Tilt Hammer machinery, hammer head off to left of photo. The iron cam ring is at the center behind the large gear with the wooden hammer beam extending to the left. The forge was built around 1740 and made wrought iron wagon tires and sythe...
Saugus Iron Works, Saugus, Massachusetts restoration project. Demonstration of the forge hammer. Three hundred years ago, ironworkers cast iron sows (bars) at the blast furnace. In the forgess finery and chaffery furnaces the sows were heated...
This soft impact hammer is made with faces of DuPont nylon. Although it is extremely impact resistant, the nylon does not mar soft metals which makes it particularly suitable in this application.
The same kind of work planning which makes jobs easier in DuPont plants also reduces fatigue in DuPont households. Dave Gillon, of the company's Chambers Works, registered for the stroboscopic camera the motions he used in pounding a hoop around...
