Bentiron1946 Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 I was cruising You Tube and found this fellows take on the power hammer. Enjoy. YouTube - IRON MAN BLADES PROCESSING CYCLE, YouTube - IRON MAN - The big hammer and YouTube - IRON MAN - BIG GUST HAMMER . I like the counter balanced hammer he uses on the billet too. It looks like he is using an air motor on the power hammer but I couldn't be sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keykeeper Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Those are pretty cool videos. Seems the spring setup has a lot of motion to worry about, though. Lot of steel moving in all sorts of directions. The design looks like a helve hammer of sorts. Sure would like to have one of those anvils, though. Very nice ones, IMHO. Thanks for those links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nett Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 The motor is hydraulic, you can clearly see two lines leading to it in the 'Big Hammer' video. I watched the another video first and swore I saw electrical cord running into it and figures it was an electric motor with maybe an electric clutch. I believe the power cord runs the hydraulic pump that is located just behind and under the anvil. If engineered correctly, hydraulics can be extremly efficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 the front spring looks suspiciosly like one of the springs from the seat of an old fashioned wagon spring seat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 It sure is a lot of metal moving around at one time. I guess the double spring is necessary to because of the rigid helve arm. Hydraulic motor? I would never have thought of that. I saw some video of guys forge welding using hydraulic presses which looked strange to me but it sure worked. I thought the anvils were nice too but I'm not sure I would use them for a power hammer. I would have a better use for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavymetalforge Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 get it hot...hit it hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 I guess you'd only lean forward to get a good look once. I gotta say I'm not terribly impressed, way more moving metal than necessary and it's spread out over several feet in all three dimensions. Just too many things to go wrong for too little versatility and too weak and slow a blow. Thanks for the videos. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Browne Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I'm impressed with it working but agree with Frosty that its too complex for what is needed. I really like the heavy hammer on the spring idea though :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myloh67 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 :rolleyes:Keep on tryin i suppose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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