[TheForge] Air Hammer Base Plate

[Steve Smith]

You (correctly) replaced weight with mass; I made a lame sort of joke 
about it. Someday I'll learn how do do email, what comes across and what 
doesn't!

Steve

Dave Mudge wrote:
> Sorry Steve, I don't get your point.
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> dave mudge
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> So what, Dave, are you moving to Saturn or something?
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> Steve
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> Dave Mudge wrote:
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>>The more weight, the better.
>>Maybe the correct phrase would be 
>>The more mass, the better.
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>>Pick up a hefty 3 or 4 pound hammer and start whacking on a 45 pound
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> anvil.
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>>Now, using the same hammer and the same force, attack a 300 pound anvil.
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>>"real" hammer manufacturers use a range of 10:1 all the way to 20:1
>>for the ratio between anvil weight and hammer head weight. 
>>You can make the base plate a lot bigger than the plans call for, just
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> don't
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>>go smaller.
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>>dave mudge
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>>I calculated the weight difference between the 1.25"
>>and the 1.5" plate for 16" X 41", and it's only 47
>>pounds.  Is that enough of a difference in the base
>>plate to matter?
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>>--- Dave Mudge <dave at magichammer.net> wrote:
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>>>Figure out how much 1-1/4 plate x the length of the
>>>plate called for in the
>>>plans, and have your 1-1/4 inch plate made that much
>>>wider.
>>>
>>>dave mudge
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>>>Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:10 PM
>>>To: Sponsored by ABANA
>>>Subject: [TheForge] Air Hammer Base Plate
>>>
>>>I'm builing the standard size Kinyon, from the ABANA
>>>plans.  The place I get my steel from doesn't have
>>>1.5" plate for the base plate.  They do have 1.25"
>>>plate.  
>>>Would that be thick enough?
>>>
>>>
>>>		
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