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Jacob

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  1. Get the OA set if you have a good opportunity. It's great for a lot of things. You can weld, cut, and do hot work. It's handy for tweaking and working on ironwork that no longer easily fits in a forge like peening or adjusting bends in a final assembly. It's great for very concentrated heats, like upsetting. However, you'll spend a lot of money on fuel if you run it as an all-purpose forge. For occasional use, you could set it up with some fire bricks like some people do with weed burners, but long term you'll want something cheaper and safer like propane.
  2. A friend of mine has an old blower that I took apart. Something had fallen into the gearbox and one of the gears got ripped up pretty good. At the time I thought it was a wooden gear, but I'd believe pressed fiber. Are these things pretty much junk when the fiber gear dies?
  3. I bought the Grizzly knife grinder for armouring. I like it. I will probably make some curved plattens for it, and I wouldn't mind having a smaller diameter drive wheel for grinding deeper into inside curves. I will probably get some flap wheels to solve that, though. I bought the belts from a merchant on ebay. I don't recall if I just used her site, or purchased multiple auction lots.
  4. My shop is 16x30 and I'm currently rewireing it. I'm putting a double outlet every 6' on the long walls, and a couple on the short walls. The short walls are the garage door at one end and a large window plus the forging area at the other end. I haven't got any clever ideas for extension cords that haven't already been mentioned. However, I just bought a 230V welder and wanted to have some flexibility in plugging it in. My breaker box is next to the garage door, and I want to be able to plug it in by the hot work area (opposite corner of the garage). I went to an electrical supply store and got parts for a 50' 50 amp cord cheaper than I had found pre-built cords. I have one 3 prong outlet near the breaker box, in line with a four prong outlet for a pottery kiln. The heavy extension cord will be hung up on the wall on hooks so that it can be removed when I need to take the welder out into the driveway or the yard. The rest of the time it will be just like being hard wired along the wall, without having to spend the money for the wire and outlets twice. I have a dedicated 60 AMP breaker coming off the house for the outlets, and a branch off of one of the inside outlet breakers that I have powering overhead lights only.
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    Hammer Racks

    I made a quick, simple hammer rack for my new shop. I've got more height than floor space to work with, so I took an old free wooden pallet, knocked out a board or two in the middle, and stood it up on end behind a workbench along a wall. I'm using the bottom side out, so I have hammers in the top and in the middle rung. I added wood spacers inside where the forklift tines would go to keep heads from falling through. I need to go back and remove a few spacers, because I seem to have a lot more large handles than small handles. It cost nothing in materials and required no power tools. So far, all of the stakes and hardy tools are piled up on the shelf under the workbench.
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