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Any time you are welding, wear the gear and cover your skin; gloves, shirt, hood, helmet. UV exposure is permanent, cumulative and dangerous. As a doc friend of mine says, "your skin never forgets".
Same goes for the folks that get burned at the beach. Get a few good sunburns and you are at a substantialy increased risk for skin cancer. This may not seem like an issue when you are young, but later in life as your immune system changes, skin cancer can be a real killer.
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In Topic: Tig Welding in a shirt?
12 January 2012 - 10:55 AM
In Topic: Purchasing monkey tools......thoughts???
10 January 2012 - 04:51 PM
Francis,
In the Maine woods business back in the day, the blacksmiths would travel with the loggers and stay close enough to support their operations. Thats primarly why you find the 120 -150 Lb anvils in such prevelance in this part of the world. They were easy for a one man show to move about. They drained a quary on the coast near here a few years back and on the floor of the quary they discovered among the old rusted equipment a sand box style forge. I assume the smiths worked in the quaries as well during that period. They all had to go to where the work was.
In the Maine woods business back in the day, the blacksmiths would travel with the loggers and stay close enough to support their operations. Thats primarly why you find the 120 -150 Lb anvils in such prevelance in this part of the world. They were easy for a one man show to move about. They drained a quary on the coast near here a few years back and on the floor of the quary they discovered among the old rusted equipment a sand box style forge. I assume the smiths worked in the quaries as well during that period. They all had to go to where the work was.
In Topic: Purchasing monkey tools......thoughts???
10 January 2012 - 09:22 AM
Dave,
It never ends. Always making or looking for tooling.
I recall seeing a picture of Francis Whitakers traveling kit. It was small and well equipped for the tasks at hand. His shop however was loaded with all manner of tooling that likely reflected his life long efforts. That's what happens as you grow into the trade. Dont worry, your shop appears big enough for you to expand into.
Peter
It never ends. Always making or looking for tooling.
I recall seeing a picture of Francis Whitakers traveling kit. It was small and well equipped for the tasks at hand. His shop however was loaded with all manner of tooling that likely reflected his life long efforts. That's what happens as you grow into the trade. Dont worry, your shop appears big enough for you to expand into.
Peter
In Topic: Purchasing monkey tools......thoughts???
09 January 2012 - 10:47 AM
Hey Dave,
Do you have access to a lathe? You can make a full set of round tenion sets easily or square . If you undersize the hole you drill you can heat the stock and drift the hole to square or rectangle without much difficulty.
If you want square tooling, set up square stock in a 4 jaw chuck and do the same thing. Note that sometimes you vise the tool and hammer the stock. This set up favors square tools although you can make round holder for the vise and it will work just as well.
Drill the relief hole oversize and far enough off the face for a good long tenion. It can go all the way through of just to the centerline of the hole depth it does not matter.
I have a set of rounds I made out of mild steel. When the face gets deformed I just chuck it back up in the lathe and reface it; fast, easy and accurate.
Peter
Do you have access to a lathe? You can make a full set of round tenion sets easily or square . If you undersize the hole you drill you can heat the stock and drift the hole to square or rectangle without much difficulty.
If you want square tooling, set up square stock in a 4 jaw chuck and do the same thing. Note that sometimes you vise the tool and hammer the stock. This set up favors square tools although you can make round holder for the vise and it will work just as well.
Drill the relief hole oversize and far enough off the face for a good long tenion. It can go all the way through of just to the centerline of the hole depth it does not matter.
I have a set of rounds I made out of mild steel. When the face gets deformed I just chuck it back up in the lathe and reface it; fast, easy and accurate.
Peter
In Topic: A handy tool for smoothing tapers under the power hammer
07 January 2012 - 09:25 PM
Tim,
It tis sad, but we end up knowing the man by the work. It's and ingenious and well made die set. Thanks for posting the pics.
Peter
It tis sad, but we end up knowing the man by the work. It's and ingenious and well made die set. Thanks for posting the pics.
Peter
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