[TheForge] Build a power hammer?

[Jerry Frost]

I think the last I heard Mr. Krause was having trouble 
scaling it up. Heat maybe? I recall a discussion of a 
home made self contained hammer literally smoking the 
oil but don't remember who's it was.

Good question though Bob. Why not indeed? Mr. Krause's 
valve scheme was pretty simple too as I recall. I 
remember your sketch. My guess is you can build a 
Kinyon type hammer from off the shelf parts using 
refined plans. You can pick up a phone and talk to any 
number of people who've built one or more. The 
technology has been around at least since the Civil 
war, probably longer so there're more examples around. 
Simple isn't necessarily the same thing as easy either.

It's all a guess. Just because I think I can put a self 
contained hammer together using a version of Massey's 
02 valve scheme doesn't mean it's a time or cost 
effective idea. Heck, it doesn't mean I can pull it off 
at all. I think it's perspective though, for some 
reason since getting a handle on the valving and scotch 
yoke there hasn't been a problem I haven't seen at 
least one clear solution to. The anvil will be a real 
pain if I actually have to cast it though.

Frosty
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From: <schade at acegroup.cc>


>
>
>
> Mark Krause brought his "self contained" air hammer 
> to the Abana
> meeting a couple? of years ago. It sounded great. 
> Everybody wanted
> one (me too). Great control. No expensive air 
> compressor etc.
>
> The last I heard was that Mark was trying to scale 
> his hammer up to
> a larger size. If it ever happened I never heard 
> about it.
>
> So if they are simple why are people still buying air 
> compressors to
> run home built air hammers?
>
> Bob
>
> 8-)
>