Day at work

Sam Salvati · Jan 25, 2010

Started out with 87 of these this morning

Ended up with 87 of these in the evening:

And here's the transition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g89zunNpYZE

69_knives · Jan 25, 2010

With that first pic I thought you were going to say you designed a hammer and have 87 hammers available for sale.

A C Richards · Jan 25, 2010

Sam,

It looks like your having waaayyy too much fun at work....

Mike Quesenberry · Jan 26, 2010

You've got a way cool job! Nice power hammer.

JTknives · Jan 26, 2010

69_knives said:
With that first pic I thought you were going to say you designed a hammer and have 87 hammers available for sale.

Thats what i thought as well

Phil Dwyer · Jan 26, 2010

What are you making them for?

WalterDavis · Jan 26, 2010

Farmer Phil said:
What are you making them for?

I think they're wagon wheels for the kids he doesn't like

deker · Jan 26, 2010

Farmer Phil said:
What are you making them for?

His boss

Or, judging by the title of the video, bolting stuff together!

Is it sad that that looks like more fun than my desk job?

-d

tobinsmith · Jan 26, 2010

I thought he was forging TIE fighters

Really, what are they?

Dan Seaver · Jan 26, 2010

Sam, has anyone told you that they are very jealous of your awesome day job? :thumbup:

Are you going to be cutting off one end, threading the end of the rod, and then drilling and tapping the nut?

g33kfu · Jan 26, 2010

That hammer is violent and awesome.

Nowicki · Jan 26, 2010

Yea....looks like you are having to much fun. Keep up the good work.

Sam Salvati · Jan 26, 2010

Thanks guys! It is a TON of fun, and it's hard work too, very satisfying. Before I left my own shop around the time I first got my powerhammer, I was fairly unsure about how to do more then tangs and tapers on it, I really am getting some VALUABLE experience on running a powerhammer in a production atmosphere where you are forging the same part over and over again. I went back home for a weekend, got some time in my own shop and it was like a revelation. It's like when you get to the point in your hand hammering where you know what you have to do and how to do it to get where you want so you just go to it. I just grabbed some barstock and went to town and it was a whole new world of possibilities for a very versatile tool.

tobinsmith said:
I thought he was forging TIE fighters

Really, what are they?

Best answer yet tied with the wagon wheel answer

Everyone keeps saying "why did you go and forge out those nice hammer blanks?" and i'm thinking "THANK GOD you don't work for estwing as a hammer engineer/designer" that shape as a hammer, you'd be breaking the faces off left and right! I'd be embarrased if I designed a hammer like that!

They are bolts, square head and will get a hex nut, I make the bolts and the nuts. They are forged this way so when you split them in the middle you get 2 bolts, much more efficient to forge them this way than doing them one at a time (especially when you have to make about 180 bolts).