NickBalz

here is a neat little find 148# - the missing back mouse hole anyone have any ideas on how old this might be . can't make out the first half of the wrighting.

1 hp should do it. Belts look kinda tight. What rpm is the motor?

do you use a jig on your avil for the taper like this one.

Yes; but as brass is so easy to find in the scrap stream it's more often that I make my own 90:10 Bronze with pure copper and tin---for use in medieval replicas.

Modern pennies are a nice size zinc bit to make small amounts of brass with. Calculate how many you need of them and pure copper. melt the copper *first* add the zinc---it will flare at molten copper temps---allow for loss! Stir and pour ASAP!

Note that molten metals have their own safety rules---you drop a piece of hot steel it will hit the floor. You drop a bit of molten metal and it may hit the floor and come back up at you! You drip a little sweat on hot steel and nothing happens. *1* drop of sweat in a mold can result in death when casting metals! Also the fume dangers are there too. Zinc shakes are to be avoided at all possible and let us not forget the scary days when founders used to get arsenic prescriptions for the weekends so they didn't start getting the shakes.

this is my peter whright got it for 150$ thought that was a fair deal my uncle said anvils where going for $3.0# can someone tell me about the numbers on side I know they are for wieght perp.

here is a little kerri hard I got last year, I plan on making some dumascus blades if i can get it up and running to par, could any one give me any info on how big my motor should be the one i have is 1hp just had it here so i tryed it not anuff power though i don't think

Any one ever try to mix cu and zn to make thier own brass?

Hello all , after talking to a few guys I've decided to lower price of this great hammer . I was thinking of starting it up but I don't want to damage this great peace of machinery , I've been told that a 3b is worth any where from 6,000.00 not running to 16,000.00 running tip top. So I've decided to do this 8,500.00 or partial trade posable . That being said I would be more than happy to take 6,000.00 at time of pickup and the remanding 2,500.00 at the time you set it up in your shop and see that it runs , if it needs more than just miner work at time of setup we will just say that 6,000.00 was a good price and leave it at that, good faith on my part honesty on yours would that be fair ? The flywheel turns freely the ram moves freely seems all levers/valves are working I've cleaned it up a bit and oiled it. Nick

Hi names Nick and casting cu based alloys is my real job, we use graphit as a cover and only use charcoal if ox is high also when we hold in a bigger furnace we nitrogen I think been some time sence I cast strait cu . I work at a d.c plant/ we cool the bars we make with water. Good cover of graphit through the melting process should work or it does with a 30,000# furnace any way good luck , my dad always told me I could do anything I put my head to , I have found that to be true BUT sometimes I bite off more than I can chew .Nick

well I've cleand her up ! every thing moves smooth, now in next few days I will be seeing haw she runs, being i don't have this mach. set with anvil and all don't want to mess it up so will be useing phone pole for anvil and i don't plane on hiting hard with it. that beeing said I could use some info on the position of the lever to ingage hammer could any one help me out. here are some photos. I'm adding a photo of my kerri hard to, it is a 25# got it from a friend last year. thank in advance Nick

I have  gotten my hands on a nazel 2b it is 2 peaces and weighs about 11000# ,in good shape it seams , although it has been out side for about
6months . And unfortunately I don't think I can afford to put it in my small shop due to cost. Would any of you be interested in it ?
Comes with tooling and looks like new dies ? Thanks nick