Iron Kiss 50 power hammer

NickWheeler said:
Great stuff... :)

Is young Sam demonstrating the hammer is so good you don't even need to wear safety glasses? ;)
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I'm a big boy now and if I wanted a safety lecture, or a lecture on smoking (especially from another smoker0, i'm big enough to ask for it. :rolleyes:;)
 
Fair enough Sam... It's just that we only get two of those things and they're pretty hard to replace ;) :)
 
The IronKiss 50 pounder is indeed an awesome hammer! It was an absolute pleasure to run, exceptional control with alot of BaM behind it as it was with the bigger (90 pound?) hammer last year. Keep in mind also that those are flat dies, with drawing dies or even combo dies it would do that twice as fast. One thing that wasn't in the video was the stroke adjustment, which really allows for lighter planishing heats.

Even if you need to buy a compressor, this hammer will out hit any LG in the same size range, with double the control and a good bit more stroke. I worked it HaRD too, did not lightfoot the treadle, It is a very sturdy machine. The utility style action was nice. it cycled like a self contained hammer, but would single blow effortlessly light or hard, and the clamp feature was handy too.
 
Next time I get down to John's shop I'll try to get a "feature demonstration" video that shows the stroke height adjustment, etc. I was really digging the short stroke capability when I was doing some final planishing on some pieces.

-d
 
I was pretty suprised that running both hammers on my tired old quincy 5hp compressor was a non issue. Last year we ran the hammers by tying in a trailer style jack hammer compressor into my air line to back fill the tanks. This year we just ran both hammers off the quincy.

We had the big compressor here as a back up but never even hooked it up.

I was suprised how fast the 50 hits.

There are a couple additional short videos of the hammer with Chris Moss and Mike Lambaise on my youtube account as well.

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I have an Iron Kiss in 115# size. I've not made any damascus with it...yet, but have forged lots of 5160, O1, 1095 etc, as well as A36, etc.

I took the Power Hammer school in North Carolina 3 years ago, Big Steve from IL taught it. There were 4 Big Blu hammers, two were 150#. They were good hammers but my 115# hits harder and has more control. The stroke adjuster is a great feature, and I use the clamping feature all the time for twisting stock and as a quick, solid vise.

I have a 7.5 HP two stage DeVilbus compressor with 80 gal tank and it works fine. I already had the compressor long before I bought the hammer.

Ron Kinyon is my neighbor and he liked the Iron Kiss when he ran it as well.
 
Take note of the conditions there by the way. We were standing in 2" deep mud soup all weekend. The hammer was sitting on a 2'x3' piece of 3/4" plate buried in the mud with a piece of 3/4" plywood on top of it. Definitely not a fancy foundation. The video of Sam working posted above was done with the hammer effectively floating on mud....

-d
 
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