Glenn

I found this article concerning Pacemakers and Welding on the AWS (American Welding Society) web site.

Those with pacemakers or heart conditions may want to read the article.

It seems to a successful surgery. Rough, rough, rough trip. I hope it was worth it. I am still barely able to hold my head up. There is a marked improvement today on the pain.

I have the grip and extentsion in both hands and arms. There is a little numbness in the outside two fingers on both hands. It may/may not go away. It is a lots better than it was.

Thanks for all the help. It was a appreciated.
Chuck

Next Meeting Info: February 17th 2007 10am-3pm

Location: Otter Creek Forge. 2732 Otter Hill Rd. Bedford VA 24523

Directions: LT has provided us with many different options for getting to his place. There is always Mapquest, but we all know sometimes they can't get you to where you want to go easily!

From Bedford: from route 460 take 714 (Falling Creek Road) out past Bedford County Nursing Home and go 5.5 miles across a cement bridge. At top of hill, turn right on 715 (Otter Hill RD.) Go 1.8 miles. House on left. 2732 on mailbox.

From Lynchburg: Take first exit off 460 (just pass McDonalds)
Turn left on 714 (falling creek rd.) and follow directions from Bedford.

From Roanoke: Take 3rd exit off 460 by-pass. Turn right on 714 (Falling Creek Rd.) and follow directions from Bedford.

From Altavista by-pass route 43 exit: Take route 43 north 1.8 miles
Turn right on to 628 and go 8.3 to intersection with route 43 at Mentow Baptist Church. Turn right on 43 north and go 1.5 miles to intersection with route 24. Turn left on 43 north 3.9 miles to route715 (Otter Hill Rd.) just pass Pecks Baptist Church. Turn right and go 1.6 miles to 2732 on mailbox. House on right.

From Yellow Branch (intersection 29 & 24) south of Lynchburg:
take 24 through Evington and over Big Otter Bridge. Stay on 24. At 16.5 miles 24 & 43 merge for 2.7 miles and separate. Stay on 43 north for 1.2 miles until just pass Pecks Baptist Church. Turn right on route 715 (Otter Hill Rd.) and go 1.6 miles. 2732 on mailbox. House on right.

Demonstrator: John Riddle. John is a veteran smith who focuses on hand forged and artistic items. He has a great eye for the sellability and potential in everyday items. John creates "yard art" out of many objects we take for granted and/or simply throw away! John will be demonstrating a snake made from an old rasp file, and hopefully a few other items that sell well for him. We also may get some of his "trade secrets" too. This will be a great meeting for those of us who are trying to make some money at this.

Reminders: BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch). This helps keep the cost down for the host, and ensures you like what is for lunch! IRON IN THE HAT!!! Make sure you bring something for IITH, and money for tickets. The Guild will provide coffee, pastries, and drinks at EVERY event with a donation jar, please donate if you partake! . The IITH and Donation Jar will help raise the money needed for demonstrators, future scholarships, and hopefully getting us closer to mailing out newsletters.

Feb. 17th: John Riddle Demonstrator at LT Skinnell's Otter Creek Forge. Bedford VA.

March 17th: Bob Rowe & Carl Hirner(from historic Williamsburg) at Yesteryear Forge. Amelia VA.

April 21st: Jack Chaffee at Brown's Forge. Lexington VA.

May 19th: TBA

June 16th: TBA

July 28th: TBA

Aug. 11th: Jamestown Celebration. Buckingham VA.

Sept. 15th: Doug Merkel at Yesteryear Forge. Amelia VA.

Oct. 20th: 2nd Annual Yesteyear Forge Hammer In. Amelia VA. Demonstrator: RANDY McDANIEL AUTHOR OF "A Blacksmithing Primer, A Course in Basic and Intermediate Blacksmithing"

Welcome to the Blacksmith Guild of Virginia.

Thank Doc for this one. Get a sheet of drywall to work on or work over. Cheap and replaceable.

Not a thing wrong with safety. It allows you to grow old enough to learn other things.

Do a search the site from the opening page for blueprint BP0128. It will show you how to convert a clothes dryer fan to a forge fan.

Blueprint BP0052 has some material on welding rod and settings.

