[TheForge] air hammer

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Try checking ,in this order the following.
1. Air pressure. Are you generating what the hammer needs in the first 
place.

2. Piping size including any valves. Do not trust the size embossed on 
the valve. 1/2 inch means the size of pipe that the valve connect to. I 
have some 1/2 inch valves with less than 3/8 opening inside the valve.
Check for the term "full port" on the valve.
Pay attention not only to the pipe size, but the number of elbows and 
the length of the pipe. ( You can breath through a soda straw, but not a 
garden hose. Bigger is a relative thing.)

I do not think that tank size would cause your problem. As an experiment 
I can run my Bull hammer flat out off of my nail gun compressor, for 
about ten seconds. Then it is useless until the air build back up.
  I normally run off of a two stage compressor with a sixty gallon tank.

My money is in skimpy piping/airline.

Mike Graf

Dan Scheid wrote:

> could be both or ether. I tested my hammer with a old 20gal compressor and
> got about 150-180 for 1 or two minutes. then it dropped off . I run my
> hammer with 100-120 psi with a 60gal tank
> thing that can affect the speed are .
> 1)friction of ram
> 2)psi higher the faster
> 3) hose size
> 4) valve size
> 5) distance from vale to the release of air on you peddle.
> so a little more info is needed before we can give a good answer
> Dan Scheid
> 
> 
>>Welllll, we finally got it together and the hammer moving on it's own. The
>>question is that we are only getting 60 to 90 beats per min. with a small
>>compresser and 20 gal. tank. Is the problem the air supply or are we
>>overlooking something?
>>
>>Kim George
>>
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