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I believe that carpenters hammer has an adze on the one side (as well as the nail puller) to do whatever final shaping or trimming was needed.  If someone has the book The King of Tools, it’s probably in there.

Scrap pin for the scrap bin?  

Anvils for sale - i know the guy.  Generally he wants $5 a pound for his anvils.  He imports them from Europe obviously.  Has relatives that buy them for him around Germany and other locations.  He does have some nice anvils, but they come with a high price. 

They are 24 inches long. What other dimension would you like?

Definitely wall hangers.  Too interesting to use.  

Probably last rivet.  Hope i can find out who Burgess was.  Maybe ship designer at Norfolk Ship Yard?  Hopefully my friend Google will help.  

Ran across these this morning and they followed me home.  Chrome plated and inscribed ith USS Raven, W B Burgess, June 28,1939.  So far Google told me that is was a minesweeper and its keel was laid on June 28, 1939.   Apparently these were used for the keel laying  

It is  a Mousehole forge anvil of originally 117 pounds or so 1 0 5 = 112+0+5

M H Armitage

Great vises.  I have two.  One mounted horizontal and the other vertical.  Handy vises to have

Looks like its for gripping a bar of a specific dimension

Thanks Frosty and Hojpoj.   

Frosty reminded me of what I had forgotten from my youth about chemistry.  I checked, and now there is a cement dissolver sold by, among others, Home Depot, that is non acid and biodegradable.  I may get some and, after drilling some holes, pour it in and see.what happens.  Thank you both for jarring those brain cells.

Well, I already have both a coal and gas forge, so was really thinking about cleaning this up and making it look new again and not use it.  I have only seen a couple of these tabletop forges.

Thought about the air hammer and chisel, but was concerned about cracking the cast iron.

Got this great old forge that has the pan filled with cement.  Want to restore it, but first have to remove the cement.  Don’t want to crack the cast iron by beating on the cement, so any ideas?

What a beauty!  I think Les Paul would like the Less Paul. Great imaginitive work, Das!

We’ve got a rag doll as well.  A truly boneless cat.  

No it’s a staking punch for a pocket watch

I use the link belt where you can add or subtract length to get the fit right.  I get it at my local woodworking store.  They use it on machines to lessen vibrations supposedly.

People said they never sausage damage.......

Looking at the end of the shaft, I doubt if it had a handle.  Was most likely directly coupled to a motor to drive it.  In addition, I’ve never seen a 5 inch diameter blower that was turned by hand.  Always lineshaft or motor driven.  

Saw that.  Page was last updated in 2007 and the order page has no address to mail the form to.

I’ve got many of the issues but would like to read the rest. Anyone got any ideas where I could find the Blacksmith Gazette CD’s?

Definitely black locust. I’ve probably cut down 7-800 of those over the years. Back in 1970, Grandaddy had to sell off 32 acres when they were building Interstate 64 and we cut out all the red cedar and black locust for fence posts. Was LOADS of fun !  Very durable stuff.  Still have some of those posts in use........

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Understood.  However, the ad says “are required to run only 40 revolutions per minute”

I’d definitely remove the handle if using the pulleys.  I thought it interesting that the pulleys were designed to run at 40 rpm.   So, that would imply that the 400 should run around 40 rpm?  That would be one complete turn of the handle every 1.5 seconds or so

Just got this great Champion Blower.  According to the 1912 Champion Catalog, it is the 400-1/4.model. Powered by hand or lineshaft.  Handle is bent, but it works fine with both handle and pulleys.  Here’s some pictures and the catalog page.  Definitely going to clean this up and see how it works.