[TheForge] Grasshopper Treadle Hammer Plans Online?

[J. Petrila]

I'd buy a set of plans and binder right now.

I went looking not long ago for cricket plans and was out of luck.

Let's do this.  Thanks Jennifer

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On Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 5:15 PM <lorne at smithlist.net> wrote:

> I can put it on https://smithlist.net if you like, it gets a fair bit of
> traffic.
>
> Cheers,
> Lorne
>
> On 2025-10-28 22:05, Bruce wrote:
> > Some of you may remember my Grasshopper Treadle Hammer.  Back a decade
> > or
> > more, I sold plans for this hammer via ebay.  I quit doing that because
> > I
> > couldn't even break even on it.  (It's about 120 pages and I sold it in
> > a
> > binder.)
> > I'm thinking of posting it online for viewing and there are a couple
> > considerations I need mull over before I could do that.
> >
> >    1. Should I revise the plans first, and, if so, how?  When I
> > designed
> >    this treadle hammer, I did not myself know how to weld.
> > Accordingly, some
> >    of the assembly is by screws and bolts, and some of these might
> > better be
> >    welded.  In principal, I could modify all relevant drawings to
> > indicate
> >    welds, but this could take a long time to accomplish as it would be
> > a fair
> >    investment in time (always short).  Alternatively, I could annotate
> > where
> >    welding be recommended in lieu of the indicated fasteners, either on
> > the
> >    drawings themselves, or on a separate sheet listing such changes,
> > the
> >    latter being the least work & time required.
> >    2. Where could I post it?  Perhaps on my Grasshopper webpage -- if
> > it
> >    can accept this quantity of drawings.  Perhaps in Google Docs, in
> > which
> >    case I'd want some way of limiting access to read-only. (I think
> > that can
> >    be done, but haven't used Gdocs enough to know.)
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Bruce
> > NJ
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