[TheForge] air hammer Side bar question.

[Jerry Frost]

The short answer is "depends on what you're doing," or "process." (I get a
little tired of saying "process" as it's often just a little too pat a term)

Regardless, depending on what you're doing at a given time, often the metal
MUST move faster than you can "think" or it just doesn't do what you want it
to. In these instances the time to "think" is over when your foot and
treadle meet, it's now the time for feel and intuition.

There are, of course, many situations where slow paced, careful deliberate
blows are the only appropriate action.

The reason you want a hammer than can go faster than you can think is: It's
better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. OR. A fast
hard hammer can go slow and easy but a slow easy hammer can't go fast and
hard.

Of course that's just my opinion.

I could be wrong.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


----- Original Message -----
From: "GHS" <ghs at execpc.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 6:04 AM
Subject: [TheForge] air hammer Side bar question.


> A wise man once asked me:
> Why does anyone want a hammer that hits faster than they can think?
>
> It seems to me that there is, for each of us some individual standard
> that dictates the perfect ratio of hammer speed, to force of impact on a
> power hammer. I know that on my Bull90 I am hardly ever at full bore,
> usually slower and softer by a large margin.
>
> Bigger and faster is not always better.
>
> I would like to here from those of you who use smaller/ slower hammers.
>
> Mike Graf
>
>