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[Richard Fink Sr]

Steve talk about fun. Nothing better that a D9 pin on a hot summer day.
R Fink




At 08:16 AM 10/9/2009 -0400, you wrote:


>--On Friday, October 09, 2009 7:20 AM -0400 Stephen Offiler
><soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That would be my solution.  I don't have anything bigger than 8#  and
> > haven't found anything yet that I'd want it for.  Kinetic energy is
> > 0.5 x mass x velocity squared.  It's all about the speed, folks.  I
> > can accelerate the 8# a lot  better than I could  hope to do a 16#.
> >
> > Steve O.
> >
>   Steve O. : I understand the engineer in you about kinetic energy.  I also
>know you well enough that we have around the same mass and energy of swing.
>The former Cat, dealer mechanic in me knows we can swing that 16# sledge. I
>have the bad back to prove it. )-:
>A D-9 track master pin won't ever get up enough energy to laugh at an 8 #
>hammer. But I have taken many out with a 16# with a helper holding the B&O.
>Of course it that's me twice as many blows as someone twice my size. (-;
>
>Note. A B&O is a form of a sledge hammer. Same size handle. Head is around
>a foot long on each side, around 2" in diameter. About the same size as a
>track master pin. Called a B&O because it was used to help drive railroad
>track pins. Set the B&O on the in and drive it with the sledge.
>
>-steve
>
>Steve Sewell
>Albany, Ohio USA
>sewell at ohio.edu
>sewell at atis.net
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