[TheForge] Sash weight

[Bruce Freeman]

Hardly surprising that sash weights make good weights and little else.
 I have seen some that I might try machining if I were in need of cast
iron, but it's probably a bad bet.

However, they do make good weights.  I use pieces of four (square)
sash weights as weights in the ram of the Grasshopper Hammer.  The
hammer is balanced with the heaviest top tool in place.  Remove a top
tool, and substitute corresponding weights (8 lb, 4 lb, 2 lb and/or 1
lb).  These slip to the bottom of the tube and add their mass to the
blow.  A string from the eye of the weight makes it retrievable.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> Daniel;
> The sash weights i've seen were all cast iron...and funky cast iron at that.
> They make very good sash weights...pf
>
> Daniel Kretchmar wrote:
>> I just received a sash weight as a gift.
>>
>> Anybody know what they are made of?  It's pretty rusty. It looks like
>> cast iron, but I suppose it could be wrought iron.
>>
>> Danr
>> www.irontreeworks.com
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Bruce
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