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[EaglesCC]

Sorry to disappoint those hoping to find a working suggestion here... 

But I can't be the first to think some sort of mechanical devise would be useful given how many bats we tend to go through here.
Most definitely the worst part of buying a new bat for me... As well trying to find the time to do the pain staking work.

Anyone tried making one? Anyone done it successfully?

[Bambooman]

There are a few designs around, Chase have one and I have seen others based on similar concepts. Black Widow use a jack hammer with a rubber tip!
I have a design concept myself but I'm not telling

[GDP1964]

B&S are awaiting final production  and delivery is looking early Jan 2015 we can adjust hardness of hit longer time spent in crucial areas IE Toe Area fully automatic or hand controlled a well known brand in Australia has been using this machine  and to date all bats put  through this machine have shown a zero percentage return . Prices will be displayed on our site once all is finalised

[EaglesCC]

B&S are you suggesting this will be a machine marketed/ affordable for small
Businesses and individuals?

As it is I wasn't referring to anything industrial strength- more something some one like me can cobble together for personal use. Some ideas.

[GDP1964]

No this machine will be used for our own bats and will offer a knock in service to individuals and manufactures

[EaglesCC]

 

[TBONTB]

 

How much and where can we get one?! It would not take that much modification to make that work!

[EaglesCC]

That was a kind of a joke. The picture is of Leonardo DaVinci's cam hammer.

But yes the principle would work

[smilley792]

The davinci machine would work with a few mods. But my fear is it's a gravity fed machine.

Would gravity supply a sufficient enough strike?

Off course you can add a holder to add weights, so start off just hammer head, add abit of weight, add more until your happy with the bat.

Or you could look to add a spring or similar, to help force the hammer down when it's released.


Add a motor, and you just have to feed the bat in and out.

[EaglesCC]

I think the concept would work with a multispeed drill attached to where the handle is and a hydraulic action to power the motion of the hammer...  I agree it wouldn't work on gravity alone.

[tim2000s]

I think the concept would work with a multispeed drill attached to where the handle is and a hydraulic action to power the motion of the hammer...  I agree it wouldn't work on gravity alone.

If you are using hydraulics, there is little point in having the cam hammer in the first place...

[EaglesCC]

Fair enough. I know that the industrial strength ones use a punch motion which is achieved by hydraulics. Perhaps some other mechanism to make this move. I guess for domestic use speed is less important.

[InternalTraining]

Anyone tried making one? Anyone done it successfully?

Well, I don't have a mechanical solution but I recently did try a home-made contraption and it works very well for me. I was knocking my CA SM-18 and  found it difficult to hold the bat in one hand and use the mallet with the other. I needed something to keep it down and still while I pounded the face of the bat with my mallet. I have this old bedlounge back rest in the house which I don't use. That poor cushiony platform did the trick for me. I rested the bat face up on it and give it a few whacks with the mallet. Never saw a bat whipped into shape so fast. 

[EaglesCC]

How much and where can we get one?! It would not take that much modification to make that work!

http://www.amazon.com/RLT-Industries-12131-Leonardo-DaVincis/dp/B003LZWTEG

[joeljonno]

I am sure Nixon has one at Malton. Something to do with an attachment to one I his machines.