I now have the completed anvil mounted on the 50. This involved mounting the billet on the mill table on its back side with a fence on one side of it and a huge 90 degree angle on the other, all sandwiched together and clamped down. The slot was cut with a 4" cutter with brand new carbides, very slow, and gentle. That turned out great. I then...
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I have the landlord problem straightened out. Involved starting a thoroughly thought out conversation opening with a pre-emptive apology. He also apologized. Big relief for both of us. Onward.
Spoke to the concrete contractor and he's running behind schedule. No problem.
Spoke to an old customer. He's gotten too old to forge and I bought...
Spoke to the concrete contractor and he's running behind schedule. No problem.
Spoke to an old customer. He's gotten too old to forge and I bought...
This morning I unloaded the trailer and put everything away. Took several hours. Was just finishing that up when a customer arrived to pick up his machine. I drew out a rr spike and then had him do it. Then we went through the machine's details top to bottom. I even partially disassembled the cabinet to show him details. Also walked him through...
I am home from a Friday morning through Sunday afternoon trip to a Berryville, Virginia hammer-in featuring James Viste from Detroit and an Iron Kiss 50. I talked to friends and acquaintances, saw old customers, met some folks very likely to become new customers, ate good food, bought a nice square headed hand hammer, a brand new Porter-Cable pancake air...
At the shop all day after taking #1 to the airport. I had borrowed a pickup from the friendly landlord (one of a family of four owners) and I returned it after getting to the 3rd world, thabnking the guy sincerely. The mechanics met me immediately and, once I okayed the front axle differential deal they proposed, they hopped to it and had the truck...
I had the rear brakes fixed today in the F150 and that was needed. But it did not solve one of the two noises. Turns out the second noise was coming from the front (FWD) axle and my mechanic says the axle is badly broken and possibly junk. He was working on it with helpers full bore when I left and he promised me fast and as cheap a fix as possible. He...
I worked mostly at home today. That and lotsa running around for supplies. I did test the 50 for this coming weekend and dressed two pairs of dies. The hammer works nicely.
Young Mike is in Florida visiting for this week, so he cannot do the machining for me for a week. Should be no problem. I turned the weld be in the lathe, verified that the bottom of the solid is square to the sides after welding, chased the threads in the solid bottom, and installed the bottom wafer. Ordered cast iron for the V-guides. Had the F150...
I just got done talking to the contractor who will be starting on the floor of my "new" building at home, probably late this week. So in the next few days I have to get the remaining stuff removed from the stall he is going to do, and do preparations for Spring Fling and pay my taxes and do an owner manual for a used machine that I'm...
I tig welded the tup this morning. Getting better at tig welding all the time. :-) I left it too cool and went home to load up scrap items for recycling. The all terrain forklift is earning its keep this week. There is plenty of work to be done clearing out items stored in the building, after today most of the stuff is to be palletized and stored in a...
