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They all leak.

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.

Hoot! That's a flypress! So, the weights are simply held in place with gravity yes, and you haven't yet installed them in the first photo? Are you holding a part to a smaller press in the second photo? A fly arm from a size 6 press How are flypresses rated and where is your big press on that rating scale?
It's a size 10
My son likes your bicycle. Seems there is a resurgence of the classic road bikes (the retro bike), and apparently yours has possibilities.

You've piqued my interest. I like what I see, but I'd really like to see a couple of photos of the entire flypress.

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.


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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.

YouTube - blacker power hammer


Clearly the landslide winner!

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!

Try posting on www.tintinkers.org