jameasun Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 Hello all, Today I have started gathering my materials for an appalachian hammer build. Several different peices of structural scrap metal were donated to me. I will be making due with what I have. Im looking to bounce a few ideas off you guys. If any of you have suggestions please post them. So far I have: 1 set of leaf springs 12" manual tranny flywheel 10' I beam 4" wide 7' channel 10" wide by 2" 4' sq tube 4"x4" .25" wall 4' pipe 8" dia. .375" wall 15' pipe 1" schedual 40 For the base I am thinking of using the 10" channel. Cutting it in half and welding it side by side. Thus making a 20"X42" peice. The web on the channel is only 1/4" so I will have the channnel faceing up. I hope this will allow me, down the road, to add a 1/2" backing plate to the bottom if I should need it to decrease vibration/noise. For the main spring tower a 5'6" piece of of 4" I beam For the cross supports more of the same I beam For the anvil I was considering the large pipe or 4" sq tube I will update as I progress... Quote
mat Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 i too am gathering scrap for a hammer,the anvil should be min of 10:1,better 15:1 to hammer/tup weight.i mention this as you said "For the anvil I was considering the large pipe or 4" sq tube" Quote
Frosty Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 How heavy are you planning on making the ram? I'm thinking the channel base is too light for even a 25lb. I'm thinking you need to go looking for an anvil, nothing you have is going to work well no matter what you do to it. The 4" sq. would make an okay ram but not adequate as the anvil, even if you cast it full of lead. Of course that's just my opinion I could be wrong, I'm used to it. Frosty The Lucky. Quote
jameasun Posted March 18, 2012 Author Posted March 18, 2012 So I got a good start today... Thinking of filling the anvil with RR tie plates Quote
peacock Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 You will better off if you sell your tie plates and any thing else you can do with out for scrap and spend the money on some solid round and sqyare stock as long as the pipe you are useing for the anvil and stuff it in the pipe end wwys then weld it all together as solid as you can. Even rebar stuffed in there and welded will wotk. Quote
jameasun Posted March 19, 2012 Author Posted March 19, 2012 Thank you, I will look around some more and see what else I can find. I would like to end up with a 40-50 lb hammer head Quote
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