[TheForge] Air Hammer Anvil ? Previous 2 mails didn't work...

[Jerry Frost]

Hi Mike:

Welcome to the list of the delurked. <grin>

I got all four of your posts just fine. You probably 
didn't see them right away and assumed they were lost. 
E-mails sometimes get lost for days, usually they turn 
up in minutes to an hour or so but I've seen one come 
in around a year later. It could be an intercontinental 
thing too, probably not but maybe. I doubt it will be a 
regular problem, if it is, you might want to talk to 
your ISP.

Maybe give your posts an hour or so before resending 
next time?

Your english is just fine, in fact you're much easier 
to understand than most american kids. <grin>

Yes, I did mention being willing to adapt a hammer 
design to use a cast iron counterweight. At a minimum 
it will require a heavy steel plate between the cast 
iron and the bottom die. As far as cast iron being able 
to take the beating, no problem as long as you're not 
beating directly on it.

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

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/

From: "Madmike" <madmike at tiscali.fr>


> Hi everybody,
>
> I read this letter since about 6 months now, a bit 
> shy I didn't wrote
> before, but have found many answers in your words. So 
> let's introduce
> myself, I' Madmike, a French horse farrier (I've 
> stopped, tired of
> driving 3 hours a day) turning to blacksmithing and 
> bladesmithging. I'm
> 'junkyarding' the parts to build up an air hammer and 
> have found a
> Forklift counterweight coming from the smallest 
> 'gasoline' poewered ones.
> I'm wondering what kind of material is used to make 
> these 'so desired one
> Big block' and how much it could weight (to size up 
> the trailer I need to
> borrow). I hope it's not 'casting' (I hope casting is 
> what I mean, this
> fantastically brittle black stuff used to make stoves 
> or heavy pans) as I
> doubt it could kiss a 160lbs ram 200 times a minute. 
> I've read somewhere
> here that Frosty (if my memory is good) would have 
> used one if he had
> Found one so I imagine it can do the trick.
> Well I Hope my rusty English is still good enough to 
> be understood, I
> Wish you a nice day.
> Madmike.
>
> --