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7:49 pm
October 21, 2011
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Hello
First of all, I'm not looking to buy a hammer right away, I simply want to see who has what out there and what they are asking price wise.
I saw a friend's #50 Star hammer and was surprised to see how small and compact it was..Small enough to feasibly fit in the corner in my very small shop space. Unfortunately he doesn't want to sell it.
Anyways...is there anyone out there who has a smaller 'starter hammer' comparable in size and weight that may be up for grabs in the not too distant future?
I currently am not particularly interested in acquiring an air hammer, I would prefer something old, simple which can run off of a 110v power supply...Ohh yes, and small 🙂
Anything out there??
Thanks, Iain
11:27 pm
April 7, 2011
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The Tire Hammer is a nice little machanical hammer. You can attend a work shop and get in for about a grand. Buy one ready built for about 25 hundred.
Kenyon hammers are nice for a utility air hammer and can be built reasonably. Ron has a new design now and John Emerling has some videos on YouTube showing it.
Wayne Coe
Artist Blacksmith
669 Peters Ford Road
Sunbright, Tennessee
423-628-6444
[EMAIL=waynecoe@highland.net]waynecoe@highland.net[/EMAIL]
http://www.waynecoeartistblacksmith.com
2:49 pm
November 8, 2010
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I bought the blueprints for the tire hammer a while back and if I ever get my ADD in check I will probably put the pieces together 🙂 I wish somebody sold a "Dupont Linkage Kit" like they do those air hammer kits 😉
The only thing I do not like about them is the tube-in-tube ram guide with the UHWM plastic bushings. I just don't think it would hold up as well as I would like. I base this on the fact that I stayed in a Holiday Inn last night, so take it with a grain of salt 😀
You could always go with a straight-six helve and fall back on K.I.S.S 🙂
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6:17 pm
May 13, 2010
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Trust me the UHMW will last a long time. I used it for my hammer when I built it over 10 years ago and tapped holes to push in the plastic as it wears. The bolts have not been tightened yet. Every year or two I spray a little moly lubricant or graphite spray on it as opposed to any other bearing which would need regular lubrication.
1:39 pm
November 8, 2010
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Yeah JNewman I know it's slick as snot. I bought a sheet of it along with the other parts to build a hammer.
Thing is there are no provisions for tightening it in the original prints. I'm not sure what causes it, but I have seen a couple of hammers where the material kept wanting to slide out of the top of the ram guide on the upstroke.
Not sure if it was a design, material or construction issue. Maybe it was caused by the side to side motion near the top of the ram guide? I'm no rocket surgeon so all I can do is relay what I have seen 🙂
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1:47 pm
May 13, 2010
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I don't know about the tire hammer but all I did was make up a plywood template that I used to drill and tap the tube. I then used the same template to drill and countersink the plastic, flathead machine screws with locktite were then used to fasten the plastic to the tube. I think the plastic may have swelled a little around the screw heads, a sharp blockplane cleans that up easily.
10:43 pm
November 8, 2010
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Yeah that's the difference maker. With the tire hammer it's pretty much free-floating. If I remember correctly there are caps on the top and bottom of the guide which are supposed to stop the bushing material from sliding out.
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