[TheForge] Re: air hammer

[Mike Spencer]

Ries wrote:

> I know a bunch of guys with big self contained Nazels and
> Chambersburgs....But they are not cheap. In fact, even if you got
> one for free, it wouldnt be cheap.

Just off the top of my head, the numbers for my 300# A&O look
something like this:


   Footing             $1000
   Foot. hardware        200
   Foot. misc            200

   Move & install hammer
    5 mi. crane truck    250

   Machine shop, stock   400
   Pulleys, belts etc.   150

   Gas engine that 
     didn't work         100
   Deutz diesel engine  1500
   Move engine 150 mi.   100
   Deutz  manual         100
   Engine sundries       200
                      ------

   Total               $4200

which doesn't include the value of the 100# Palmer Power Spring Hammer
(cost me $100 in 1968 plus a 2000 mi. trip to fetch home it from
Massachusetts) I swapped off for the A&O or the many hours of messing
around I've put into overhaul, repairs, modification,  failed
power schemes etc. Nor does it include making tooling (now in hand) or
contemplated modification of the dies, estimated at a few hundred
bucks.


So yeah, Ries is quite right.  Even "free" isn't cheap.

But that's less than $1000 per annum for, well, call it entertainment,
at least so far.  How much quality time on a good golf course could I
get for that, eh?


FWIW,
- Mike

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