[TheForge] air hammer Side bar question.

[David E. Smucker]

The hammer at the Folk School was and is a Big Blu.  I say "was and is"
because the older one was sold and a new one purchased this past spring.
Control on the new hammer is even better -- very easy to use.  The school
also has two older 40 pound Trip Air (I think that what they are called.)
and one 25 pound Little Giant.

Interesting to note that all of the operating power hammers at the ABANA
conference were air hammer.  A few Little Giants for sale in the tailgate
area but everything running was a air hammer and lots of them.  Someone had
a 20 pound home made mechanical hammer -- but I didn't see it run.  It was
in the tailgate area.  Bob Bergman had his Nazel 2B there for one of the
demo areas and said it was for sale for $ 16K.

Dave Smucker


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] air hammer Side bar question.


>
>
> GHS wrote:
>
> > Bigger and faster is not always better.
>
> Definitely so, but having the option open to you is, I think,
> always better than not having it.  I guess it all depends on
> how well the hammer behaves at each extreme.  If it's good on
> control in all ranges of speed, then why not have the capability
> at one's disposal?  Nazels have precise control at all speeds.
>
> The hammer at the Folk School (Bull?  Big BLue?  Don't recall,
> and always forget like an idiot anyway) I found to be a very
> controllable device at all speeds.
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