[TheForge] Shop tour long

[Ralph Sproul]

Thanks Roger, I'd be interested in seeing the set up in a still picture if
you can swing it.

Ralph
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From: "Roger R Degner" <rog781 at means.net>
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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:33 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Shop tour long


> When returning last Sunday from an UMBA Upper Midwest Blacksmiths Assoc
> I stopped at a members shop for a tour.  John Lane needed to build a
> shop but the City would not let him so he built a house on the lot next
> to his.  The ist floor is his shop (too neat, clean and orderly for me).
> The second floor houses his tool collection.  Too many antique tools to
> take in in one viewing.  Johns work was been in the Anvil's Ring
> Gallery.
> Now for the reason for this posting.
> He has an Oliver Hammer he uses in many projects, cold cutting, veining
> punching ect..  This is made from a 16# sledge hammer he uses his foot
> to swing.  I took a small video of it in action but other than putting
> it on an UMBA DVD not sure where to put it.  www.umbaonline.org
> Basically it is a frame with two cross shafts with bearings.  The top
> shaft holds the sledge handle and the bottom shaft is controlled by an
> arm stepped on by the foot.  The two shafts are connected by roller
> chain.  This chain is fixed to the bottom shaft and just loops around a
> sprocket fixed to the top shaft.  The weight of the chain looped over
> the sprocket holds it in place and if an adjustment is needed just pull
> the chain to a new position on the sprocket.  The hammer is brought into
> an upright position by two coil springs hooked to roller chain and
> another sprocket on the upper shaft.  He can add tension to one spring
> to bring the head up faster.  The anvil is welded up heavy pieces.  John
> said he used to have an anvil there but it kept moving around so these
> pieces are welded together and no more movement.  A very neat hammer and
> maybe easier to make than a treadle hammer
>
> I will try to get a still picture of his work and this hammer posted
> somewhere
>
>
> Roger R Degner
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