[TheForge] Re: scroll machine/ power hammer
pitbull
[email protected]
Mon Feb 2 16:51:05 2004
I can feather this one enough to drive a nail without marking the face on
the board. All you have to do is lift off the pedal a little. This hammer is
very responsive.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: scroll machine/ power hammer
>
> > 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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