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  2. The evil devil weed was decriminalized during the pipeline here, mid 72-73 IIRC and when the feds tried pressuring the state gvt. about it the state filed suit to make the feds pay the bill for enforcement, arrest, trial, jail, etc. and they decided not to know about it. Even then you'd have to be caught selling or in possession of more than an ounce to get busted. A pound or more might get you jail time. Now there's a pot shop on almost every corner, even service stations out on the highways have quantities. Do NOT give up BMTU! Stick with the basics and one day soon things will start making sense between your imagination, eyes, hands and the steel. From then on you'll be picking up new tricks. Learn the tricks to learn the trade as they say. You'll get there and we'll be honored to help. Frosty The Lucky.
  3. You need to take more breaks Steve, you're making more double posts as the day goes on. I don't know about them making sense, I don't think they ever have, have they? If you do get them organized maybe even (be still my heart) searchable we'll have to take up a collection and throw you a cyber party! Frosty The Lucky.
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  5. Good to see you posting Angiolino, you always give me something good to think about. Have you looked at many images of "tower cranes"? The tower vertical section is usually square, for full length members with cross bracing in a triangular pattern similar to the horizontal piece in photo you show. The Boom, "horizontal" component can be different structures depending on the uses. Triangular in structure is pretty typical. The basics would be pretty easy to make, a wide stand would be a must unless you tie it back to a wall. Put a cap on the tower with a lazy susan turn table and mount the boom to it. If you extend the boom behind the tower and weight it to counter balance the boom and light you have the next important component. All tower cranes have a large counter weight that turns with the boom and a control cab either on the boom side next to the tower that turns with or travels with the winch drum back and forth on the boom. I see lots of possibilities depending on how realistic I wanted it and how much I wanted to spend. The tower and boom are pretty straight forward, run the electrical cord on the inside of one of the tower members. Inside would make it way too complicated. A simple box on the back end of the boom for a counter weigh, holding a counter weight of course could also have indirect light sources, say reflecting ff the wall behind and ceiling above. I'd model one with a mobile control cab containing THE spot light or with the light hanging from it on a gimbal so it could be aimed. Maybe put more indirect lights on top of the carriage and cab. This arrangement would allow the cord to be held on a spring loaded spool so you could move it back and forth on the boom without having cord hanging or feeding the cord through a pully in the tower with a weight on it to keep it neat. If I didn't want that much realism I'd mount the boom to the tower like above with a counter weight to keep it stable and mount a suitable light fixture on the end of the boom. Simple and industrial would let me make it very light weight and still serve. Provided I only wanted to light things under the end of the boom with the fixture. Thoughts? Frosty The Lucky.
  6. Went out for a smoke, got caught. Searched and they found my small bag of shrubbery along with a wad of $1 bills and some change. Possession with intent to distribute. That 366 hook thing is pretty cool. i finally got a chance to take a gander. BMTU, a hook is just a shape. Scrolls are just basically hooks. It is up to you the artist to figure how and where you want to use the shapes you have at your disposal. When i was really into drawing i used to say that no matter what it is that you are trying to draw it is just a whole bunch of straight lines. It is the artist that determines size and placement of those lines. Even if you are drawing a circle it is still just a whole bunch of very small straight lines set at different angles. Aint giving up on you either cuase we, or at least me, do not want to see you give up on yourself.
  7. Good music happens where it grows. I live stream quite a bit of the music I listen to anymore myself but marketing has gotten to having to put up with a long commercial or several every stupid song. I don't listen on my Iphone and listen to audio books on my Kindle. Worse I'm too cheap to pay to subscribe to minimum commercials. It makes me miss the days when most of my friends were musicians and every evening was a jam session. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky.
  8. I took 000 and 100 offline until I can get the photos sorted out, they dont make a lot of sense as they are now
  9. I've had luck with some of the links by copy / pasting them into my browser or search engine. Frosty The Lucky.
  10. I'm going to not talk about my experience in S. Cal. public school anymore, other than metal shop it isn't metal related so . . . What shocked me a couple years pre-covid ago were the number of young men who wanted to learn smithing but couldn't calculate the area of a square and one couldn't do arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. High school grads all! And I thought school was only okay when I went. Back to iron and having our way with it. I've saved the 366 hooks link, it had my head spinning looking through it. Thanks again Randy. I've been busier on IFI than usual, Steve's been transferring the blue prints to a new section and I've been skimming along. Talk about spin your head! Frosty The Lucky.
  11. no clue, its a Glenn number system. I honestly think its based on when it was presented as much as anything everyone should be able to read and post to the forum sub section,. the Pages will be going away after I finish up, I have been deleting from there as I transport them into the forum itself
  12. Just a consideration to make it easier to navigate, what does the series number indicate? Could each be called for example "BP400, Tooling"? Also it seems some of the series I am able to look at and some I do not have permission for. Thanks for all the work so far in bringing these back again!
  13. 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.
  14. added 700 last night, and 800 and 900 this morniong, plus half of the 200 and none of the 500 series have photos If everyone can do us all a favor, I noticed while doing the 900 series that there were many duplicates there from other series. So if while browsing these you notice a copy, let me know the BP numbers of say 923 and 400 are the same so I can removed the copys.
  15. Wow! Logged in early this morning and immediately hit the list of blueprints in the Activity section. Are you done loading them? Thanks Steve!
  16. Billy, how on earth could one resist after reading such a comment? Yes, please do tell! You just hooked another one... --Larry
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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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  21. 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.
  22. 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?
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
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