[TheForge] Air hammer info

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

Unfortunately, the guy who's built at least one and knows a lot about 
them is
Mark Krause..presently unfairly incarcerated.

On 1/26/2011 9:16 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> I got a call last night from one of our members that was interested in
> building a self contained air hammer. He was thinking of using two comercial
> made air cylinders, a 5" driven by a 3hp motor and a 3" to drive the 50lb
> ram. Have any of you done this or seen this done?
>
> My self contained has a 9" piston driven by a 5hp motor and a 7" piston
> driving the 75lb ram.  My main concern was the size of the ports on the
> cylinders.  My hammer has huge air ports to move a lot of air between the
> two cylinders.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
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