[TheForge] "DROP" Hammer - Question

[Michael Horgan]

Well, yes, Bruce, there is compression. In fact, we had to grease the 
bolt that we used to fill the hammer, otherwise there would be a 
little puff of white lead oxide blowing past the threads with every 
drop, as the lead powdered and spontaneously combusted.  Also, quite 
a bit of the time it would be driven, as I'd throw it down to strike 
a particularly difficult combination of patterns.

At 05:07 AM 10/5/2005, you wrote:
>I've been wondering for some time about that idea - loose lead fill 
>in a hollow hammer.  Seems to me that only would only work in a 
>"driven" (e.g., hand-held dead-blow) hammer.
>
>I would gusss that, in a drop hammer, everything (hammer and lead 
>fill) would be falling at the same speed.  Unless compression of the 
>fill were involved, there would be no less tendency to bounce.  But 
>then, I've never tried it.
>
>Bruce
>NJ

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