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lol. camera needs the date set apparently.

as promised, the pictures first the lathe second the extra scrap metal I got for my pile I have several small pieces of new metal mostly brass and aluminum barstock from 1/8 rod brass and aluminum to 1.5 inch brass rod and finnaly my new post vise the threads are excelent even the bolts to mount it to the post were included, lol

just got my new smithy 3in1 lathe drill press and mill home and unloaded. I will get pictures of it and the new legvise tomarrow. I also got my new camera today so now i can take pictures again. the lathe I got by posting an ad on craigslist looking for equipment and materials. I got my new smithy 3 in 1 and a truck load of scrap metal(pallet strap, bedframes, antenna parts) new metal(alluminum brass and steel rod and plate) as well as the many many boxes of parts that go with the 3 in 1. my little s10 was loaded down with the springs were compressed as far as they could and all of it for only $200. after I loaded the lathe this guy started asking can you use this or this. my answer, of course, if you wanna add it to the pile, put it in the truck. right now the lathe is in 4 major parts with 15-20 boxes of misc parts and a operators manual. I also got a copy of the book home machinist. so I guess as well as blacksmithing I will be looking for help with machining things now. It is official I have outgrown my shop. I barely have enough room to hold all os the machines and tool much less work in there, time to rebuild once again pictures WILL come tomarrow when I can get good pics it is too late tonight in a few weeks(probably less) I'll let you all know how well I can mill or turn something useful.

The jaws are 5 1/2 inches wide and open to over 4 inches. the threads are nice and square and it turns pretty easily except for the last 1/2 inch when closing gets a little hard to turn. i figure if i degrease it and then clean and regrease it, it should be fine.

I picked up a very large and heavy post vise yesterday from an antique store. I paid 120 for it, and once I get it cleaned up and my camera working again I'll get a pic posted, unfortunatly the cammera I have isn't working anymore. perhaps I will get a new one tomarrow

How would you make a cast in place band?

well the vinegar is nothing new, of course. but using a bag in a bucket to hold it and water as a means to force the vinegar around the part...pure genius!! I have a spare bucket, and more than a few bags, thanks for my new setup

I vote josh or zack, if "the new kid" doesn't already have a first name

now phil you walked right into that one. sorry I'm in one of those moods today, just overlook me. roflmao

phil, they work by pumping propane into one end, and lighting the gas once it is inside the big round part. then it makes things hot. lol

yes exactly, how do you make one of those? would it work if I just welded a plate to a round bar, or how would you forge one. As I said I was thinking take a ballpeen hammer and heat and flatten the peen end bu setting it on my anvil as if I had struck the anvil with it, and then flatten out the peen from that position.

I am trying to make a hammer to flatten a blade and to help take out hammer marks. the hammer with what looks like a plate on its face. I have a pallpeen hammer, how would I go about making it into one of these hammers. I'm thinking heat the peen and then strike flat as if trying to upset the face.

if your only running one forge at a time, then a tee and two regulators will get you what you're looking for. it sounds like you want one tank, and the ability to walk in pick a forge and fire it up, without messing with changing out lines and moving regulators. so one tank a tee and then two regulators and hoses. I see no reason you shouldn't be able to run two forges off of one tank with that set up. but like I said if you intend to run both, at the same time, I'm not sure if you will run into freezing problems.

what kind of "philia" are you refering to, as in hemophilia, or necrophilia? these would be two very different disease so tread carefully with the answer. lol are you hemerageing anvils or do you have a pathological need to love them? is the former then just bleed out, all over my front yard, if the second, I don't think I have the proper degrees to even consider the question.

looking good let us know how wel it turned out. nice open air smithy, much more organized then mine. lol

all you need is a tee at the tank, and then regulator for each forge seperatly. I'm n ot sure if the tank can hold up to two forges. there might be som eissue with it freezing up like a grill tank does on a single forge. I have never tried this nor have i heard of anyone trying. so let me know how it turns out.

well keep in mind anvil addiction and anvilosis/anvilitis are seperate things. the second and third are diseases thought to be contracted similarly to blacklung, the coal miners disease caught from breathing too much coal dust. these diseases are thought to be caught from a time spent around a vast number of different blacksmithing tools. unfortunatly like cocaine, blacksmithing addiction can be contracted(is that the right word?)with only one dose. in fact most cases of anvil addiction(or blacksmithing addiction) happen after only one time, the victims claim "I'll try it just this once, I will not become an addict." most do become addicts after the first try. ...Hello my name is Tim, I am an addict.....I know I am and I don't care. I will learn to cope and no 12 step programs will help me. I won't let it!!! Like my insanity I don't suffer from it, I enjoy every minute.

happy birthday to both of you, and my 3 year old, today is avery's birthday too.

Get off that couch and get us a picture.. you should know by now the blacksmith breed is to our equipment like zombies are to brains. I think I have even seen a couple of them in a daze limping down a path moaning coal...uurgg propane....steel.

Scott, as long as the ground is suffiecient for each item, then I don't forsee any problems, just make sure it is a large enough ground for the biggest thing attached. I am by no means an authority, so someone might disagree.

I have not caught full blown anvilitis, I have the early stages: anvilosis. the sysptoms of which include, a strong desire to be near an anvil ussually with a hammer in one hand and hot steel in the other. the stong urge to start designing a new project every time you see metal, including structural steel still attached to a building in use. the automatic motions made towards the tool isle of any and all stores, and the zombie like leg drag created when a blacksmith has stepped an something sharp or in some other way injured a foot or leg while attempting to get to a certain metal item at the junk yard and then continues on the the item. this disease is the begining stages of anvilitis, it may progress itno full blown anvilitis but not in every case.

While the RR spike debate continues, I've seen sevreal times on this site where on smith or aother will say something like, bring a metzal to heat and water quench it. strike it, if it breaks it will make a good blade. I made a RR spike knife from a HC. when I got dont with the blade, I quenched it in water, and then otice a slight bow to the blade. not thinking i tried to tap it out. it broke the blade. yea another on broke. but i have plenty more. spike knives are fun to make, and can be a great source of free of cheap materials. just atch out for the RR nazis. In my town they are so nice as to pile the use and bent ones up near the tracks for me...I wanna believe it is for me. lol. good job with the forge, just keep the fires hot and the hammer swinging!

if standing at the anvil working he would have been to the right of russ, if in the middle of the room watching then to his left.

nice golf club! lol excellent example of drawing.

8:30-2. I was there with my wife and son. she was the one with the red hoody one before it warmed up. I spent most of the day over in the corner talking to a few smiths.