the iron dwarf

problem with C frame is the tend to spit out tooling and need a lot more metal to make them strong. large DC stick welder, the ESAB one I have is well over a third of a ton brass would be good for the slides but mine are steel on steel control gear is important to reduce wasted travel time and get consistent results, I can set top and bottom travel to 0.25mm as well as controlling it by the footswitch top tool holder needs to be small outside or when you need to do a tight bend it will be in the way you never need your top tool holder to touch the table and make tooling to suit, 6" 150mm is close enough bottom tooling may need a stripper plate for drifting and punching so make sure it can be fixed down well and tooling should be quick and easy to change so you can swap out hot tools and replace with cool ones my table has a hole in the middle, and sliding out the tool pallet then releasing the bolt holding the top tool means it can drop though and into a bucket of water, replace with another top tool and slide back in pallet in about 30 seconds press frame: imagine it made of rubber and how it will flex, make sure the flex cannot break welds,lots of webs on corners, frame will flex, measure it with a dial gauge and make sure it is designed so nothing goes towards you if it fails.

nice work, I approve of it even if some here dont

it can be made out of wrought iron or cast iron but steel would be far easier and cheaper, rivets can be bought or made

Hi rocketman nice bullrushes and pokers anythin you need just ask

but then who do google ask?

Charles, rabid squirrels are not known for spelling but yours is always 'interesting' and even google translate would have difficulty with it but it is fun trying to work out what you mean

any 'king of ran dumb' vids should be treated as a way of getting a darwin

just use it for 100 years and it will get that nice patina back

that motor looks rather open, you need a TEFC motor really as grinding dust will get inside and will damage the windings. totally enclosed fan cooled

heat from the weld may have affected the area it is on, just work around it

those marks will smooth out a bit with work it was made by Isaac Hill, a friend of mine could give you a bit more of the history of it

the slight surface rust will make the rebound low, with use it will get better

dont do any machining on it, the b est way to clean it is to use it it is in great shape we have 2 D HILL 5th foot anvils at my place, one of them is a sawmakers which I believe is rare as a 5th foot

most butane regulators here in the uk are fixed pressure and are much lower than the 1 to 15 psi you need, add a pressure gauge to see what you have, also you may want to use a proper gas rated ball valve rather than the one rated for air in your picture, yes using butane is different than propane

what types of steel do you need? I have some BD3 high carbon, high chromium tool steel, some 4140, and lots more and im in northants

a tapered tool being struck can break off the heel on an anvil so it depends on what you want to achieve, a snug fitting tool resting on shoulders is what I like. I would make a tool fit snugly in the hole in 2 directions and then mark the sides and have a post with different sockets on top to take a range of tools ( the post is easier to fix or replace than a good anvil would be ) in the floor we have 2 deep metal sockets set in concrete, one with a leg vice on a post and the other a tool holding post, they can be swapped over and either can be fitted in 4 ways in either socket

ditchman if you wish to learn the basics of forgework which you will need before forging blades there are courses at my place, also new known steels for making blades, and I also have a belt grinder for re homing soon I am west of you in northants close to J7 of the A14

thank you slag, was just trying to see if mike knew what he wanted to do

so which ores do you have in israel, bronze or brass and how much metal do you get from each kilo of ore, I would expect no more than 10% in weight of metal from the rock. what process do you use to extract the metal from the rock, I would be interested to learn more

you have bronze and brass ore in israel? in most parts of the world it is only possible to make these metals from alloys of copper and zinc or tin not directly from ore. aluminium can also be a problem to smelt with just gas as a lot of electricity is required as well

I was critical of this project earlier but I am very happy to see it back

got this recently, cast, loud ring, good rebound, maybe 70 pound but cant make out the name on the side

clearing the zinc oxide is quick compared to regrowing the lining in your lungs, in the US what would happen if the fumes you create affected someone else nearby? it can kill if they have other problems to do with breathing. tarnished brass will not become copper and when melting copper remember it really likes oxygen so do everything to keep it away or you can get a copper sponge

to make brass safer you need to remove the zinc from it, it is then copper and not brass. IIRC brass melts about 3 degrees below the point at which the zinc burns, zinc fumes cause METAL FUME FEVER which is no fun and can put you in hospital or quite a long time. or even in the ground

building something as a forge, kiln and glass furnace all in one would probably cost more than buying all 3 new and would work less well. a lot of things are location dependent so in which of the at a guess 150 countries that participate here is home? some things are ability dependant are you rich in time but poor in money or vice versa? what do you want to be able to make? if you call round in the morning I will show you a forge for coke, coal, charcoal I am in from about 9.30 till 5pm