janosch

thank you all so much for your warm welcome and your interest in my problem. I have searched the Web for quite some time now and since the company Kuhn doesn't exist anymore, there is no actual information on this particular hammer anywhere to find. I had a very nice conversation with a Mr Waspel from the company "angele", the successor and provider of spare parts for these old hammers from Germany and it gave me the confidence to open the hammer and remove a little spring loaded ball in the air valve right before the front piston. as I cleaned it the hammer started to punch very hard and quite fast but didn't move up anymore. I managed to adjust the lever inside which is connected to the footlever outside and voila-it runs smooth as new. The air that comes out maybe caused by a "nutenstein" as you call it in German, it's the guidance of the up and down motion of the "bär", the Hammer itself and this nutenstein may be worn out. I am going to check it, but this means to remove all the parts of the front piston and I don't have time for that right now. today in the afternoon I forged a kindling splitter just like the one torbjörn ahman showed in one of his latest videos. it was fun and it was very satisfying to fell the "new" power of my little powerhammer. thank you all so much, my best regards Jan

hello there, I am brand new to this forum, because I live in Germany and I couldn't find any help here for my problem. I am working with a Kuhn Reiter K0 for the past six years and never had any trouble. Recently though, there is an issue with the hammerhead, quite a bit of air comes out while the head is beating down and the beating has lost a bit of its force. I checked the belt and they are tight as ever, the oilflow is normal and everything is well coated, so I think ist a problem with the silling of the front piston. Can anybody help me get an exploded drawing of that particular model K0 so I can plan, what to open and to do? I contacted Angele, but they couldn't help me with that. Any help and suggestions are very much appreciated. Sorry for my bad knowledge of the right terms, I hope Best regards, Jan