Steam Drop Forge Hammer-New from River Leaf Models

Very NICE !!!  ANDRE, ANDRE, ANDRE!!!!!

Very nice!!!!  wonderful craftsmanship 

Looks great. I am thinking it would make a really cool load for a well car, with the hammer parts on a second flatcar. 

 

Is the kit pre-painted? If not, what did you use to paint the sample? That is a really good job of making MDF look like cast iron. 

Now there's a really interesting piece. Nicely done!

All sorts of possibilities:

The company I worked for many years ago owned a subsidiary located in Milwaukee.

The Milwaukee plant had many drop hammers and all sorts of special tools.   They did more specialty work rather than mass production.    They had built the largest drop hammer in the world.    When I was there they tended to run it on Fridays.    The office building I visited about 1/2 mile away shook when the hammer hit!

 

The company also made a vertical rolling mill called a "ring Machine".   You had to take it apart to load the stock into it.    It is where the "rings" for the space shuttle boosters where made.    They made the rings and as far as I know not the seals between the rings.

Thank you guys!!
Southwest, the kit is not pre painted. The texture is the engraved MDF and painter using acrylic paint.

 

Thank you again for the information shared.

 

Andre. 

 

 

Just ordered mine!

 

Dave

You will not be disappointed!

 

Here is another video showing the use of the hammers.

The whole video is very interesting, those guys as counterweight kill me, so go to the minute 11 if you wan to see the hammer forging a connecting rod.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHIEudnoRYU

 

Andre.

Andre, 

 

Awesome model. This is a great addition to a locomotive backshop or manufacturing facility. 

 

I would love to see a press like this modeled in O scale. 

 

 

 

I had the opportunity to design several foundations for presses like these for a company I do work for. I am suppose to do more in the future. This would be cool for a modern or 40's layout. 

 

Also, when I was at Lehigh University for a structural design class for work, we toured their structural testing facility and they had in their one building a Baldwin press that was from Bethlehem Steel. These press is used to test beams. The baldwin press is about 8 stories height (About 72 feet)

 

 

Chris

I gotta get me one of those!

Thank you, Chris for the information.

The first press is pretty square, if you are willing to make all the details and drawing I can cut for you the main structure.

 

Aaron, check my website!

 

Andre.

 

Hi Andre,

 

This is a GREAT detail piece!  I'm going to send you a private email with a few questions about the lettering on the hammer.

 

Nick

       
       

Andre,

Thanks! I might take you up on that some day.

Chris

connecting rod die

 

The model stirred some vague memory and I found the photo. This is one of those great Jack Delano Kodachromes on Shorpy.com. Now there's a scene for your backshop.......

 

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4886

 

 

Thank you again!

I am making a oven to add in the set.

Hammers were "the" tool during steam era.

 

AG.

 

 

Here is the oven. Is a middle size for any machine shop.

the door is dummy. Make it work is possible but I don't need it.

 

AG.

Very nice Andre. The oven and the drop forge hammer will look great in a blacksmith shop located in an engine facility.

yes!

 

Andre,

The furance is awesome. Is the bottom opened or no? I can see putting an led to actually make it look like the fire is burning inside.

Chris

Tonight!

AG.

Would this hammer pass for a giant hammer in HO scale?  (I'm thinking of the Bethlehem steam hammer in particular.)

Aaron,

I can shrink it if you need to 75%.

let me know.

Andre.

Sounds good!  It will probably be a while, but I'll let you know when I'm ready to order one.