[TheForge] Power hammers

[Andrew Vida]

peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:
> 
> On 12/20/2010 1:06 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>> Kim George wrote:
>>> What ever happened to the self contained hammer that was made in
>>> Turkey? The quality was good as I remember. None of this tear it down
>>> and rework it out of the crate.
>> Sahinler.  All I remember was at the 98 Conference the one they fired up
>> started smoking in under 5 minutes and went tits-up.  The German hammer
>> worked all day without a hiccup.  Draw from that what you may.
> Think Mark K said there were over long rubber hoses in it that 
> overheated and fried. Shouldn't have been rubber at all.
> Wasn't that the conf ( i missed it) that Mark won the junk yard hammer 
> contest with his self contained JYH?

The one with the rear axle?  That was a fabulously creative solution.