[TheForge] air hammer follow up

[Ries Niemi]

Although I have thought about it, I have never made or bought  
alternate die sets- I just run flat dies, and then use spring swages  
and hammer tooling for everything. Changeover is much quicker- I use  
vise grips, and can change tooling really fast.
So it never even occured to me to look if the tup on the Anyang goes  
up into the top casting or not.
I am in Argentina for two months, and the hammer is in Washington,  
some many thousands of miles to the north- so I will not be checking  
it any time soon.

I would say that, to me anyway, the 100lb Kuhn did not seem like more  
machine than the 88lb Anyang, but again, my Anyang is two piece, which  
means that the anvil is much heavier than the one you are looking at.  
The one piece may different.

ries


On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:06 PM, James wrote:

Thanks for the input on the air hammer question, Ries.

Talked to both dealers, I know James at Anyang a little bit.

Brian, who sells Sahinler, says the top of the die on the Anyang goes  
back into the top (is that the "tup"?) when the ram retracts and that  
limits the use of wide TOP tooling on the Anyang which is affixed to  
the die, whereas the Sahinler has no such problem, issue, whatever.   
Of course, he is selling his hammer too.

Since my only experience is my little Moloch 25, I have no experience,  
nor have I seen much in the way of hammers other than on the Internet.

The Sahinler 100# SM 50 is $11k and a little more w/ 3 phase electrics  
w/ 2 sets of dies.  The Anyang 88 a little less than $9k.

Most of my hammer work so far (8 years) has been to taper smaller  
stuff and texture all sorts of stuff, up to 3" (mostly flat bar) and  
3" is a real stretch for my Moloch.

James
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