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smokey07

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  1. Hi,to all the vets. U.S. Navy 1960 thru 1964 on the Northhampton, command/communications crusier also ship was Com 2nd Fleet . spent a lot of time going in circles in the Atlantic ocean. Smokey
  2. to protect the screw after you clean and lube it, take a piece of thin flexable leather and wrap around the screw when you have the vise opened a bit. jaws opened about 3 to 4 inches or so. sew the edges together so the leather tube is very loose around the screw so it will flex when to close the jaws. mine on my vise is about twenty years old and still keeps the scale and crud off the screw. Smokey
  3. as commisaryman third class E-4, would be in charge of late night working party when out to sea. in our stores were cans pf stableized milk, crew would not drink the white milk only the chocolate if it was very cold.would hold late night flotation tests on the cases of white milk when far out to sea.
  4. George N.M. saw your post about carrying a Randall knife. thats a name that i havent heard in many many years. bought my Randall in 1962 when i was in the Navy, still have it and its butchered many a deer and a few elk. i wonder if there is any of the Randall clan still making those. i have never found any other knife that can stand up to a Randall. Smokey.
  5. Iron Dragon anvil is strikeing for Master smith Francis Whitiker.
  6. l live in central oregon where the soil is mostly rocks and clay. we have six recycled bath tubs for raised beds. drill a few holes in the bottom for drains , a small layer of rocks, then some weedstop cloth so the dirt doesnt move down. then soil and compost and plants. one has raspberries, one has strawberries. and veggies in the rest. tubs are all fiberglass so there is no rust problem. keeps the small rodents and critters out of them. and there is no real bending over to have to deal with. Smokey
  7. went to Skunk Hollow Forge school of blacksmithing in 1976 and the graduation from thr class , you got to shoot two 100 lb. anvils. one upside down as the base , both had had a depression in the base, so filled the base with black powder ( maybe a third of a pound or so ? ) a ring of clay around it and set the other base down on top with a long length of cannon fuse to set it off, and to get the xxxx out of the way. the school was down in an old creek bed with a high plateau to the south, so someone could go up on the top and estimate the height of the shot. mine went up approx. 90 to 95 feet. i was told. the school was outside of Denver, Colo. near the town of Morrison ,Colo. Smokey.
  8. U.S. Navy,60-64 Command Cruiser (uss Northampton) radioman then switched to commisaryman to get away from a real idiot of a division officer (boot ensign right out of the academy ) did my 4 years and bailed. 40 years as blacksmith till the recession shut my shop down, then retired and wanted to do something different. so now i drive a water tanker for the wildfires in Oregon. looks like its going to be a real bad season this year. already have worked three 14 day shifts and that usually starts in august. we started in june. lots of fun. Smokey
  9. mr.anderson, i have a 402 lb Kholswa anvil that i have used since 1980 . built a sreel box out of 3/16th sheet, poured in sand and then a piece of 1/2 inch chip board. makes it stable and does not ring too bad,and the anvil does not tilt or move. Smokey.
  10. George N.M. before i retired, i had a shop in s.w. colorado and did a lot of work for the trophy homes in Telluride and Aspen. if you built a home and wanted a wood burning fireplace, you had to apply for a permit and they were very limited and also very expensive. therefor i made a lot of doors for gas burning fireplaces which didnot need a permit. i dont remember the exact permit cost but in the early 2000,s they were up in the thousands of dollars. it seems like around 5 to 6 thousand. Smokey
  11. MT, Dave at Arrowhead Forge in Buffalo WY, and i went thru the school [ Skunk Hollow Forge] way back in the dark ages of 1976. He runs a great school and is a talented teacher. If you get the chance to attend his classes, you will learn a lot. tell him Smokey sent you. Smokey.
  12. you folks that want convex eyes for the kerbals. have you tried using small end caps for pipe? you would have to weld them on but they might work. Smokey.
  13. my wife has a 97 honda crv 2.2 moter 246000 miles as of today. very little in repair costs. hoping for 300000miles smokey
  14. back when hay bales were tied with wire, we had those to cut the wire. used them on many bales.
  15. Bruce and i went to classes at Skunk Hollow Forge in Morrison CO in the mid 70,s and then had a great friendship over the years. I will miss him very much. Smokey
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