[TheForge] Air Hammer Anvil ?

[Madmike]

Peter and phoebe wrote :
Mike, a fair rule of thumb is that your anvil should be at least 
15 times the falling weight of the hammer.
With that much power it's possible to make your ruskie anvil fly 
like a tiddley-wink across the shop...forget about using the horn 
or tail under power.

Madmike:
I think you misunderstood what I meant, I would like to use the anvil to top
the cast iron counterweight not the anvil alone, so the anvil/ram weight
ratio will be 15~20:1 (1.5~2T counterweight+175lbs anvil / 165~200lbs ram)
I then would bolt the bottom die on the anvil in the center of the face of
the anvil, the forces that would get into the horn and tail would only be
some king of kinetic energy from the 'stopped by the counterweight' down
motion from the ram impact...
The horn and tail would only be used with a 4lbs hand hammer...
I felt some kind of emergency in your mail and can see you're concerned by
safety, that's good but I'm not fool enough to use a hammer heavier than the
anvil, lol !

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