From Lincoln Electric

E6010
DC only and designed for putting the root bead on the inside of a piece of pipe, this is the most penetrating arc of all. It is tops to dig through rust, oil, paint or dirt. It is an all-position electrode that beginning welders usually find extremely difficult, but is loved by pipeline welders world-wide. Lincoln 5P+ sets the standard in this category.

E6011
This electrode is used for all-position AC welding or for welding on rusty, dirty, less-than-new metal. It has a deep, penetrating arc and is often the first choice for repair or maintenance work when DC is unavailable. The most common Lincoln product is Fleetweld® 180 for hobby and novice users. Industrial users typically prefer Fleetweld 35.

E6013
This all-position, AC electrode is used for welding clean, new sheet metal. Its soft arc has minimal spatter, moderate penetration and an easy-to-clean slag. Lincoln Fleetweld® 37 is most common of this type.

E7018
A low-hydrogen, usually DC, all-position electrode used when quality is an issue or for hard-to-weld metals. It has the capability of producing more uniform weld metal, which has better impact properties at temperatures below zero. The Lincoln products are typically Jetweld® LH-78 or our new Excalibur® 7018.

Storing Low Hydrogen Stick Electrodes
Low hydrogen stick electrodes must be dry to perform properly. Unopened Lincoln hermetically sealed containers provide excellent protection in good storage conditions. Opened cans should be stored in a cabinet at 250 to 300°F (120 to 150°C).


Electrodes exposed to air for less than one week; no direct contact with water. Final Re-drying Temperature 650°F to 750°F (340 to 400°C)

Additional information

AWS Fumes and Gases Fact Sheet

American Welding Society Safety and Health



MSDS This is a link to the MSDS page on welding rods.

From Lincoln Electric Literature
This is a 24 page PDF document.


The fume plume contains solid particles from the consumables,base metal, and base metal coating. For common mild steel arc welding, depending on the amount and length of exposure to these fumes, most immediate or short term effects are temporary, and include symptoms of burning eyes and skin, dizziness, nausea, and fever. For example, zinc fumes can cause metal fume fever, a temporary illness that is similar to the flu. Long-term exposure to welding fumes can lead to siderosis (iron deposits in the lungs) and may affect pulmonary function. Bronchitis and some lung fibrosis have been reported.

There is one easy way to reduce the risk of exposure to hazardous fumes and gases: keep your head out of the fume plume! As obvious as this sounds, the failure to follow this advice is a common cause of fume and gas overexposure because the concentration of fume and gases is greatest in the plume. Keep fumes and gases from your breathing zone and general area using natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation,fixed or moveable exhaust hoods or local exhaust at the arc. Finally, it may be necessary to wear an approved respirator if adequate ventilation cannot be provided.

Ventilation
There are many methods which can be selected by the user to provide adequate ventilation for the specific application. The following section provides general information which may be
helpful in evaluating what type of ventilation equipment may be suitable for your application. When ventilation equipment is installed, you should confirm worker exposure is controlled within applicable OSHA PEL and/or ACGIH TLV. According to OSHA regulations, when welding and cutting (mild steels), natural ventilation is usually considered sufficient to meet requirements, provided that:

1. The room or welding area contains at least 10,000 cubic feet (about 22' x 22' x 22') for each welder.

2. The ceiling height is not less than 16 feet.

3. Cross ventilation is not blocked by partitions, equipment, or other structural barriers.

4. Welding is not done in a confined space.

Spaces that do not meet these requirements should be equipped with mechanical ventilating equipment that exhausts at least 2000 cfm of air for each welder, except where local exhaust hoods or booths, or air-line respirators are used.

It is called a snap case. It's a bottle-making tool from the mid-1800s, and was used to hold onto the bottom of a wine bottle (note the cone in the center to accommodate the kick-up) while the neck was being finished with a lipping tool. It has wood-covered handles because they were used hot.

The process is as follows:

step 1: Blow glass into mold. Probably a three-part mold, judging by the deep kick-up.

step 2: Open the mold, grab bottle with regular glass tongs, and fit snap case over the bottom. Squeeze to clamp.

step 3: Reheat the neck, and use lipping tool to create the finished bottle.

step 4: Release snap case, put bottle in annealing oven to cool slowly.

