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  2. good morning all, 1st sorry i missed your post in my replies swedefiddle, i will keep the twist in mind for the next time i make drive hooks, thanks for the idea. been looking thru the 366 hooks pictures, who would have thought hooks could be so complex, simple, beautiful and different, in my minds eye i saw nothing but j hooks or s hooks when i thought about hooks. i guess this is one of the reasons i was getting frustrated with my making. this has me rethinking on what i want to make. i realize that many of those hooks are more than what they seem and i do not have any misconceptions that i will be able to duplicate them all anytime soon. but i am excited to get out there and start making hooks. i know you all have been saying there is more to hooks than just hooks but i guess i have not been able to comprehend what you have been saying. thanks for keeping with me and not getting to frustrated and giving up on me.
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  4. added 700 last night, and I still have 800 and 900 to go, plus half of the 200 and none of the 500 series have photos
  5. Wow! Logged in early this morning and immediately hit the list of blueprints in the Activity section. Are you done loading them? Thanks Steve!
  6. Billy, how on earth could one resist after reading such a comment? Yes, please do tell! You just hooked another one... --Larry
  7. One of the guys from Green Day said it best once, "The radio is stuck on suck". I do have to say though that in this digital age i have turned off the radio and turned on more streaming music. I have been turned on to a lot of bands that i provably would have never heard of otherwise. I have said this before but where i lived the first years of my life was in the backwoods of KY, a county of 3,500 people. But we gave you Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gale, and Chris Stapleton. I suggest turning this one up.
  8. The funding here is done by daily attendance. There are 2 weeks out of the school year that head counts are taken and what ever the average number is determines how much the school gets. But yeah do not get me started on how our schools are run. Anyway that is flying pretty close to a taboo subject, politics, so that is all i will say about that. I could have chosen a much easier drawing like an office building with nice shrubbery ( with a few knights who say "ni" near by) but no, i chose the hardest of the bunch. I just ordered some drafting tools yesterday. Got a new architects ruler and a small French curve set, but i was amazed at how cheap things have gotten. Back in high school i mowed lawns and raked leaves to to raise $35 for the pencil i bought. That was the 80's, so what would that be now like $100? Today i can buy 10 pencils for that. I averaged about a B but like i said almost all art classes and if you fail art there is something really wrong with you. I did have a few credits in English, math, and science. I also took 2 semesters of Latin. Languages was also a required subject. French, Spanish, or Latin was our choices. Our English classes were broke down into sub classes. I took poetry and plays, mythology, novels and short stories. Best class i ever took was called practical math, it taught us how to do things like balance the check book, figure taxes, and stuff you use math for everyday. I forgot history, my world history teacher was a women who was about 90 years old, or seemed at the time, strict old lady too. She had been to more countries and traveled all the time so she not only taught the history but also gave us first hand experience of her time visiting places she was teaching about. I have went on enough about that but one more thing. My science teacher was also female. She was a senior my freshman year at my high school. My last year i was in school, the 5th year, she had gotten her degree and got hired at her old school. Well, we knew each other from being in school together so that was kind of awkward situation at first. If anyone would like i could tell the story of how my freshman year, to set my reputation in high in stone, i was arrested and escorted by the police out of the school in handcuffs.
  9. advice on construction of a DIY floor lamp in the shape of a stylized crane Hi, I had the unhealthy idea of building a DIY floor lamp in the style of a stylized construction crane to which to apply a spotlight or a lamp to use when necessary, but I don't know what measures to adopt and how to size it so that it is also functional, the arm it should be articulated to direct and direct the light beam where it needs to be illuminated, I had thought for the base of an old brake disc or a flywheel or a recovery gear of adequate dimensions for the upright in a style like a lattice structure for the arm crosspiece I don't know how to articulate and size it so that it is pleasant and functional. What do you recommend? Thank you and best wishes for Easter. Global Truss
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  11. Novice here, but I would agree with Thomas. I pour my copper bars as soon as I can stir the pot with a graphite rod and not feel any solid pieces. The longer it is molten the more problems you will have. He mentioned an iron mold. How is he keeping the the metal from sticking? I coat my mold in soot from my furnace after I cut off the oxygen making it fuel rich. Similar to oxy/acetylene torches. The soot allows a route for the gases to escape around your bar vs trying to rise up the center. I also use an plate iron mold that isn't very tall to facilitate the escaping gases.
  12. YES always Sadly we stopped hosting the Tuesday night BP presentation because Glenn and I could not do it anymore, and no one else would commit to being in the chat room every Tuesday to present them, but I will still add to this list when they get sent it, I will format them if you cant as well. I also added some of the 200, 400 and 600 series today, still so many are missing drawings or photos Perhaps someone would be willing to go over the old ones like that and re do them?
