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I am writing this post in order to appease and convince the all knowing, all powerful, metal shaping forum overlords of my worthiness.
I build Yoder style power hammers here in California and am currently involved in further development of the mechanisms and drives for these machines. I will be undertaking a new build of making and developing a Pullmax style reciprocating machine. Since I stumbled upon AllMetalShaping and saw some wonderful topics in the search I figured Id love to be a part of sharing information in the metal working field. There is an old saying "No man is your friend, No man is your enemy, Every man your teacher." I believe this is true, and I also think it never hurts to have a few friends along the way that share similar interests. Fritz |
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Fritz,
Where are you in Northern California? I'm in Stockton.
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imho, I think everyone here is a student looking for that next worthy teacher/lesson...
Welcome to class, Fritz...
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Welcome Fritz to AllMetalShaping. No all knowing all powerful overlords here. Just a few unappreciated folks who spend a lot of time and their own money trying to keep the site free from riff-raff and spammers. Consider the requirements your price of admission to the group.
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Kerry Pinkerton |
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Subscribed. Be interested in seeing some photos of these hammers.
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Gareth Davies |
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Well Kerry, everyone's contributions is appreciated in my book, writing an intro post is a small price to pay for the opportunity.
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.
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Fritz |
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We agree! tell us about your machines? There are several folks here who have built Yoder clones and the discussion about power hammers is pretty robust. Same for reciprocating machines.
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Kerry Pinkerton |
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Hey Gareth, heres a few pics of the recent PH build. I did away with the old school square dovetail dies and all that nasty shimming. It uses pinned round dies. This one runs on a DC motor, all future builds I will most likely use a VFD.
The entire machine is 3/8" plate with 1/2" reinforcement where the arms bolt to. There are no cast parts except for the motor pulley ![]() These pics might give some of you guys out there some ideas on your own build. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Fritz |
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Nice looking machine Fritz. Feel free to place and ad in the business classifieds. People are going to want to know prices and availability.
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Kerry Pinkerton |
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Will do Kerry, thanks for that info, didnt know you had a classified section. Wow this membership thing keeps getting better by the minute, haha.
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