poleframer Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Ok I havnt been keeping up with enough, I"ll grab a round toit and do a thread on the latest hammer build. You all might remember the 1st hydraulic rusty/press that I messed around with. And got Rocky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Was doing some oak branches then, turned acorns on my lathe. First works from the forge with the power hammer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 My friend Tim, Siskiyouforge, was over at white city metals and picked up thers 20 inch stroke, 7 inch bore cylinders, the base and caps are 2.5 inches thick, but bit too tall for what I wanted to do. SO I cut them down to 14 inch stroke, and carefully cut off the botom tangs, and rethreaded the 1 inch tie rods. Cutting the 3.5 inch ram was a chore. Replaced all seals, I feel good with them. The lathe and the versamil are run with hydraulic motors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 The anvil is a 6x6 inch squart full pen weld on two 4x4 sq chunks welded on a 3x12x10 plate, the base is a 5 foot by 13 inch one inch thick base, 3x6 posts, 8 x 6 top. 65 lb hammerhead without the die, dump truck leaf spring pack, it weighs 65 lbs, the center pivot is on a small hyd ram that adjyste the hammer hight quickly. The 8 x 8 x 12 half inch thick piece of box tube welded in is for the 5" by 11 inch stroke press cylinder over the adjustable table. Power hammer with a 57 ton press with a 9 inch by 14 inch opening, 1 inch thick plates, and a 25 ton top down press with an adjustable table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 It tested with great satisfaction, nice control with the treadle to the hydraulic flow control valve, thats a 9.7 gpm gearoter motor turning the swashplate for the adjustable driveshaft in the rear. The plate has different hole settings for shorter or longer stroke, easy to set the blow height with the cyl under the pivot. And the beginnings of my sister hammer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Since I'm picking through the album, here's a bit about my nickname that I'm working on now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Getting it up and running in Tim's shop. He has a 15 hp 3 phase motor rinning a two stage .66/1.20 pump at 1750 rpm, probably 15 gpm, the 7 inch ram moves fairly fast, the 5 inch red one rips! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Oops hit post. Here are the rest of the pics, some examples of playing wiht the press. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 And a couple pics of mine in lace. Still some plumbing to do. And A press fixture I made, (those are ford 400 valve springs, keeping with the theme) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senft Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Great ideas, great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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