The Rhino Hammer is an effective but brutish air-powered tool for removing tabbed parts from a sheet of laser-cut steel. Here's how:
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Here it is on slightly larger parts:
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And knocking parts out of a 1/4"-thick grade 50 steel sheet:
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As someone whose hands go numb when using a sander for too long—yes, even with the silly vibro-gloves on—I cannot imagine using this tool at length. I understand that they made it handheld for convenience's sake, but I do not envy that worker, or at least I wouldn't in ten years' time. I'd love to see some ergonomics-minded design firm tackle this.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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The Rhino Hammer, a Tool for Quickly Removing Laser-Cut Parts from the Sheet
This is clearly for smaller fab shops that don't have an endless stack of sheets to process every day that would justify the purchase of a large, room-sized machine that can do this on its own. They're working over a Husky cart so a $60,000 table is probably out of the question.
That does not look comfortable. I recall years ago visiting a printing plan where they did cereal boxes and they used a pneumatic hammer to separate the waste cardboard from the 3 ft tall stacks of printed and die cut boxes.