There are several illustrations of these things floating around if you look into the history of bottle making.

Here is a photo of a Saltfork Swage Block being used to assist the installation of a new garbage disposer in our sink.

According to the disposer instructions: "You may wish to place a weighted object in the sink to hold the sink flange in place." Note the use of a towel to prevent scratching of the sink and thus avoiding further instructions.

The swage block worked fine for this application. It held the sink flange in place while I installed the gasket, backup ring, snap ring, etc. from below the sink.

Jim C.

Made from of baling wire, it will give you a length measurement for for the stock need to make a spring fuller. I use a piece of wire in the apron or press brake to get the bends right first.

Gooseneck auxiliary anvil. Modified anvil saddle for when you need to make a fork, or need a short bend more than 90*. Works for snub end scrolls, and has lots of uses.

Thank you Irnsrgn for another good one.

It is used to keep iron tire bolts from spinning when taking off the nuts on wooden wagon wheels. Hook the loop on the inside of the wheel and put the sharp thing on top of the bolt and exercise pressure on the end of the handle. Irnsrgn

it was made by a blacksmith for use in the shop

its about 2 1/2 ft long, made of 1/2 by 1 1/2 flat

This tool is a copy of someones Grandfathers, the original handle was forged to a long taper, the original has been lost or tossed. Tool by Irnsrgn.

The long taper on the original part of it's function Irns? Answer: Made it lighter and easier to handle I guess. Still needs a little modification on the working end and am going to taper the handle with power hammer some day, it really needs to be longer.

It's a tire wrench, the wood block represents the fello of a wooden wagon wheel, the metal strip represents the iron tire around the wheel, after heating to expand the tire sometimes it deforms and won't go over the fello so you use the tire wrench to force the iron tire out and over the wooden fello and then drive down with a hammer. By moving the wrench and pulling and hiting you can get the tire over the fello and then drive into place and cool for the shrink fit needed to hold the tire on the fello. Irnsrgn

It might be a few days before I can back on line. I go into the hospital a little before lunch. Don't have a clue how long they will keep me. Chuck

Sandpile is having an operation Monday Jan 30 on his neck. Prayers would be appreciated.

Hotforge has had skin graphs on his foot and they have taken hold. He thanks you for your concern and continued prayers.

Jim Joyce's aunt passed recently. Please keep Jim and his family in your prayers.

You ever try to put a 500 w light near and pointed at the subject? Makes a lot of difference in being able to see your work.

Do lathes turn clockwise or anti-clockwise and why? Is one better than the other?

Dave Wilson put together a list of anvil names. This may be a good place to use the information as Joe is "in the marker" for another anvil

Acme
Ajax
American-Ross
American Skein and Foundry
Armitage Eagle
Arm and Hammer
Alsop
Badger
Baker
Bay State
Black Jack
Black Prince
Bradley
Brooks and Cooper
Buffalo Forge
Champion
Charles Hadfield
Cliff Carrol
Columbus Anvil and Forging
Columbian Harden Co
Columbus Forge and Iron
Cranberry
CW
Delta
Denver
Dural
DuraSteel
Eagle
Fireside
Fisher-Norris
Fulton
Hay Budden
Henery Wright
Herculies
Indian Chief
Insonora
J.E. Pilcher
Kim Bach farriers anvil
Keen Kutter
KL
Kohlswa
Lakeside
Louisville Forged Anvil
Mankel
Mouse Hole
Oak Leaf
Old Forge
Onsteel
Paragon
Pedinghaus
Peter Wright
Record
R. Redding
Rock Island
Roberts Anvil
Sampson
Sligo
Snyder & Oaks
Soderfors
Southern Crescent
Standard
Star
Trenton
Trenton Indian Chief
Valley
Vernaium Steel
Village Forge
Vulcan Arm-Hammer
West
Wilkinson
William Foster
Yost "Y" in a circle

This is one that Strine did a while back. More armour than a forged hand but a cool piece of work just the same.

Lincoln Electric has an article on Arc Welding Safety that lists a bunch of stuff including when you should use a shade 12 welding goggle.