" concrete anchors. As I said, no cracks after a year, and if
I
> want to move it, I can just pull the bolts and either drag the whole thing
> around, or take it apart and move it with a forklift.
>
>
>
> > what size iron do you work w/ an 88# hammer, do you have enough contol
for
> > 1/2" square?  I've owned a 50# little giant for 5-6 mo., only power
hammer
> > I've ever used.  How would they compare?
> > Randy Mundt
>
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