santisandreas

hello everyone i am working on my first gas forge which is a used central heating furnace converted into a forge. my father helped me construct it since he is an engineer and has some experience from working with central heating over the years. now i am starting to doubt my decision to use the furnace since is has a lot of excess metal on it which might absorb a lot of heat from the fire. At the begging we constructed a burner using a video from you-tube from David Hammer which was good for a first one but didn't have the capacity to heat such a large chamber. then we decided to build it from the inside with fire cement and pieces of bricks so it will have better insulation. this is gonna have two burners the one we built and a burner from Rex over at hybrid burners. view the images and tell me what you think, if you please. thanks in advance. keep in mind this is our first attempt in doing something like this. btw does anyone know why the images rotate when uploading them? how to fix this? kind regards, Andreas Santis.

this is a good one. very handy. i was thinking of making a hold down but now i will look for this one. seems much better than the simple one i was gonna make. i'll do both basically. thanks a lot for this

thanks a lot for your knowledgeable answers and the support on the 'thin' issue that was going around my mind these past few weeks. Frosty your advice was very helpful. i will think about getting the press then since it is at a very good price as well, 700 euros actually and it comes with a lot of tooling that the owner used to do cold work.. it will be a good addition to my workshop. thanks a lot for your help. I've been reading a lot of posts on the power hammer section and looking for plans but i haven't been lucky until now except from one threat about plans from artistblacksmith.com whch i will take a look at in a while.another thing is that i am just a begginer in these subject and it is tough to decide which hammer would be better to make. does anyone have any links for plans? for sale or to print? i will continue reading and looking but any help would be appreciated.

thanks thomas. i will look into the home built ones. thanks

ok thanks a lot for that. are there any info on this site on home built tire hammers? is it a good idea to use the band saw as a driving mechanism instead of a tire? do you think thats possible?

sorry for the images i cannot get them to be straight. please save them and rotate if you have a problem with viewing. here are some more images of similar machines which i found online. maybe they will give you a better idea of what i am talking about.

hello everyone, i am only a beginner in blacksmithing and a thin person as well which is kind of an issue if you wanna do a heavy work like blacksmithing, because of this I've been looking lately of ways to acquire a power hammer which will help a lot with the forging of heavy metals. i am ok with forging metals up to 16 mm thickness but beyond that becomes too much and i get too tired. I've been looking for ways of building one from schematics since my father is able to help me because he is a mechanical engineer and we thought of taking a woodworkers band saw machine and modify it to become a power hammer, but these plans are all into ideas now. while searching for ideas we've found a Raskin press machine which works kind of like a power hammer with 15 ton pressure output and we've been wondering if it could run as a power hammer if the tooling is changed. the owner used it to punch holes into 3mm metals. it has the capability of continues hitting or a single hit. i do not have a video and the pictures are not that good because the man was kind of in a hurry but can you take a look and tell me what you think? thanks in advance. the specs are: RASKIN type 14 TINC 14TONS PRESSURE DATE: 09/06/52 Belgium

haha.. you are right ronin, in a way but i was asking that because maybe it was worth much less than what i paid for it. or much more. as it turns out i got it for a good price. thank you all for your comments. you have been very helpful.. i will post some pics from the work that will follow..

thanks a lot for your nice words. i fastened it today to a stump.. here are the images... does anyone know how much is its worth? thanks a lot anw