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[ptree]

I too am really looking forward to Quad State. For those who don't know me, look for the guy with the funny hat. No NOT a disreputable hat, that's ThomasP. I have a totally new hat design. I am planning to bring a fair supply of eggs and bacon for a Saturday morning feed. i will also be somewhare close to TomC if at all possible. Juggle guy is off work, so he is coming again. The boy is getting BIG!

[John Larson]

Saturday night and am happy to be home. Was out running around this afternoon and the Silverado died. Actually, it wouldn't fire when I went to start it. So I called #1 and she came and picked me up. The fortunate part is that I was close to home whereas I had been 40 miles up the road a bit earlier. Later, I was able to reach my land lord and talk him into fetching the Silverado with his big rollback. We just got back. It's now parked in front of my shop. Quite probably the ignition module inside the distributor cap is bad. He has had the affliction with one of his Chevies.

Before that adventure I finished cleaning the Cincinnati grinder, temporarily wiring it, diagnosing a circuit breaker on the electric starter, detective-ing the nine adjustment axes, and finally test grinding a few mill bits. The grinding wheel spindle has three axes, the collet holder has three regular axes plus two pivoting axes and an axis for doing spirals. I have collets for 1/2", 3/4", and 1" straight shanks. I need a few more sizes, especially 1 1/4", given the dull bits that have been accumulating since '96.

I was on my way back to the shop to start on the newest hammer's tup. That hammer's gotta be finished in a couple of weeks. What with quad states and an SOB truck I may start feeling some stress.

[John Odom]

Tha flat leather belt on my lathe broke last week. It was 2 yr. old, and run dry with a lite coat pine resin based belt dressing on the contact side. It had only seen light service. The one before that lasted about 20 yrs of heavy use. It was oil soaked when I got it. It was treated with the same belt dressing a couple of times. One reference I saw says that they should be treated with neats foot oil. Macheinery's handbook says oil of any kind will shorten their life and recommends actually degreasing them with solvent.

What is the opinion of the assembled Experts?

[HWooldridge]

John,

Leather has to be kept supple so most any sort of oil would help - Neatsfoot would be fine. Mach Hbk probably recommended a clean belt because of the possible slippage against the pulley but I think the combo of dry belt and dressing may have been the death of your new belt. I do not use any sort of dressing but instead try to spend some time adjusting pulleys and idlers until I get everything to run properly.

[gerald]

Might try Lexol. It's not as "oily" as Neatsfoot.

[sandpile]

Lexol is the one the saddle makers in this part of the world swear by. They buy in 55 gallon barrels to save quite abit of money. Then I take advantage of their good nature and buy it from them at cost.
This works out real well for both of us---I get the Lexol at about half price and he gets to see and visit with me.--Lucky him--LOL Seriously, Lexol has taken the place of Neatsfoot oil.

chuck

[Glenn]

Forgemagic appears to be back on line !!


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[Tom C]

Yep, I just posted something there.

[Glenn]

To the Forgemagic folks,

Thank you.

We appreciate your accepting our offer to visit and post to the IForgeIron site while your beloved Forgemagic was off line. We have enjoyed your company, your input, and your visiting with us. We know it is not the same, but it was a way to keep the Forgemagic folks together.

Now that your site is back on line, you are welcome to have dual citizenship if you wish. You are welcome to make duplicate posts on both sites, and make duplicate posts to the galleries on both sites.

It is about sharing information, and about the Blacksmithing Community, not an individual web site.

Thanks for visiting with us.
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[brucegodlesky]

Thanks Glenn, I think I'll take ya up on that. bruce godlesky