[TheForge] Treadle Hammer Anvil Stand

[Ben Barrett]

Oh, right -- but with a spring return on a TH wouldn't that actually
get more [effective] work done?  Humm...
...not like the rebound is saving your shoulder the work :)
Or is it that return vibration within the material, re-hammering the
underside of the piece we'd be missing?

~ben


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> mass without rebound?
>
> Ben Barrett wrote:
>>
>> Sounds nice -- I like it.  My thoughts:  have the bottom capped, stuff
>> it full as you suggest and then pour molten lead into the spaces
>> between all those pieces (prolly after pre-heating the whole thing),
>> and cap the top with a nice solid mass to anchor your dies to :)  I
>> keep hearing about such things, but as a younger guy I haven't seen
>> it.  Lead is one of those things people advise simple avoidance on
>> when possible, like the good advice I've gotten about galvi.  Lead
>> would be a fun day project though, I think, if well-contained.
>>
>> ~ben
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:08 AM, <PlumDon at aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What about jamming all the 1/2" round and square  you could, longthwise,
>>> into
>>> a 6" pipe.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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