Ha! beat me to it!James Nasmyth eat your heart out!
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and how would u alter the crank - stroke for diffrent thicknesses of metalIt'd be brilliant if you stuck a motor on it
Replace the linkages on top for big heavy leaf springs?and how would u alter the crank - stroke for diffrent thicknesses of metal
Is that why they're so big because the striking force equals the weight of the hammer, meaning it would have to be a huge, solid thing to hit hard without falling over?well the older ones used to be steam or others worked of a cam to raise it and it just dropped so thickness of metal was imaterial. whatever would fit in between
show a powered one then so we can all see how it worksYou never seen a treadle hammer before?
Better off with a flypress?
Wow, that's awesome, I love how it can be moved side to side.I agree that that treadle hammer is useless, standing on one leg trying to balance is going to be knackering. Plus the stoke rate is so slow, much easier and quicker with a hammer held in the hand.
If you want a proper power hammer you need a Blacker!
The one in the video above is a small one, there is a bigger one in the Wessex Guilds workshop at Cannington College in Bridgwater.
The vibration through the floor is immense, even though the hammer is mounted on railway sleepers in a pit in the concrete floor.
We used to let the girls from the equine college know when we were going to use the hammer so that they could ride their horses past to train them not to panic.