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Sorry I took video of that I'll see if I can nab some stills. -Solvarr Basicly he used klyr fire and torched the underside of the perice with a blowtorch till it set. Then if I remember right he put a base layer of clear enamel And torched it till it melted from the underside And then added a generous sprinkling of the colored enamel and then blow torched it from the underside till it smoothed out. The coeficient of expansion is important and keeping direct flame off the glass is vital. A flat plate or a pipe with an end cap can be used for that in a forge. Glass is really sensitive to dirty flame.

The Clay Spencer demo was great. It answered a host of questions about enameling and flower construction. I have included my flickr site links for the demo. (if you load the piclens firefox add-on it is much easier to browse the photos. Clay Spencer Demo Photos Clay Spencer Enameling Photos Nol Putnam Yesteryear Sidedraft Honeymoon Photos... My wife is such a good sport about all this Williamsburg Blacksmith Williamsburg Silversmith

There is a group up in new england I heard about that does a welded face anvil every couple of years as a demo. If I can stumble across the data again I'm planning on going.

15421 Five Forks Rd. Amelia VA 23002 - Google Maps I think Google maps is spot on though. Hope you don't mind I fixed your address in google maps.

December first is the day Patron Saints Index: Saint Eligius Wikipedia's writeup is kinda fun Saint Eligius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia but there are others Patron Saints Index: blacksmiths * Brigid of Ireland feb 1st June 10th * Dunstan may 19th * Giles september 1st * James the Greater e Greater" july 25th formerly august 5th * Leonard of Noblac november 6th

you can reserve the tools for how ever many days in advance you have prepaid your membership in months. a 12 month membership is 12 days out But if nobody is on the tool you just have to play nice with others and not hog any one tool. I'll post a review once it opens and I take the tour. For some one off tool fabrications it seems like a great deal.

It's 100$ a month plus consumables. So if you run the gas forge. You write what the pressure gauge on the tank says at the start and the end and they charge you for the gas. The 3d printer they charge you for the used plastic. And you have to pay for a safety training class for many of the tools (30-40$)

Has anyone tried using a TechShop? TechShop Open-Access Public Workshop They are opening one near where I live and it looks intriguing and well a little too good to be true. I checked and they have no power hammers (yet) and the forges run gas.

The things we found when we were playing with that design. I say playing because we were using Innertube rubber instead of leather because it was free an let us mock up bellows easily without spending hundreds on leather. The ribs really helped our performance since it made the bladder behave more like a piston and less like dizzy Gillespie's cheeks. we setup a two valve system in the ones we made. A standard intake valve under the handle which was a peice of rubber tacked in four places under the intake hole (leather worked better here than the rubber) In the base we made what we called a tongue valve. we made a rectangular piece of rubber and made it so it would naturally rest on the square output channel in the base of the bellows. if you do it right it closes off most of the air from the forge on the filling stroke and gets out of the way when you are pumping the air out to the forge I have evidence for the top valve. The bottom valve was just us saying romans weren't dumb. Have you seen the portable roman foundry on the viking bronze website?

Know anyone with an oxy acetylene rig? While back an acquaintance needed to do something similar. He rough cut the hole and then had enough heat because he cut in a spiral to build the heat he was able to finish the hole by drifting. He needed to mount a 3 inch bar to a 1 inch plate so he worked up a tapered mortise on the end. Forced the sucker through the yellow hot glowing hole. Flipped it over and used a rosebud to finish doming the tennon. Seems like you should be able to do something similar. Be sure you get the right tips and gas mix for the thicker steel and do a few practice cuts if you have never done this before.

Mine (a 400) has the bolts through the gears the same way except mine has square headed bolts. can you rotate the flywheel a full 360? On mine there is a "screw drive" hooked to the back of the flywheel that the gears makes the flywheel/blower wheel turn. If you have broken tooth or other scrap down there it can cause your problem. Really odd thought. Have you turned it upside down and fiddled with it? I had a loose bolt fall out of one I turned upside down and fiddles with about 10 years ago and it worked great after that.