[TheForge] Power Hammers

[Bob Ehrenberger]

With a US rep at least you would be pretty certan to get the hammer and not 
have it get stuck in customs. You would also have some place to contact for 
parts if needed.  It's good to know how your equipment works, but I would 
have perfered not to have to fix it first thing.

I'm sure if the market for forging hammers was big enough Harbor Freight 
would be offering them.   I see they have English wheels now, so they may be 
moving into more metal working equipment that a blacksmith would be 
interested in. Maybe fly presses someday too.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter fels & phoebe palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored 
by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Power Hammers


Similar story on a number of  the early Anyangs from China.
If the US rep didn't have a lot of backing, it'd make little difference.
It might be argued that they were cheaper than a worn out Chambersburg
and both needed rebuilding..sigh.

On 12/19/2010 3:22 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> If they had a US rep it might be worth a shot, but I see nothing but 
> trouble
> working directly with a company in China.
>
> I have one of the hammers that Tom Clark got from Pakistan, it looks a lot
> like these.  The basic design was good but they did a real poor job with 
> the
> finishing. It took me a couple months work to get it running right. 
> Needless
> to say Tom only got one shipment from that supplier, and then dropped 
> them.
> I was expecting to just build a base and mount a single phase motor, ended
> up tareing it down to the bare casting and working my way through it. It's
> been running for two years trouble free.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>   On 12/19/10 12:54 AM, peter fels&   phoebe palmer wrote:
>>> Different kinda chinese self contained PH?
>>>
>>> http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/383869539/Air_Hammer_C41_Series.html
>>>