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Frosty

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     Meadow Lakes Alaska
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    Metal work, people, puns and other bad jokes.

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  • Location
    Meadow Lakes Alaska
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    Real name's Jerry Frost. I've lived in Alaska for 37 years. Been a hobby smith since I was maybe 10.
  • Interests
    metal working of all kinds leaning towards blacksmithing.
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    Retired equipment operator

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  1. Taking a picture of a tape measure across the T doesn't tell me anything useful. The dimensions are on the side of the T. I wasn't clear before, the dimensions of a T burner include the ID and length of the mixing tube and actual dimensions of the T fitting plus the dimension of the mig contact tip gas jet. If you use a mig contact tip for the gas jet. If not I need to know what and how you made the gas jet. If I were to speculate using your tape measure pic I'd guesstimate the air intake port to be somewhere between 1 1/2" and 1 3/4" which means the mixing tube would need to be between 1" and 1 1/4" ID. Bigger is not necessarily better unless you don't maintain the ratios. The math is in the Illustrated T burner instructions in the burner section. Before you start experimenting (something I encourage by the way) you need to know how and why these things work. Most of the people posting T burner, how to videos online do NOT know what they're doing, the flame may look good but almost every one I've looked at has been a serious underperformer. Some even have choke plates "for Mother Moose's SAKE!" to get them to burn okay. Here's another thought. If you need a wider forge than your square I'd suggest you consider a D shaped forge. It has a nice wide flat floor and the walls and roof are an arch. This maximizes useable floor space and the arch encourages a strong swirl in the flame for more even heating. I've made a couple improvements to the T burner build that isn't in the illustrated plans posted here. I check in almost every day, if you have questions please feel free to give me a shout. Frosty The Lucky.
  2. Pick one and turn it into test coupons and determine what you need to do to make the tools you wish. Depending on who I talked to at the rental counter at the local Home Depot I buy worn jack hammer bits for $3 ea to, take the bucket, that was 6 bits and he was the manager. I haven't bought high-ish carbon high impact steel in a couple years. The few bottom tools I've made from this stock I've been pretty conservative in the heat treat and tempered to dark straw. No chips, bends, etc. so far. (Not to jinx myself!) Frosty The Lucky.
  3. Frosty

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    Gorgeous as always Jim but now you have me wondering what we'd be looking at if you were going at it hard and heavy. Recover quickly and well. Frosty The Lucky.
  4. Dum vivimus vivamus (While I live let me LIVE!) R. A. Heinlein, "Glory Road". In the book he described his navy dress sword as Lady Vivimus. "Glory Road" is one of if not my favorite Heinlein novel and I've read them all many times. Anyway, it's as good a motto as I know of. Frosty The Lucky.
  5. There are only a couple changes in the T burner since those plans were posted here. They're in the brass fitting between the mig tip gas jet and the copper supply line. The change simplified and made it stronger. If you have questions during the build give a shout. Frosty The Lucky.
  6. True Das but I'll take comfort knowing people will be posting after my time comes. Frosty The Lucky.
  7. I know what you mean by turning and expecting your buddy to be there when s/he always is only to realize with a catch that s/he's gone over. I can't talk about any of the many times I've held him/er while the drugs take them down or I'll start crying. . . again. It hurts but it's our last and maybe best show of love to let them go when it's time. I want the last thing they hear this side to be my voice telling them I love them and they're a good dog. Frosty The Lucky.
  8. Until the wife found out you planted spiders in the garbage can on purpose! Deb is, shall we say NOT a fan of spiders. Frosty The Lucky.
  9. Some pretty nice pics George, glad you brought them home. Frosty The Lucky.
  10. I agree a couple more inches of diameter will make a huge difference in draw. Frosty The Lucky.
  11. Good show Das! Demoing at school fairs might branch out into more lucrative demos. Maybe a permanent teaching position. It'd sure be nice to see industrial arts back in schools. Frosty The Lucky.
  12. There is a lot there you can't really use if you aren't in the business. Worse if you don't have geo info for your specific location it could cause you more troubles than guessing. What is the depth of bedrock? Don't know right? Try driving what we'd call a probe rod basically a smooth pointed piece of steel rod till it stops hard. Ground rod is perfect and heck you're going to wire it anyway aren't you? Borrow a fence post driver, mark the rod in 12" increments and count the blows per foot. You will not be able to use it directly for foundation design but it will provide some good information as to what depth it starts to harden up. Or maybe more valuable where undisturbed soils start if its ever been plowed, filled, etc. Frosty The Lucky.
  13. Look up "Fluorine and fluoride toxicity and precautions. It is an extremely reactive group of chemical compounds, so reactive you are not supposed to use fluoride tooth paste if your water is fluoridated. Frosty The Lucky.
  14. Oh I don't know, you COULD do a little jig while you crank. Happy St. Patty's day. How does the camera track? If its IR all the heat sources could be confusing the chip. I'm afraid I had to stop watching after a little while the weird camera behavior got too distracting for me. Frosty The Lucky.
  15. Your colleague sure had a BIG smile, good job John! Frosty The Lucky.
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