[TheForge] LG speed (was suggestions on hammer tooling.)

[Larry Brown]

I don't recall the speed but Sid Sudemeyer said if a 25# wasn't running 
fast enough it wouldn't  hit hard enough. I was working on the hammer that 
the Northest blacksmiths have at Ashokan, NY which had been set up with a 
jack shaft. When it was eliminated it worked much better
L Brown



At 02:18 PM 1/18/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >       I think that for certain sorts of bottom tooling I
> >       would not want to be working anywhere near 300 BPM.
>
>My 25 just would NOT hit hard and consistently until I moved it up to the
>rated speed, which is 340 BPM.
>Now, that's fast, I think, but I've learned how to work with it and I'd
>rather have it hitting well at that speed than hit and miss at a slower
>speed.
>Also tightened the toggle linkage as Clifton described.
>Andy G.