hammertime

[bjansen]

A friend and I had a lead on a 25 lb trip hammer about 1.5 years ago...and long story short, we finally got it this past weekend. Overall, it was in great shape...we cleaned and cleaned, greased and painted.  All we need is a belt and a power cord and it will be up and running.

It turned out to be a beautiful machine ...dont mind our crude unloading methods.

   

   

   

   

   

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[Lin Rhea]

Looks great!

[tippit]

That is nice!

[Bill Kissner]

Brad, I can see you are really committed and getting in all the way. With the way you are tackling this knife making, I'll bet your knives turn out just as beautiful as your bows!

[Bobby Urban]

awesome - that is a game changer right there!

Is there any truth to the potential of the spring coming off and being dangerous??  The hammer we have in the shop has a welded on guard in the event there is a spring malfunction and I see plenty with the spring totally exposed - just curious as to what others know regarding this?

[bjansen]

Thanks for that question Bobby...I was wondering the same thing and was not sure if those guards I see were just for the spring or to guard against all the moving parts as well.  This unit came with a crappy full guard in place, but we were considering bolting on a simple circular plate in front.

Alternatively, if a guard were just intended to prevent a spring flying...could one just insert a longer bolt on the right hand side (see me second to last picture).  The bolt of course could not go all the way across, but maybe long enough so that a dislodged spring could not get away.

[Lin Rhea]

I think the idea is that the spring might break into smaller pieces and strike the user. This kind of tool has it's own inherent dangers so I guess it sort of removes one possible bad thing that could happen.

[bretto]

There was one identical to that on the local craigslist a couple of weeks ago.

Wish I would have been able to acquire it.

bretto