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Slowly sneaking up on it. Not sure that I will have it done by June 7th, but we will see. Was hoping to be a little further along but had company for the long weekend and all sorts of rain. Need to check out the steel rack at work and see what there is for 1/8 x 1" strapping to simplify bullrush leaves. Otherwise start flattening a bunch of 1/2 round. Hmmm... looking at the one picture I may have to spread the 'M' a little wider.
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A couple of bicycle wheels and a piece of treaded rod. tie the rail to the axle near the balance point and wheel it out.
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Was going good for a while, had lunch cleaned out a huge clinker. Watched the rain coming down the valley. Think my fire was choked off from to many small (pea size bits of coal) couldn't get the air through. Wasn't making heat for me again. Packed up just as the rain rolled in. Anyways I think I have a good bit of the gate filled in in my head... just a matter of getting to it.
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Talk your friendly mechanic into taking a strip off one end of that sharpened cutting edge, and then split that in half and you'll have 2 cut offs. One can be notched and wrapped with a rod for a handled tool. The other can be for your hardy when you figure it out. Looks like you are off and running with the scavenging, packrat gene must be strong, you'll fit right in
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The welder would have to be set up for DC, If AC it breaks the magnetic field in an object
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Correct me if I'm wrong... but I thought electricity went around the outer surface of an object, same reason a farady cage works. So why not plate it with a more conductive surface rather than trying an alloy. may end up with the best of both
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have you tried preheating your melting pot before welding. and just because its cast iron doesn't mean it will explode when quenched, just means that it has the potential to fail.
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was there a fire axe somewhere in the fishing boat that was being pilfered?
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I'm thinking that fluxing for heat treat has more to do with scale prevention than decarb. But that's more of a guess on my part.
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Some coolness at the Kamloops Gunshow. REALLY should have bought them both.... but $300 was a bit more than I had for spending money. First is a Finnish hewing axe (guy had it labeled as English as that's where he had gotten it from) The other is a Goosewing hewing axe. ohhh! did it feel good in the hand. One table had a Massai spearhead about 2' long, should have grabbed a pic of it and more Ruger #1's in calibers I'd love to have than I seen at a show yet.
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We use arctech 223 rod at the shop. Basically a 7018 rod. Bbuild up, either cylindrical stone on the angle grinder or a carbide burr in the die grinder and a finish smooth up with a flap wheel in the die grinder. Just spent a few days doing all the grapple pins for the track loader (322 hoe with an Imac head). When the guy came in to line bore the articulation for the 545 skidder much the same process just had the tooling to machine it out just so. And as far as I know the few rod ends we have sent to a local machine shop have only been welded and then re bored. Most often a new end is made and just welded on. No heat treats involved. But If you have doubts the dealership is phone call away.
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Cool that makes sense. Appreciate the info.
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Wanted to try something a little bigger, leaf spring seax started out 12" I screwed up and then I found a crack so it got shortened twice. doesn't seem to be any more surprises.
Improvised bending jig for making a ring from 1/4 x 1 1/4" with a 11" diameter or so. Along with the lower corner pieces for a gate.
While I had a bit of coal burning I used the heat to make a hardy that will be the base of a bending fork.
And last but not least, anyone seen a tool like this before. The pointy bit slide in and out.
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Well that might explain it... I do remember reading someplace about the wobble in the earths rotation changing. And you do have better leverage up there Frosty
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To be honest I never even thought of looking for the strops and stones. Wasn't in the upstairs of the house and didn't see anything when I was in the basement, but there was wall to wall boxes and clutter. I am sure there is more than a few treasures stuck somewhere yet. I did ring the unattached stone when I picked it up, remember from the school safety videos how well they can explode. I figured the razor would give me a nice pattern to work from if nothing else
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An old gentleman passed away a while ago and his daughter was supposed to let me go through his tools. Guess he had brought a woodworking chest with him from the Netherlands if I remember right. Anyways the kids were up grabbed the stuff they wanted to keep and sold the house last November. So never did get first look around. Driving by I saw a yard sale and the new owners were clearing things out. Found a few goodies. neatest is the top tool for forming collars on diamond drill bits. found a small rail anvil in a back corner, just didn't need it bad enough. There was an Assayers furnace in the corner. with a few small crucibles. Wish I had my camera at the house. Coolest though was the guy was talking about a few rifles and had found a box of 7x57 tucked in a corner. I found the rifle stuffed between the floor joists in the basement. Couldn't talk him out of it though. Externally it was in rough shape no scope no open sights and pretty rusty on the bottom side from were the mice were living on the blanket it sat on. Bunch of other odds and ends there but anything better he was holding onto for now. Spent $40, oh and a small kids compound bow that my daughter had already walked off with. as they are getting interested in archery
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On 4/7/2016 at 0:41 PM, Frosty said:
The more noble (reactive) metal will plate the lesser if in an electrolyte. The electrolyte can be anything that makes water a conductor: detergent, salt, baking soda, ammonia, potato squeezins, lemon juice, sulfuric acid, etc. The more aggressive and or better the conductor the faster the replacement action.
You can extract copper from soil, water, etc. by tossing scrap iron on or in it. Copper and tin are less reactive than aluminum so the electrolyte causes the al to go into solution and the reaction replaces it with bronze, copper, etc. If you want to speed it up use a more conductive electrolyte, hang the items out of direct contact and connect the two with a wire. Yes it's a battery and the electric currant is carrying metal ions from the anode to the cathode. (Do I have that backwards again?) Hooking up a DC current source will speed things and allow you to direct which goes where.
This is pretty much straight out of the chemistry set Mother and Dad got me for my birthday when I was in elementary school. No my memory isn't really that good, the subject comes up often enough it's drummed it into my dented cabesa. Boats in salt water need help and get zincs bolted or welded to the hull to be dissolved saving the steel hull.
Frosty The Lucky.
Makes me want try a few experiments now. Big open pit copper mine just up the mountain and I know of an addit that has rather verdigris green rocks in a seam in it. Just need the snow to go away Still 3' up on top.
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Wonderful job all around. I do like the looks of that knife,
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Makes me think of a friend that home schools. She was having a xxxx of a time with math and her youngest. Then things started to click into place... A month later Mom realized she had grabbed the wrong book to work out of and now the kids a year ahead in her math.
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2 hours ago, JHCC said:
Side note: per the conversation elsewhere about hammer cost vs. hammer quality, it's worth noting that I paid over $200,000 for this hammer.
Of course, it came with a nice house and some land....
That made my day! Must be a tremendously great hammer that swings itself for that price
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Good to see I have learned a few things here.
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I may be wrong, but you should be able to put your work on a block of wood and peen the other side without mucking up the texture that's against the wood. A spring swage would be another way of doing it
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Hi, there is a guy out in Westbank Summerland area and another out in Joe Rich (BCRob I think). I'm out in Greenwood. That's the closest of us that I can remember right off hand
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Thanks guys! Just making it up as I go along...