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caught glimpse of trailer... looks like it's blacksmith turned superhero...robert downey jr.

There are several things I could say about these pics, so here goes......... First of all, * THIS IS NOT A REAL TOOL! * Don't bother with making one unless you want to laugh uncontrollably! I had this little angle grinder which had died a while back. I had taken the housing apart and discovered that the brushes had somehow come loose, completely destroying the motor. A few days ago, inspiration struck me Why not just chuck my drill up to the grinder!? After all, all I needed was a motor, right? As you can see from the pics, what I wound up with was a swivel-head grinder that turns at....maybe.....200 rpm.........slow! It turns so slowly it won't make a spa…

Just curious about what you all think about someone changing their legal name. I'm for it (in fact, I hope to eventually do it), but I'm interested in how everyone else sees it.

I'm hoping some of the computer gurus can help me with this question. I started a website through Yahoo! in early 2004, which has a Merchant Store with secure credit card processing and all sorts of other features I don't need. I built the website with their propietary web program, called SiteBuilder. Although I've gotten a lot of work off the 'net, most of it is custom so it's completely unrelated to the Store features or processing CC's. I'm paying almost $1500 a year in website and CC fees with not much return on same from since the stuff I sell over the Web only amounts to about that much income - so I'm working real hard just to break even on the services. Ther…

Want to smoke some pork ribs this weekend and im looking for a nice mild spice sweet rub any one got a recepie to fit that need. havent smoked ribs yet want something the whole family will eat. ill eat the spicy stuff they want.

What is the difference between a grandmother and a granary?

I have a working prototype of a product that I want to market. There is already a product on the market similar to mine. The original has a patent. My question is... How much trouble can I get in if I just start producing and marketing my version? Any patent attorneys here?

http://www.rustyiron.com/engines/stable/bessemer.html If this ends up double posted, sorry. If you folks have any information on these engines I would appreciate it, Thanks.

There are rumours circulating that my dog is spoilt by my wife. To put the blacksmithing community straight on this my 110 pound pup this evening consumed: Smoked salmon and cream cheese, Duck Strawberries and cream Cognac (yes Cognac from my supply. He did NOT have a cigar. Any stories to the contrary are lies put around by my enemies. I wanted you all to know that.

Have you ever tried to feed your 'farm' dogs and cats, in the backyard.........at the same time? You know what happens,.....the dogs attempt to monopolize all the food. Here's a way around the problem. Put the cat food on a perch of some sort that the cats can gain access to .........and the dogs can't. This is based on an age-old fact; dogs can't climb! (At least, not as well as cats). The red building in the pics is an old smokehouse turned into a utility shed. There was a live tree growing on the right side of the door. It has since died, but still serves as the cat's climbing post.........that's why I haven't removed it. Anyway, it works like this; at…

I fancy spending a few months stateside riding around on a bike. What are the best areas to ride in and which areas are best avoided?

Folks, My wife and I will be on the road again for our bi-annual trip to her Grandma's in Berlin, MD. We leave Wednesday, May 7, after work and will get there Thursday May 8th. Sunday is spoken for as it is Mother's day, but is there anything going on Friday or Saturday (May 9/10) in the area? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Chuck

Forward: I kind of set this up a little like a Blueprint, but since it has nothing whatsoever to do with Metalworking, I figured I'd just post it here in the non-metalworking thread. Hey everyone, Since we all tend to be about recycling now and again (there's lots of scrap steel out there after all) I figured I'd recycle something different last week for Earth Day. So, in the same vein as "any heavy chunk of steel can be an anvil" I present "Any pile of pallets can be...Something" I took a walk during my morning break at work a couple weeks ago and noticed that some of the pallets in the pile behind the warehouse were pretty decent looking lumber. After a quick requ…

I recently came across some Romanian Army chemical kits that are used by soldiers to wash and neutralize toxic stuff from th enemy .. .in case of a chemical attack. The kit consists of 2 small vials, 3 small bottles filled with a sweet smelling pink liquid and several cotton balls. Can anyone please tell me maybe what those chemicals are and if they are toxic to humans or animals? and how to dispose of them safely.

