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Two things of note; the use of a jackshaft to achieve what the smith determined was proper speed, all the more interesting because there is very lttle change in ratio. Second, the rather large flywheel and generous counterweights. I imagine the tup is pretty heavy.

Thanks fciron

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2 minutes ago, Judson Yaggy said:

Waaaay too slow, and not enough snap leading to ram dwell time on the work piece.  

Yeah, you can see the heat getting sucked out of the workpiece.

Is that something a leaf spring helve would fix?

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I would also increase the mass of the anvil system to put more umph back into the work---get a little closer to the 15:1 ratio...

BUT an excellent example of what people can do with what they have and I bet it's paid for itself thousands of times by now!

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