Jump to content
I Forge Iron

the iron dwarf

Members
  • Posts

    2,139
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by the iron dwarf

  1. nice anvil, I cant help with the maker but someone here will if you measure the height length and width someone here should be able to give an idea of the weight
  2. I could use a few pounds too, let me know how to pay and when you can drop it off
  3. lead is a bit soft and with use the hole stretches, original ones were cast or forged from iron or steel
  4. picked up 4 fly presses recently but 2 of them had no weights so im thinking of getting suitable sized mild steel balls, drilling a hole through them then getting them hot and drifting the hole to a square taper to suit
  5. I only seen one poster namecalling, I dont know if the anvil was bought in that condition or if the op tried to repair it but he obviously thinks he knows a lot about anvils and did not like to be wrong. I stand by everything I posted
  6. our main shop anvil is only about 150 lbs but it gets very heavy use 5 days a week, often with a 14 lb hammer, it is 300 years old and should be good for another 300. it is often used for working large bits of chrome vanadium and other tough materials and it will probably have less wear in my lifetime than yours will have with light use in a year but you are an expert and know everything
  7. anywhere it has been welded on should be avoided by at least an inch all round and taking off 1/1000" of the surface can take decades off its life. if it is as bad as it looks it could be no better than a chinese lump of cast iron. the heat of welding can ruin the hardness of the top plate over a large area
  8. looks like lots of damage on that anvil, all of the heel and edges seems to have had welding and grinding done on it, hope you did not pay more than $50 for it
  9. are the coils getting power are the connectors on the right coils if it is a 3 phase pump is it going the right way got P and T on right way
  10. today it was 2 fly presses and the tops for 2 more ( which will be going home with me tomorrow one is a denbeigh number 2 and the other is the same size but I dont know the maker yet
  11. markings can be hard to spot, you may need to light it from angles to see them, some dont show up till years later like our main shop anvil, thought it had a stylized S and was from one maker but later found out it was a D Hill fifth foot. I normally use a pressure washer after initial pictures, then more pix, then wirebrush, then more pix, then dry and more pix, then chalk or flour and more pix
  12. I can supply a block of 4140 to fit your hardy hole, you are quite local to me so call in if you can, im at NN14 1QF It is a nice old anvil, you have a hardy hole as long as tools have a good stop collar on them a cutting table the bick I would build up with weld maybe, do you have experience of welding wrought iron? welding it is different from welding steel the face is harder to deal with as it needs to be hard and fixed all over so it may be better to get a block anvil to use as well
  13. you could try air to get the stroke measured, if the rod telescopes it will be with much less force as it will be a smaller bore and dont do a full stroke each time, I use limit switches to save time and that means I can do a stroke in less than 1 second
  14. nice group of fractures you have there, looks like a tree root
  15. the top of my forges are about 30" unless requested otherwise, this is due to it being the average height I found and the legs pack into the case for shipping, forge is about 24" square and 6" deep. one is now on its way to new zealand and that is almost exactly the opposite side of the globe, an other is going to wales on monday so they need to pack up easily
  16. humidity here is predicted at 76% on saturday for worcester, I will be there trading at an event but at least it is getting cooler
  17. I was 17 before your father was born probably and TP is older still so you know how much your press will weigh but probably dont have experience designing, building and using presses, I made my first one about 1980 and was still using it until about 2 years ago when I sold it and built a new one, made about a dozen in between for other people. the press I use now weighs about 70 lbs and can do a stroke in less than a second, I can also get it to stop anywhere I want with an accuracy of about 100th of an inch, speed is important in forging presses
  18. a 400 pound press would not be a lot of use, I made the smallest and lightest powered hydraulic press I could that is usable and that is over 20,000 pounds ( a little over 10 tons ) our main shop anvil is 300 years old, we have older and make replicas of 1000 year old anvils to use and then sell, less than 150 years is brand new to us
  19. just weld it over the entire area rather than round the edges tack a 3/8" square down the length of the top, place on the top plate and weld first on one side then the other until you reach the edges so the entire area is welded
  20. I have stainless steel springs but maybe they dont exist according to steve miller a friend works for a major spring maker and has springs made of titanium, glass and even concrete
  21. most solenoid valves have a manual button, try it with the pump turned off first to see if both move, it may be stuck. then check there is a voltage to each coil when there should be and that the coils are not open or short circuited
  22. yes hayden you have a burner that does not work designed by someone who does not care if people get hurt, it would be better to build a burner of a proven design that does not include the faults listed in the previous post if TKOR knew anything about gas forges he would not have included those faults how have you lined your forge? I hope you have not left exposed ceramic fibers in there as they are very bad for your lungs a bit like asbestos, it needs coating before it gets hot for the first time
  23. anything by the king of randumb should be avoided, his aim seems to be to help people win a darwin ( anyone know if he is still locked up for the explosives incident? )
  24. do you know anyone who works on cars, springs, torsion bars, drive shafts
×
×
  • Create New...