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Air hammer (fabrication)

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aluminum aircraft. The other new device, hitting at twice or three times the speed of the rivet gun, was the stone carver's hammer – a great blessing for smooth and rapid dressing of granite and marble.
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In the 1920s, two pneumatic devices were invented that would permanently change the way metal and stone were hammered. The pneumatic rivet gun was originally developed to set hot rivets on
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for the purpose of straightening auto bodies. For the next 25 years his "Ram's Head Body and Fender Machine" improved and increased production for
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Free-standing air hammers are an adaptation of the hand-held version. An air hammer can stretch or shrink (shape) a variety of metals, from thin
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hammers, both hand-held for auto body work, and also free-standing ones, with a variety of throat depths for industry and manufacturing.
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Post-war industry brought many new applications for the "air hammer" technology. Among these were:
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Each of these tools has a different purpose despite nearly identical appearance in many cases.
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A general tool that can be used to free frozen nuts, insert pins, and align holes.
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company in Chicago marketed a number of "destined-to-be-classic" pneumatic
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adapted the original stone carver's hammer into a portable hand-held steel
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The following are various tools that can be used in an air hammer:
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and high steel buildings. This tool was later scaled down for
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men all over the U.S. Copying Hauschild’s patented design, a
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Air Power Hammer shrinking 14-gauge steel demonstrated
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Index


pneumatic
hand tool
carve
stone
metal
tools
universal joints
tie-rod
ball joints
shock absorber
exhaust pipe
rubber bushings
aircraft aluminums
steel

adding to it
girder bridges
sheet metal
monocoque
F.J. Hauschild
tube frame
auto body work
pneumatic tool
planishing
World War II
flow forming
sand casting
destruction guns
needle scalers

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