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Hello everyone. Not forge related but in the realm of our interests. Have any of you made gassifying drip oil fed rocket heaters with a heat exchanger? This will be the base and wick housing for the greenhouse heater. Super simple design. Attach legs, empty propane bottle for combustion chamber will sit on top with copper tubing running in the cross section for a heat exchanger and a chimney for exhaust. The drip feed will run down along the combustion chamber before entering and leading to the wick reservoir. The wick will be an “Argand lamp” style wick. Any critical notes, precautions or additions are welcomed. thank you

Ok so one of the barn cats had a litter of kittens. My wife decided that she wanted to bring one of them in. At least it was only one and not all 5. So we have been taking care of this kitten now for a couple weeks but have yet to come up with a name. So she has agreed to let me ask for suggestions. The cat is a male. My first suggestion was Harold but the wife dont like that. Nor does she like Catrick Stewart or Neil Catrick Harris. We had a cat named David Catslehoff though, so... Anyway any thoughts and suggestions welcome. Here he is, i dont know why the pic made his eyebrows stand out like that. They are barely noticable.

I was just browsing through another forum, a prepped site, and ran across this. Being ex military, (US Army) I love a good acronym. Someone posted this...Beware the IDIOT (incredibly dangerous internet of things). I found it about ten minutes ago but it took me that long to stop laughing.

Off an on for a few months I been Cruisen the interweb looking at various companies that offer reverse engineering services to reproduce parts gears, shafts, bearings ect.. that are no longer available, some even say they can make a new gear even if the original is worn or damaged, I’ve also looked at various foundries that offer one off castings an low run castings, an copy castings, I got curious cause there’s always someone lookin for a replacement part for a old blower, drill press, vise, forge, ect… I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried using one of these small companies to copy a part to rebuild something? Or even completely copied …

Has anybody tried to make “activated carbon” from coal? Since this really isn't about blacksmithing, I wasn't sure of the best place to post the question. Yet, I think a blacksmith might have more of a pragmatic answer than some technical geek. From what I understand, this of course requires a source of carbon, plus cooking things to high temps (approximately 1000 degrees F). I understand that the process involves a phase of high heat absent of oxygen. There are other parts of the process I don’t understand very well, but am trying to learn. I literally have a ton of coal fines and have recently become interested in filtering rain water to drink. Activ…

Today we ran over to cane hill a small historic community a little east of here, the festival has been shut down the last couple years since covid hit, they finally did one this year, looked to be a decent turnout although there wasn’t near as much as I’ve seen in the past, lots of different craftsman and demonstrators, an several clubs and organizations came today, potters, wood carvers, wool spinners, tatters, quilters, basket weavers, bee keepers, soap makers, an probably some I can’t remember, steve low from the BOA came an setup his portable kit and ran a smithing booth for the day running a coal forge, the Smithsonian has multiple o…

Trying to avoid a last minute rush by getting stuff staged for quad-state: Got my "business cards" re-ordered, should be here tomorrow. Trying to get my insulin pump supplies changed over to Medicare---should have started that in January! Located all the fittings for our conduit tarp structure. Discussing nonperishable foods with my CFO Found all the tent stakes for my scale model Sibley tent, I hope to set it up and check condition next week. Found my propane cooker and grill for it---need to make sure I have a full BBQ tank still! Getting my tailgating items ready to go---if we have room in the truck. Still need to choose an Aloha…

Just got back from tired iron of the ozarks, BOA held a meeting in conjunction there today, we had a pretty decent turnout for the meeting, it was my first time goin to that shop, it was pretty cool and well stocked, we had three forges running today I did a little bit of demoing for some festival goers on a split cross, I also won a 30” buzzsaw blade at the silent auction, Randy an Debi made it out too! arkie, I know you wasn’t able to make it so I took some pictures for ya!

Does this MONSTER even exist ? I have come across this and a few other goodies in a recent storage unit acquisition. I am having absolutely no luck hunting down any information of when this behemoth of a stake plate was made or perhaps what its worth today? Very excited to hear what all the OG's and or anyone else would have for information on this bad boy. =P

This is where I shall document the creation of Frankenbucket.

The other day, I saw an ad for a "vintage grease gun". That is all.

Looking at too many videos; I got the down to 10% notice; so I'll not be on as much or at all this week.

