[TheForge] Hammer in NY

[Ralph Sproul]

Bob, I'd have to agree with you for air hammers being more controlled and a
better hammer. I'd still take a Little Giant with a brake for general rough
forging like vines and leaves - much faster.  I have a 50 lb Little Giant
and two air hammers in my shop and for work requiring more control I always
head to the air hammers.

Depending on how good a scrounge someone is the air hammers can be built for
$700-1500 now with steel prices the way they are. Having an air compressor
puts you into this option - and being able to cut, drill, weld is mandatory
......and having at least one week and more likely two for the project is to
be expected especially if your doing your first one.

One of my air hammers is now called the "tower of power" as it's about 8
feet tall with it's 18" stroke.  We had a thread going a while ago on this
list about air hammers and someone said " a long stroke piston would not
work well in a Kinyon hammer as it would take too long to exhaust the air in
the opposite chamber"......... I dont' know who said it - but they are way
wrong.  This hammer works far better than I ever imagined and working with
an 11 inch open die space is awesome for furniture, sculpture, and forging
large pipe sections.

If anyone gets to try one of John Larsen's air hammers - that's another
story on air hammers and how nice they are! I tried one at Quad State last
weekend - real NICE hammer!

Ralph

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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Hammer in NY



On Sep 28, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Larry and Pat Brown wrote:

>
> No, I have the carcass of a LG that needs a lot of work, a guy here on
> Staten Island contacted me looking for one. He is looking in the $1500
> range. If I had know you were selling the champion I might have been
> interested. The Beaudry is much more than I can set up.
> Might see you this weekend things are looking up
> Larry
>
>



I have a Little Giant 25lber that works great for me. But I bought
it "back when" for $600. If I had to pay $1500 for a hammer that
needed work I would take a look at how much it would cost to buy
an air compressor and build a 40-50lb air hammer ala Kinyon.
Probably less than $1500 and probably a better hammer.

Bob
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