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Place the rivet over the hardy hole of your anvil. Hit the rivet with a hammer until the tongs free up. If the tongs are too free then place the rivet on the face of your anvil and hammer until tight.

They all leak.

24" square and plenty big enough for my needs. Home made stainless firepot made from 10mm (3/8") 316L stainless.

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Is there a problem with their website?

I've been saving the unburnt remains of the coal from my multifuel stove. It's a form of coke but not as dense as the stuff you buy from a solid fuel supplier. It behaves more like charcoal than coke and leaves very little clinker. Does this stuff have a proper name?

Glad I'm not the only person left in the world who still uses a shaper.

It's a foot operated press based on a flypress frame. Not very powerful but perhaps useful for veining and other fine detail work. The Denbigh Treadle, foot operated fly press on eBay, also, Engineering Tools, Industrial Tools, Business, Office Industrial (end time 26-Mar-09 20:07:07 GMT)

That larger anvil may be a JB.

Have the links to the Aussie Blacksmith's website stopped working?

Sounds very much like zinc, be careful.

Hello neighbour.

You need a sand-blasting cabinet.

Excellent work. I love copper, I wish it was used more.

It's my old road bike circa 1982. It's a hand built frame (Reynolds 531 tubing) with good quality components. e.g. Shimano 600 series train, handbuilt wheels, Brooks seat...

Here's a pair of dies with a slight convex face, used for setting the weld when making pattern welded steel. Hopefully the convex shape will push the flux out of the billet as it gets pressed. This should reduce the amout of crap that gets trapped in the billet. Here I'm putting a 11" diameter convex radius on the end of a bar of H13 (2" square) Hopefully you can see the finished radius in this photo. here's the finished dies:

All tooling has a 1 inch spiggot, a standard size for larger flypresses. So far I've made the bottom bolster, a set of fullering dies, a v bender and a punch which is fitted to a 1" to 19mm adaptor. I made the adaptor because I've got about 20kg of 19mm H13. Here I'm turning the spiggot for the top V block, it is an interference fit. The spiggot was left in the freezer for a few hours to shrink a wee bit and the block was heated to enlarge the hole. They're not coming apart again, ever. Here's some 19mm bar that I bent, I also flared one end into an angle shape. This may be useful for making gouges etc. I also punched a hole into a piece of 6mm steel. .

My clogs:

There's a website for tin knockers called www.tintinkers.org. I believe many of the members make their own tinplate.

Hello Dave.

Hi Sprout and Sam.

And what do you think is particularly dangerous about the Blacker?

I'm growing a 'full set' as I can't shave at the moment!

Just fill it with nitroglycerine. It won't get bashed twice!