[TheForge] Build a power hammer?

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Mark did build a second larger hammer which he kept changing. 
Last heard he was turning out work with it.
Simple and easy for the likes of Mark and Frosty perhaps.
I spent some time working up to trying myself. Collected a bunch 
of parts and materials, priced some others etc. Then , at my 
wife's bidding,i tried to figure out about what it'd cost and how 
long it'd take me.
Then i picked up the parts i'd collected and stored them away.
It was an unusually adult thing for me to do.
And of course i sorta regret it....Pete F

schade at acegroup.cc wrote:
> 
> On Aug 2, 2006, at 4:32 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, the 1902 Massey patent has what I think is one of the simplest 
>> full function controls for a self contained power hammer.
>>
>> Frosty
>> -------------------------------
>>
> 
> 
> 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-)
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