[TheForge] Re: air hammer

[Jerry Frost]

I don't see a factor for the Auto drive unit or is that 
the "gas engine that didn't work"?

Personally I felt that drive system had more artistic 
appeal than anything I've seen outside the Red Green 
show. (Now unavailable here. <sigh>)

I have to agree about restoring or just installing one 
of the big self contained hammers. Just getting one 
here would cost more than building the equivalent. (or 
close)

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

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>
> 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