Hi all, I just wanted to share some good news... I just got the word that I was accepted to graduate school at IUP (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) for the Masters Degree program in Safety Sciences. I start June 1st. This program is totally online except for a one week intensive program each summer for three summers. IUP is one of the top universities for safety in the US. With a little luck and a lot of work, I'll graduate mid-June 2010. I'm back on workers comp for a little while, but safety is one of the things I've proven I can do. (Besides, walking around with wires attached to my arm reminds others to be safe.) Just getting into college again afte…

My wife Cookie, got a hand operated yarn ball winder, she asked me to wind some skeins of yarn into balls while she is in the hospital. Picture me at my puter desk in the basement designated smoking/woodshop/yarn winding area, with the skein dropped into a small cooler with the winder fastened to the slide out keyboard rest and 2 cats an older one and a kitten helping. Older one kept jumping into the cooler and grabbing the skein as it unrolls, kitten is jealous and keeps biting older cats tail and grabbing it with it claws, then sets up on hind legs and slams lid shut on older cat, occassionally getting older cats head between bottom and lid. My shirt front was wet fro…

I just finished laying my 4th oak floor today. My uncles sawmill makes the boards from scrap lumber finger jointed together. Looks good. Now i have a 28 foot floor with what was done 4 years ago in the 2nd pic...Bob

Has anyone seen the movie Expelled? I saw it and was very impressed. Ben Stien didn't even blow anything up; and still kept my interest. [but I'm a WASP = REDNECK]

June Tilton, wife of AST, and daughter of irnsrgn was Honored at last nights Spurs Basketball Game as TEACHER OF THE GAME. She got free tickets and parking and a souvenier mug with Teacher of the Game printed on it.

Enter "find chuck norris" into Google and click "I'm feeling lucky"

hey yall i havent been in in a while my shops been out of commision for a while and im working on getting a computer, but any you gotta hear this my friend abe has a bad tooth right and hes in major pain but he needs tires for his truck so he comes up to my house instead of the dentist and convinces me to help him to pull his tooth out (i jokingly offered the use of tongs but he declined) and so anyway hes trying to loosen the tooth before we pull it and he says " man if only i could bang on it with something" and i say jokingly "what like an iceskate and a rock" and he says yeah dude just like that so i go and get him a pin punch and hammer and he sets against the pain…

I find a blacksmithing show on tv and found the site to buy them finaly! LOL . Its called forge& anvil it comes on RFD-Tv . I`am going to buy the book and tv series. I just wondered about any other Blacksmithing tv shows. here is the link http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/tv/videocatalog/forge.html http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/tv/forge/descriptions.html I think you can get on RFD Tv `s site and get there also. I`am not trying to sell them. I just found them and wanted y`all to know about them cause they look interresting Thanks,Chris

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Kinda thinking outloud and looking for some input... I currently run my business under the name Nocturnal Designz Inc. Heres a link to my very old never updated website(sure wish I knew how to do it myself) with not to much in the way of forge workhttp://nocturnaldesignz.com/index.asp My business is doing mostly custom fabrication work whatever people want, but I have been trying to swing it to mostly forge work, and its been hard thing to do seeing how people already know me as a fabrication shop and I never seem to have time to work on forged product, after a day of fabrication its hard to ignore the family and head out for more metalwork. I know forging Iron i…

Hey all, Not sure how I've managed to not mention this here yet... but on or around May 31, 2008, the Sandy Creek Forge will be getting a new apprentice. Image #1 Image #2 This image confirms that the new apprentice is, in fact, of the male persuasion, but wasn't real sure about posting the image here, as the ultrasound tech did a most wonderful and professional job of labeling it..... Image #3-a solid fist with a nice strong grip. Image #4- The ultrasound tech almost fainted when she saw this one.... I, however, wasn't a bit surprised -Aaron @ the SCF