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Wildernessmedic

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    Main ones are skydiving, rappelling, firebreathing, fire spinning, wilderness survival, firefighting/paramedecine, spearfishing and diving!

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  1. I've tried riveting. Getting better but not good enough to start anything. Had some trouble here are there. You can see a few tries at it here. http://s1357.photobucket.com/user/WildernessMedic/library/Armor%20Crafting?sort=3&page=1
  2. Yeah, I have no desire to use power tools. All by hand. I can crank as fast as I feel is needed. Any faster and i'd probably make some uneven coils.
  3. When you say we scale off steel faster than carbon migrates in....sorry you lost me. Are you saying attempts at carborizing normally makes us lose steel more than gain carbon? If so then that would put the ratio of carbon up still right? Ok so I was combining two different things. Cold working and hot working. While i'm cold working wire it stiffens up. So I heat and cool to get it back to soft. If I was working it hot I would not be work hardening it at all.
  4. Being the new dummy I am, even I was kind of irritated with this containing typos. So carborizing is above and beyond most blade making, but we have to worry about burning carbon atoms off. So we just make sure we don't let it sit in the forge forever right? Simple is that or is there something else needed to keep them from burning off?
  5. Ahh so many different types of steel Geoff... Torsion bars or tie rods are hardenable yes? The tool is basically a flat round sharp shovel. Bottom right of this page. http://www.tequilasource.com/glossary_02.htm HWooldridge, so there are J shaped ones. I thought I saw that somewhere and that's what I was originally making.
  6. Can't remember or find what threads they were but somewhere on here, a few people told me some info I was wrong about. I'm reading about it elsewhere and want to make sure I have the right info. One subject was the matter of case hardening. Example was from "A birth of a sword" where they say mechanical fullering of a blade removed a hardened layer from the blacksmith hammering on it. This is why mechanical fullering was garbage and not authentic. A few people on here said BS, but i'm reading and experience it a bit. I'm looking at this http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in/1138/1/Heat_Treatment_of_Low_Carbon_Steel.pdf When you work with mild steel/copper it hardens as you work it (work hardening?) So is this something that doesn't apply to hammering high carbon steel? Another subject was something an old school knife making neighbor told me. That using coal or other combustibles are better than gas forges because it adds carbon to the piece being worked. Someone told me this was an old wives tale and BS. But reading that pdf it mentions carbuerizing and adding carbon somehow? I believe someone also said low carbon steel can not be heat treated? If so why do I keep having to anneal some mild steel to be able to work it after work hardening? I see videos of people heat treating and quenching mild steel, is this pointless and achieving nothing?
  7. Wow didn't know that. Thought 1095 was for high quality knife production. Why the XXXX is flat stock so expensive then!! And. You are right. From the pictures I see they are like a sharp flat shovel. Which kind of sucks now... Because it sounds more like I'm just cutting a saw blade than really blacksmithing it. Hmm. Also now how am I going to attach it to the pole. With the curved blade I was just going make a couple spots to just lash it on.
  8. What is the cheapest most readily available steel I can use to make a cutting tool? Will mild steel work? I want to make a Coa de jimi, basically a j hook blade on the end of a pole, for harvesting agave. I want it to be functional, but doesn't need to be pretty or anything crazy like 1095 high carbon. Mild steel or what?
  9. Pretty pissed off. My coke and coal gets here I go to fire it up and all of a sudden the hair dryer is trash. Also kind of bummed, they sent me my bags but didn't label them, how can I tell which is which. I thought coke was white? I have two bags of black fragments, one is slightly shinier than the other.
  10. Yeah I have a dump cap on the bottom. I like your table.
  11. I get what you mean about it being nice in the middle of the table, I can always add that later, but how is the way I have it going to let fuel drop on the ground?
  12. Thanks! I'll see about building you sheet metal fence idea after a few times messing around on it. I don't know where to even get real lump charcoal. No HazMat I wish I could say I did but I got lucky and found something that fit it perfectly. Had to cut it and fit it, but it's not built from scratch.
  13. Got it done. Now i'm just waiting on my coal and coke to arrive in the mail.
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