[TheForge] air hammer

[Silver Creek Pottery]

How big is the hammer? I've found anvil to hammer weight ratio to be very 
important.The bigger the anvil , the less vibration.
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Mark  Mondloch
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From: "kim george" <klgeorge at kent.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:37 PM
Subject: [TheForge] air hammer


> Now that I have the hammer working right,I find that I need to damp the 
> vibration from it.
> 1, I can't cut a hole in the floor and pour a couple of yards of concrete 
> in it to solve the problem.
> 2,soil conditions indicate that I'd have to drive pile to bed rock.
> 3, I haven't figured how to put half of the base into another dimension to 
> have the havoc go there. :-))
>         So here is what I plan to do. put a wood base on 3" of sand and 
> 1/2" conveyer belting directly under the hammer. Do we have any other 
> ideas floating around out there that might help?
>
> Kim George
>
>       "Why for you burry me in cold,cold ground?" Taz
>
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