A month or two ago I bought a 500 gallon propane tank from a guy up the road, No pictures yet…I still need to go pick it up Lol anyways I bought it with the intentions of turning it into a wood stove for the shop, Ive done an image search but I’ve only found a few here an there, I guess most people turn them into smokers instead, (which ain’t a bad idea!) lol I’m lookin for different ideas either vertical or horizontal, I was wondering if any of y’all have ever built a shop stove outta a 500 gallon propane tank? i figured if I don’t use the giant bowl ends for the stove part, they could be giant flower pots, fire pits, quench tub, cat food …

Fall classes at Adirondack folk school. Sept. Making a hacksaw Complete basic blacksmithing Oct. Tong making class

So my wife decided she didn’t like the linoleum In the bathroom an laundry room, an wanted to get some of that new wood laminate flooring that snaps together and redo that part of the house, I said sure sounds great! Whatever you want! well she calls up her dad to give her a hand since I’m in the middle of busy season in the shop, an he says sure that he’d come down an it should only be about a two hour job! I moved the washer, dryer, cabinets ect.. an cleared everything outta their way, an they got started, it all went down hill from there… first hiccup was when they pulled up the linoleum they found the toilet had been leaking, so I…

Today is the USCG's 232nd. Birthday. Thanks for all who go out and God's grace on those who didn't come back. Frosty The Lucky.

Hi guys... I want to know about heart rate monitor wristband and how its works!

Just listed some toys on fb marketplace and craigslist. I never list my phone # without putting it in half text half numbers. Anyway, I think it was off market place that I got a text. It mentioned the item and price. I texted back that it was still available. It went on in bad English and I started to realize it was a scam. They wanted to send me some code and verify the numbers. Don't do that! I toyed with them asking what I was selling and they never answered but wanted to send and me verify a code. I knew it was a scam and deleted their code message. Told them as much and then the true colors started coming out. Be careful out there. There …

I have just received a radio Communication from our very own Thomas Powers! He is currently under siege at his smithy in Socorro New Mexico! the aliens from Roswell have begun their final assault upon his smithy! he is defending his smithy fortress valiantly and is currently holding the line! he is having to save his backup reserve data for emergency communication only! he has notified me that reinforcements will be arriving on the 19th of July and will be resupplying his data at that time, after which time he will be resuming regular communications with with everyone here! we here at Peavine Oklahoma are planning to send supplies a…

hi sorry if I disturb, in my shelter laboratory I have my workbench welding station, I would like to create a study office corner, a corner where to put a sturdy table a desk to have fun reading the newspaper, consulting books designing sketching, supporting the computer, or a workstation versatile multi-purpose to my personal needs. therefore I thought of creating a personalized desk table, the measures would be: 70 cm wide, 80 cm high h, 120 cm long, you will tell me buy it, I would like to create a banquet, light versatile robust useful for any eventuality, perhaps to disassemble delicate objects, what can you suggest to me, I state that an emporium was selling 80 € th…

I have some old boats I need to chunk up and get rid of. It will cost me about 1000 dollars to take them to the dump. If I cut them up I will just put them into our dumpster a bit at a time. I was getting nowhere today with a Sawzall, when a friend came by. He told how a chainsaw with a carbide chain would get the job done faster. I know they have carbide chains but will they really cut anything that comes into their path, without killing me in the process? He said they used them when he worked for the fire department. Is this one of those too good to be true things? I figured someone here would be able to refute or support his claim. I would love to get …

We adopted our downstairs cat Damascus a little better than 15 years ago. She was scheduled for the vacuum chamber the day Deb and a friend of hers Julie stopped by the shelter, they took a girl's days out a couple times a month mid week and decided to put their name on a black and gray tabby kitten. Deb and I have veto rights where pets are concerned so they gave me a call so I'd come straight home from work. We headed to the shelter for my approval and while there we took a medium hair orange tabby too. Damascus was my birthday present so I got to name them both. I named Damascus because she looks like Damascus steel sort of and I named the orange boy "Mokume Gato" for…

pre warning images at the bottom are not for the weak of stomach, turn back now!! So my wife took our Aussie to the groomer yesterday because he was pretty raggy and needed a bath an a haircut, in all the years since we’ve had em there has never been a single issue between our dogs But when he arrived home yesterday afternoon one of the other dogs didn’t recognize him an attacked him right outta the gate for some stupid reason, I got em broke apart but they tore each other to pieces before I could get them drug apart We kept the Aussie in the house all night to let them both cool down and give ‘em time this morning it was time to let him out…

Has anybody ran across one of these things before? I saw one at the hospital yesterday. It kind of creeped me out. I wouldn't want one delivering my food at a cafe. Or air dropping a pizza at my front door for that matter.