[TheForge] Tire power hammer/YAK long

[Rick]

Hello Roger -

    I think we should try to get Clay to do this for UMBA.  I would like to 
have a power hammer and DON'T like the noise of an air compressor running 
all the time.  Also, I have heard of these hammers and their cood 
control-ability.  Maybe we can get something going, what do you think?

Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
  Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
   In the middle of Northern Illinois

    http://www.smokyforge.com
     rick at smokyforge.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger R Degner" <rog781 at means.net>
To: "'Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <blacksmiths at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:45 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Tire power hammer/YAK long


>I have returned home from the Alabama Forge Council conference where I
> got the opportunity to watch Clay Spencer run a shop made #50 mechanical
> hammer made with a emergency spare tire as the clutch.  He gave the name
> of the inventor several times but I don't remember it at the moment.
>
> I thought this hammer was the BEST running mechanical trip hammer I ever
> watched work.
> It always stopped with the hammer in the up position
> He was using it with flat dies and showed many different types of top
> tooling mainly spring swages/fuller but some hand held top tooling also.
> When just using the dies it did a very good job of drawing
>
> clip
>
> I taped the demonstration and am converting it to DVD-R.  It will
> eventually be avalible from the UMBA library for $7 shipped.  A full
> list of videos are at www.umbaonline.org
>
> The AFC group was very nice to visit.  They have two buildings for the
> demos equipped with a little giant, a treadle hammer, forging press, one
> of Tom Clarks Air Hammers vises tables forges and all the tooling a
> typical shop could every want other than a cone mandrel.
> The weather was a drastic change on the way home.  It was at least 50s
> there and when I awoke at a rest stop at 4am on the way home to
> Minnesota it was -9.  It was 1150 miles one way but well worth the trip.
> They say next years conference will be the weekend after labor day in
> September so mark your calendars.
>
>
>
> Roger R Degner



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