  13. Dear Steve, since these were unavailable for so long they kind of dropped off my radar. Now, that you are resurrecting them so fast it is like drinking from a fire hose. It will take some time to process them. There have been a few, e.g. the mystical things to do to ensure a successful forge weld, that I now recall reading years ago. Again, thank you for all the effort. These are a good resource. Also, are you accepting any new ones? GNM
  14. Welcome from the Ozark Mountains. I did a simple search and came up with a lot of hits for getting the manual. I can't control the wind, all I can do is adjust my sail’s. Semper Paratus https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=+manual+for+a+Besco+Truecut+shear+Model+585%3F+&ia=web
  15. Dad insisted I take Drafting so I did it helped that I enjoyed it. I don't even remember what I drew as my final, other than it was silly complicated. HAH, I remembered trying to describe parts of it! I drew an Allison V 12 aircraft engine. I coasted through high school with a C average, no fails but . . . I was part of California's first year of "no fail" policy. Their funding was and is based on students completing semesters, so you automatically graduate anything you sign up for and they get the $. I gotta stop I have too many gripes about . . . it. I took a few trade school courses and got a job. I've almost never run a certified bead let alone welded on a reactor cooling system! I let my certs lapse decades ago. Did a lot of fabrication as part of a couple jobs and am set up in my shop but . . . Didn't take me too long to discover that if you're competent with the basics your employer will teach you THE job. I ended up operating equipment for the state, great retirement and bennies so I did a full pull, 30 years and out. Generally demanding work with plenty of variety and excellent security. Probably too secure. Frosty The Lucky.
  16. I took 3 semesters of drafting. The plane was my choice as my final project for the class. When i was in high school i kind of fell through the cracks. I took not only drafting but 3 semesters of ceramics, drawing, industrial arts (photography, printing, etc.), wood shop, metals shop, foods (cooking) etc. When i dropped out of high school my final year i needed 18 credits to graduate, i had 19 or 19.5 but becuase i did not have enough credits in English, math, and science i would have spent 2 more years in high school to get them. I was 18, going into my second junior year, so i joined the Army.
  17. Yes it is from a museum. The barrel is also from a museum, it is vine making exhibit. The large hole is for cleaning the barrel.
  18. Thank you again Steve I spent a couple hours looking through many of them and seeing old names kind of choked me up. Once you figured it out you were really moving them, I was just looking and skimming and you left me in the ink dust. Frosty The Lucky.
  19. That's the stuff Trey. When you make your liner the walls and roof don't need to be more than 3/8" thick though a number of guys like 1/4", it's really tough stuff. Do NOT forget to rigidize the ceramic blanket! Encapsulating the fibers is more important to control the breathing hazard than making it stiffer. Though stiffer makes things easier. Yeah, I'm THAT Frosty. <sigh> It's my pleasure. Frosty The Lucky.
  20. Truely appreciate the hard work and effort. Just at a poke and a peek I have seen more than I have before. The effort is a great help to many.
  21. Very interesting. It would appear to me that on the barrel the iron secured a large hole, maybe for filling, and the smaller hole below may have been for a tap (faucet). I have no idea why such a substantial bracket would have been needed. The church piece would have take a LOT of repetitious work to fabricate but the end result is very impressive. I assume that this is inside a museum. GNM
  22. Thanks Iron, I bookmarked the page for future use. By the way, went out to forge today and just could not get into anything. I try not to force it. Maybe the 366 hooks will inspire me
  23. Frosty, Is this the product you are suggesting? I want to double check before placing the order. Thanks for your time on this. HWI Kast-O-Lite® 30 LI G [Commercial link removed.] Also, I found a burner design a while back that I used in a small forge for knife making that tapped into a black iron pipe T using a MIG welding tip as the gas nozzle. Thinking back I recall that it was called the Frosty T. 2+2 being 4 and all, I’m thinking that must be your design. Very cool man, very cool. I made a larger burner with that design for my furnace I’m itching to fire up once I get the refractory squared away. Thanks, Trey in Spokane
  24. Speaking of hooks, When I was practicing making all sorts of hooks this caught my attention. 366 Hooks | Flickr I can't control the wind, all I can do is adjust my sail’s. Semper Paratus
  25. slowly getting them moved over, so far I have 00, 100, 300 series moved into the forum and they can be commented on now as well. I dont have photos for 200 or 500 series yet still searching for them, we have them somewhere I think
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  27. Great job Steve. I see a ton of bps getting put in place.
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