It followed me home

[ironrosefarms]

I went to my moms to work on her computer and ended up bringing some goodies home. Since Dad passed away just over a year ago he had many projects he had not finished. Most of those projects no else knew what they was going to be... most would have been to customize his motorcycle or his pickup...

Well mom gave me a 2foot by 4 foot sheet of very shiny stainless steel, move over chrome!!! This is about as thick as a box cutter blade and pretty stiff stuff. I also got a 3/8 inch round Stainless steel rod about 3 foot long...

I also got a weapon... as the story goes behind it my great grandfather made it while he was a blacksmith. It is a cross bow and although the "string" (steel cable) is broke now, back when I was a kid my dad fired it using some solid aluminum cross bow bolts he bought. When he tried to fire the solid aluminum shaft the cable split the shaft and stuck to the "string". Later he used an iron shaft of about the same thickness and it shot but was never again found. It won't use any standard "string" and honestly I doubt I will ever string it up... it is a monster to set the string and I'm not so sure about a steel cable stretched inches from my face...

So there is the stuff that followed me home!

James

[ThomasPowers]

Yes you can buy dies for it from the OEM; but they are pricy so know which ones you *have to have* I picked up a bench mount punch and had a friend break the punch doing a set of Ti scales for armour---he replaced it and it was still a lot easier and cheaper than trying to drill several hundered holes in thin Ti!

[Frosty]

I got replies this morning. Cleveland Punch and Roper Whitney have them available. W.A Whitney referred me to:

A-American Machine and Assembly

2620 Auburn Road

Rockford, IL 61101



Ph # 815-965-1792

Fax # 815-965-1049



sales@a-americans.com



I haven't priced anything yet but figure it'll probably be cheaper to buy a punch set from Horrific Fraught. Still . . .

Frosty

[canuk]

an arbor press came home with me from school today, its a bench top model and the screw is damaged but it was free and i can easily weld a flat piece of steel to drill holes into and fix the threads.

[KYBOY]

This nice 10# cross peen sledge came home from the flea market for only $10

[highlander]

I love garage sales.

2 sections of RR track about 2 foot long each: $5
2 8lb sledge hammers, one being crosspeen: $2
Bunch of files and a rasp: $4
Cobbler's anvil: $0.50

Getting junk out of other people's way: Priceless.

[kovacija(blacksmith)]

in my town there are no garage sales ! if a folk sels his house (and my dad do the electricity for new owner) I usualy get lot of hard iron rods...etc and sometimes hammers... but if I don´t have rasps or want to get more hammers
just go where is abandoned house (owner died with no children) or in the field houses and take what I want (usually nothing important)

I have a friend whose greatgreatgrandfather was a blacksmith and owns a pretty big anvil!(150years old) , but it is still like a memory to them so I must wait when they clean out the garage...
2)
a guy in the village on my island owns a complete workshop from his grandfather(blacksmith) still a memory to him... it has lots of hammers tongs and anvil, forge etc... dosen´t work in it!

can´t wait to his son grows up and "dump all of that garbage"

[JosephPrivott]

Coal!!!!

I would estimate 150lbs

price? f-r-e-e!

story is, a truck tipped over in the road, and spilled it all. I asked the guy whose lot it was in, and got permission for it all. I'm so releived, I was just running out. a local school has some for free too, and I'm going to get it as well since they converted to electric

[nett]

Highlander, are those hole punches in the sixth photo? Hole punches sized for EMT™ electrical fittings? Handy when you need them. Take care of them and apply oil when cutting holes. Good goings on all your booty.

[Glenn]

I got the wife's car inspected and the fellow threw in about 7 gallons of wheel weights with the sticker. They are now converted to ingots for storage till I can find a project that needs wheel weight material.