[TheForge] Re: scroll machine/ power hammer

Mon Feb 2 15:54:09 2004

That would be great Mike.  I would love to see a professionally made "Walking 
Beam" style hammer.  Can you call him for a pic?

Daniel Kretchmar
www.irontreeworks.com

Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one 
trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy�ooh hoo hoo hoo�the 
sky's the limit! 
The Tick

Quoting Mike <[email protected]>:

> 
> > Over four hundred years of power hammer development and the Rusty was
> > the first to to use and eccentric/crank and a  leaf spring?
> 
> I haven't been able to get good views of either rusty or pitbull
> hammers.  But the first hammer I got was this configuration.
> 
> Before I had a shop or knew much, I spotted a power hammer in a closed
> shop.  Found the owner (who had retired after he sawed off his right
> thump) and bought most of his gear including a hammer.
> 
> Ca. 100# ram, very heavy leaf spring, 3' long conrod and a crankshaft
> about as heavy as one in a 10HP gas engine.  Eventually I had a shop,
> set it up with flat belt drive.  Worked great for bashing -- making
> anchors, drawing out heavy bars, punching 1" holes -- but I never
> got it tuned to be very responsive or controllable.
> 
> It looks like circa 1900 design but there are no numbers, names or
> anything on it anywhere that I could find and no one who's seen it has
> ever seen one like it.
> 
> Got it in Sunderland, Mass in 1968, swapped it off for an air hammer
> in 2002 so I wouldn't have to move it.  Tim Bolivar, the new owner, is
> real happy with it.  Maybe I should try to get a digital photo for the
> web.
> 
> - Mike
> 
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