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Michael,
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Phil,
I would love to see the 18 squ forged. Dig up that video. -
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That's no gentleman! That's Bob Bergman!
It's the economy. Forging toothpicks in Wisconsin.
Bob Bergman, gentleman, scholar, and all around good guy. -
Finally? Well thats a kick in the head...
Does that say heat me or beat me.
Maybe you should take your hammer to France. -
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Nice to see the photos and sorry to hear no one works they now. In the late 1970's we had horseshoe making contests there during their fall festival. I worked in the shop a little when I was there. The building was brought over from England or Scotland I believe.
Thanks for the photos.
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Michael,
Yes we had some 3" dia 4140 and forged a bar to cut into lengths for flatters. Worked real well. -
Yes PV is a great place and should be supported. I will be there teaching a class starting June 4th. We still have room for a few students.
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Ask Clay about the tips of his fingers up in Co on a snowy day. A treadle hammer weld broke at the wrong time. I don't think it was one he built but it sure did a job on the fingers to the joint. Someone asked him to look at the hammer, he put his fingers on the bottom die and looked at the back of the hammer. The weld broke at that moment and the hammer head caught his fingers.
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Dave,
Saw photos of your 3B rebuild and install. Does your flywheel have grooves for the v belts? What is the serial number? Any history on the hammer? I have a 3B with v-belts but has gear teeth on the flywheel. I am running 5 belts. I believe mine was built in the mid 20's. I have a 1B I am rebuilding with 2 belt grooves in the flywheel.
Thanks,
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I have removed part #3 from my 1B and 3B. Both had 2 threaded holes in the top which I attached a flat bar to with a swivel eye centered between the 2 threaded studs. I used a overhead gantry crane to lift them out. The part #3 on the 3B is quite heavy and I would not want to pull it without some hoist system.
Both slid out easily.
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Ric
Is the squeaking noise coming out of the muffler? Have you done anything to the linkage between the upper and lower valves that might have changed the timing? How long has the hammer been squeaking? It very well could be the timing is off causing the noise. If the timing is not off I'd next check the bypass valve. To check the timing you’ll have to pull the bypass valve chamber off anyhow you might as well check the over all condition of the valve and spring.
You mentioned in your video you have a new larger bottom die. Did you also make a new wedge? The wedge should have a compound taper - 1/8" per foot at 5 degrees.
Ric,
What size are your new dies? In the video the bypass valve doesn't appear to have much movement. Will the ram go all the way into the hammer and park there when you are not forging? A friend of mine took a pair of vice grips and clamped them to the stem of the bypass valve and it allowed the ram to park.
Thanks,
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Clinton,
It is a barnes 16 gpm 2 stage pump. I got it from Surplus Center. 1-800-488-3407
My Baldor motor came with the pump adapter.
I think Northern Hyd. carries the pump also.
Randy,
If you look at the damascus photo, sorry I didn't realize it was such a big file, you can see how the dies drop in the bottom and slide in the top.
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Did you draw them to 3/4" oct. and leave about 10" at 1 1/4" on the bottom? Flat dies?
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In 1985 I was in Aachen Germany at the International Center for Metal Design studying under Manfred Bredohl. I went to Liege Belgium a number of times to the museums. One was on firearms and had an excellent display on the making of Damascus Gun Barrels. The last production shop forge welding Damascus barrels was in 1925. I have photos of the smiths at a coal forge with bellows and their leather shoes are set aside and they are working in wooden clogs.
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I have to agree with Dillon, that IS awfully clean Glenn! Normally I would express some degree of envy for your three Nazels but recently some of the mean guys here have posted pictures of their dozen or so "working" hammers, so I'm not going to set myself up for more envy pangs.
Nice shop you have there Glenn. Sorry, I have a personal problem calling a working metal shop a studio. That's just me though.
Frosty the Lucky.
Well Frosty the studio is clean and I did that for the clients coming to review the work I was doing for them. I didn't want them tripping over or running into something. Of course when I am working and there is more clutter then it looks like a shop.
Michael, the screen is a small gate I made many years ago in a Francis Whitaker workshop. Forge welded corners and all. -
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Interior photos of my studio. Photos were taken at 2 separate times, first the clients were coming to see the progress on their fireplace doors. 2 large ones were about 5.5' x 4.5' with arched top. I will attach a photo of one of these installed in an outside fireplace. The 2nd photo shoot was when I had a studio open house this past Nov.
I have a 2B and 3B Nazel hammers set up on the right side and on the left side of one photo under the blue grantry crane is a 1B I am rebuilding. To the right of the 3B is a Trip Air 35 or 40 lb. air hammer. I bought it in 1987 and it was the first one sold by 2 fellows in North Carolina. It was the before Big Blu, Kinyon etc. The Trip Air is what really started all the other small air hammers. I run it off a 5hp IR air compressor. Also KA 75 and a 24 ton hydraulic press which I built 4 years ago. Acorn platen table and several anvils, vises etc.
It is about 40' x 44' with 16.5 ceiling. Two 12' x14" overhead doors to the north.
One photo with 2 of us working and on the acorn table frame and doors for a 4' x8' fireplace
Clay Spencer's email address?
in Power Hammers, Treadle Hammers, Olivers
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CLAY SPENCER turns 79 on Monday Nov. 22. Everyone send him an email..
Clay@tirehammer.com