[TheForge] Build a power hammer?

[Jerry Frost]

Geeze Pete, I don't know what to say. If you go all 
practical and everything we'll never hear from you 
again.

I listen to my wife too but it doesn't mean I pay much 
attention.

<sigh>

Okay, I may've given the wrong impression when I said 
the 1902 Massey valve scheme is simple. Simple isn't 
necessarily the same thing as easy. Between the Massey 
valve scheme and the scotch yoke the project is greatly 
simplified and yes, much easier.

It still isn't an easy thing to do but blacksmithing 
isn't about doing things the easy or practical way. 
Okay, that was a generalization and I can cite a number 
of occasions I disproved it myself but as a generality 
it holds up well enough.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/

From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" 
<artgawk at thegrid.net>



> 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:
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