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Good Morning, My understanding of a 'Hoof Pic' is so you can dig and pull toward yourself. In reality, I don't think there are any incorrect 'Hoof Pic's' Enjoy your opening, keep it Funn'. Neil

Good Morning, Thank You and Your Welcome!! The hardest thing to understand is, "Common Sense is not Common". LOL Neil

Good Morning, Do not drill with a Rotary Tool!! Use a Drill!! Cordless or Air. Drilling semi-slowly allows you to push the Drill Bit to stay on Center. If it starts off-center, it will stay off-center. You have a chance to move your Drill Bit to center, Only When You Are Starting the Hole!!! I use Jet Drills (for drilling Carb Jets and Forge Burner Jets), Metric and Number, for drilling the specific Jet Size for the Burner. I always use a 'Pin Vice' in my fingers, NO POWER TOOLS!! when drilling Jets. I am one of the 'Old School' Ol'Goats, that has Jet Drills, Jet Tapered Reamers and Jet Micrometers. No, I don't remember where I bought them. You have to keep your eyes and ears always open, to find them. They show up at the oddest times and if you don't say yes, they are GONE!! Yes, you can Solder up a Jet and drill it smaller. Yes, you can solder up a Mig Tip and make it whatever size you want. The Mig Tip should NEVER get hot, in use. It has cold gas going through it and cold air around it!! Neil

The only thing that would matter, is if there is a splash paddle on the bottom of the connecting rod of the compressor. One direction would splash the oil toward ????, the other direction would splash the oil the incorrect way. Neil

Good Morning, Mix the fines in a 5 gal pail with water, make mud. Grab a handful of mud and make small baseballs. Add the balls to the outside of your fire. There is no problem using fines. Easy to Coke up, lots of heat, fines go away. Voila!! Neil

Good Morning Nat, Use a reostat to control the motor speed. Neil

Good Morning Shain, A tiny LED light in the center. Put a button in your pocket to activate. Morse Code?? It looks wonderful. Time to 'Tye one On'. LOL Neil

Good Morning, My favorite measuring device is a not digital, not dial, Vernier Caliper. No battery, scrub it clean and it is good to go, regardless where you are and how dirty the floor is. Yes, I do have Digital Vernier, but it is not the one that is in my pocket. Geometry is simple, Pi r square or Cake are square, Pie R round. LOL I teach to do Math in your mind, simply. In a Blacksmith Shop, circumference is diameter x 3. plus a bit more. No calculator required. A friend of mine was the Press Operator at our local shipyard. 20ft Press, making compound bends in the Bow Plates for an Ice Breaker, 2" thick plate. His calculator was his soapstone and long-hand Math on the Steel Plates, No Batteries required. Digital doesn't mean you are smarter or are more accurate. Neil

Good Morning, It sounds normal to me. Looks like you have good control for light blows. What you are hearing is the compressor piston venting to atmosphere, when you do not have your foot on the pedal. I think what you are calling the 'Tap, miss, Tap, is because you were tapping VERY LIGHT. Make sure the air system is well oiled, that is the 'Life Blood'. Neil

John, Use plastic straws instead of crayons. They come out in the Forge, with a Flair!! Use the same wooden base for the form, straws are almost the same size. If you don't agitate the mudd too much, they stay in place. Neil

Good Morning, I use a large container of Garden Lime, for annealling. It is not toxic and it is easy to find. I learned from John Adolph to use Garden Lime for flux when welding. It doesn't eat up the Fire Bricks. Neil

Good Morning, At CanIRON II in Calgary, 1999, an older Blacksmith from Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, brought his 'little' Anvil. He had made it from 5 pieces of 'Off-Cuts'. He didn't need a security chain to keep it in one place. It weighed over 350lbs. LOL Mr. Plant just did things like this, just because he could. Yes, 350lbs was his 'little' Anvil, not his 'baby' Anvil. You could say he was 'old School', he didn't ask for permission first. He already had his mind made up to do it!! Neil

Good Morning, Files are mostly made from W1, that means water hardening. You can hammer the teeth in but that makes little cold shuts near the surface. Neil

Good Morning, Where does 'Tattling' come into the Tattle ...........? LOL Neil

Good Morning Desperado, What part of the World, are you making a shadow?? First you take the valve out. Fill it with water and grind away with a cutting disc. Neil