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oh! nice score that opens up a few possibilities.

Just very lightly radius where the chipped out edges are and put it to use, anything you remove is hardened steel you won't get back for another 50 years of hard use. Same or better shape than my peter wright and it works just fine. Scale and use will shiny up the face before you know it. If you find you need a really sharp square corner make up a hardy tool for that. Best thing for now is put it to use and see where you feel it's at in a year

just a thought, but what about a centered on near centered hanger that has the hook on an angle so it all fits in the cabinet.

the 1018 will be a little on the soft side. 1045 is your better choice and it can be hardened to some degree.If you find you really need a flat just take an angle grinder and make a flat.

Beat Frosty to the introductions hehehe! Hello, and Welcome, without knowing where in the world you are it'll be hard for any of us to help. Add a location in your profile and you might be surprised whos next door.

That's a lot of time to soak. Any idea what the dimensions and original carbon content were? 2% is up into the bottom end of cast iron. Sounds like an interesting book to check out.

Honestly, the edges are a long way from any need to be fixed. More harm than good. My Peter Wright has far worse edges but it still works great for most things. Use it for a year or two and then see if those torch cuts are still a problem.

Can always use what you have available and chuck it in a drill press or cordless drill even and take a file to it. Won't take long to put a taper on one.

beat me to it JHCC. the more you have the more you can attract... gravity right

Depending on how much bentonite you need check out a feed store. My wife picked up a bag of very finely powdered stuff to dust the chicken coop with. Wasn't the cheapest but it may be a viable option.

I'd recommend doing a bunch of research on blister/shear steel before trying to reinvent the wheel. Been done for a long time before better methods came along.

My brother requested a new house number for his place. Can't remember what he had before, but I think it was nailed to the burnt off gate post. Old spring tooth harrow tine a few horse shoes and misc. bit of 3/8" sq and 5/16 round. Fairly happy with how it turned out. the M needed a little rounding in the middle and maybe pointier tops. The shape and flow of the 2 and 5 are touch off, but it will have to do. I was starting to mess them up more trying to get them right than just leaving them alone so it was time to stop. should be easy to mount with using the mounting hole in the tine.

Thanks for the picture. It got my brain working. I have a sprocket off a 322 Cat excavator, and a vise to be set up for outside use. just hadn't figured out how to make my few bits of angle iron work best.

My neighbour had several boxes of the red clay tiles for making a fake brick wall by your fire place. They are only maybe a 1/4" thick. after the second or third heat they crumble . but they make for a nice disposable surface on the bottom of the forge and the heat doesn't appear to travel very far into it. Another advantage is when the flux pools somewhere on the floor of the forge you can usually just take out the lump and spread things flat again. Will also work as grog if you need to add to cheap fireclay from the hardware store to patch or cover some deeper damage from poking a wall. May be worth a shot if they are cheap or found at a yard sale somewhere along the way.

Looks very similar to my short handled 3lb hammer. Pretty sure you'll like it once you start using it.

Everythings a little damp this morning, sprinkled some over night. Still can't see very far up the valley for smoke but the air feels clean a fresh again. Amazing what a bit of moisture will do.

I'm sure Charles can give you all the beans you want, but you may end up sealed in a pressure suit a good part of the time...

Try this again...Brothers place looks a lot better than anticipated. He'll have more than a few dead trees at a latter date but that will just replace his fire wood pile that burnt. all the usual small smokers that try to start up again but looks like things are under control. Same on the Tesalinden fire west of Oliver/Osooyoos. Had really nice clear skies all the way over when I took Mom and the wife over to pick up fruit for canning. Started to roll in last night and can't really see the mountains on the east side of town now for the smoke. Grand Forks is heavier still as the Stickpin was reported to be 4.5 Km away, at least winds have been favourable and slowing the spread. Feel a bit better that at least the highways are open again and a person can move if they need to. I'm glad your guys are on the way Ausfire.

Not to be a pain, but with point #3 typically the bottom of the fire is were the most oxygen is as that's were it's coming out of the tuyer. I have understood the closest to the air supply is your oxidizing flame, half way up should be in the neighbourhood for a neutral flame and the upper portion furthest from the air supply will be carburizing. And scale is a function of hot iron reacting to oxygen.

forbidden... West Rock Creek fire up to 4500 hectares. 50% contained 30 houses several out buildings. very little smoke from it. highway open again. Stickpin fire south of Grand Forks is socking us right in w/ smoke.

A really good tutorial for nail headers. Few different ways to make them and what makes a good header.

Beautifully executed. It fills the space and has a wonderful flow to it. Job very well done!

Just got the phone with Mom, brother was in at his place put the sprinklers on everything he could last night, flared up over night and burnt everything around him, his wood piles and some lumber but everything that was wet was untouched. House is still there. Mom's happy and cheerful. So sounds like things are improving at least for us. He'll have a whack of yellow pine firewood to cut on the hill above his place. Just hoping everyone else gets of reasonably lucky!

Well keep it up guys... few people posted on facebook that it sprinkled a little over night, enough to clear a little smoke. Guess another one is east on the Paulson. Highway might be closed out that way... whole area is trying to burn up. Few pictures up of shops, sheds, and cars that have burnt. One shop is four foundations and I know that 2 nice anvils were hiding in there from an estate sale. The crews seem to be doing a pretty good job of saving peoples houses only a few have burnt that I have heard of so far. picture someone posted on facebook looking east the first night, Rock Creek is just off the right side of the picture in the valley bottom.

Fire started at Rock Creek BC. Jjust above my brothers place. First day went to 700 hectares now up around 2500 hectares on the second day. Didn't get his trailer but got a neighbours, and moms is good. 14 hours away visiting friends. Highways are shut down close to home. Bunch of other fires nearby messing things up. A plane crash next to the border near Oroville WA. burnt up the mountain closing the highway there. She's big ugly and nasty! 0% contained working to hard saving houses right now. Just asking for rain dances that exclude the lightening and wind... sucks being out here worrying about xxx but wouldn't be any better at home in the thick smoke worrying... Rain Please and Thank you!