Torque required for hammer to self right?

[daveimi]

Feather axes don't have much of a problem, it's more the heavyweight axes as the forces involved are a lot higher but the motor technology the same. So it's the same resins holding magnets in place, same materials bearings are made of etc. For some reason electric axes never seemed to scale up well, but some of the feather electric axes have been really reliable.

A lot of the big heavyweight axes (thor, team hurtz etc.) have tried electric power and moved over to gas as it never seemed to scale up as well.

In the same way, gas powered featherweight axes are rare as the technology is hard to get in weight, but at heavyweight a lot of the same regs n valving is used so the weight isn't so much an issue. I've never built an axe, can only comment on seeing the experience of others etc.