ThomasPowers

"Ships stuck in you". I understand that a possibility from the 1964 Alaskan Earthquake; but weren't you in California back then? So far I cut, prepped and forge welded my first Christmas gift for this year; a rusty barbwire basket hook. 4 more to go!

Yesterday I wire brushed a rusty wok I had gotten at the scrap yard to heat wax in for finishing ironwork. More rain today so I thought I would transfer the wax to the new container and make sure it was covered so it wouldn't rust anymore. DONE!

"None of that's "scrap"; that's all good stuff!" Thomas

Lost one of the barn cats last night. Dead on the side of the road at the end of the shop's driveway. Cat food usage will go down a bit---actually we are feeding the same; just bigger cats and hungrier as winter eases closer. So far of the way too many kittens: 1 rehomed, 2 dead from injuries. The life of a feral cat is almost medieval---"nasty, brutish and short."

Why not sand?

IIRC, ViCopper took his vise down to bare metal and shined it up and heat coloured it; before clear coating it. Me, I brush any loose rust off and oil/grease it and get to work with them...

Well I've know professional smiths still a-working in their 80's and hobby smiths still doing some hammering in their 90's so hopefully you still have a few years left in you to enjoy the craft!

How about a Halloween picture with a stump and the cleaver and 4 severed carrots---or parsnips....arrayed just so.

No, just that TBI is a fairly common reason for having impulse control. I'm an adult onset juvenile diabetic and so on insulin and have done the cranial concrete bounce test several times myself. I try to reread my posts before posting them just in case the monsters in my head have taken the reins in their teeth! (Been moderated for a typo before myself and am very thankful to the folks working to make this a site I can send kids to without worrying!)

Hoping the Barn Cats will reduce the shop critter population this winter. I'm thinking of putting in a cat door in the clean shop; but I need to keep them out of the forge shop as the nice dry sandy floor encourages them into bad habits!

Did you mix the cement by hand?

For solidly rusted items; I generally "try" them every weekend and apply penetrating solution again after every try. Out here setting them where the sun can really heat them up and then cool off during the night helps the solution penetrate. I generally don't get aggressive with items until several months of TLC have gone by with no results.

We currently have a Gomez; unfortunately Morticia died a couple of months ago. The outdoor barn cats are generally named by fur color(s), Tabby, Marmalade, Tawny, Grey, etc until they are adopted and given real names...

I have tongs designed to hold knife tangs and other tongs designed to hole knife blades. Students are not allowed to miss-apply them!

No just slow them down a bit...

I can set them on fire just dropping a lit match onto the floor. With the fan I might be closer to a "dust explosion" scenario.

Get some belt drive fans and find a small engine repair guy.....

It would be a White Out for sure!

I was worried about it tipping over; so for the first trial I had it in the regular doorway so it couldn't tip either way. Billy; just think of what I could do with White Sands!

Remember I've lived in both OKC and Fayetteville and so I know what the climate is like your way... It will be interesting to see what the cotton wood cotton will do with the BIG FAN working next year!

Doesn't everybody have a discarded steel rack in their shop?

I don't believe firebricks affect the burn much, (lean vs rich, oxidizing vs reducing), unless that are blocking the exhaust so that the back pressure changes the induction of air.

Before lunch I went out and wanted to test the big fan I drug home from Peavine, OK, USA. It had taken two of use a rather rough time to get it back to where it might go; unfortunately with no 220 VAC plug nearby--currently. So I dug through some stuff and unearthed some industrial casters, (lost civilization and alien base were found too; but that's normal...) Mounted the casters on 2 2"x6"x20" boards and C clamped them to the fan frame and I was easily able to move it over to the current 220 outlets. Starts up with no issues; save for being a might loud, not as loud as an old B52 SAC wing coming in for a landing at Wright Pat at 5 am; but I guess I will be wearing my hearing protectors anyway when using it. Now to put new grills on it and run 220 over to where it will sit in the roll up door opening.

Till the next twister....

I think I can guess how the idea was hatched. Doing a number of bowls, pots, and other dished forms I have noticed that they all seem to make a *great* parabolic IR emitter that for some reason tends to have a focal point where the hand is gripping the tongs holding it. John thought to turn the Martian Heat Ray around.... I adjusted a pair of tongs I picked up at Q-S, (hot); added 5 more sacks of coal to the pile in my shop and dumped the water bucket as we are expecting a good 1/4" rain today and a couple of hundredths most days the rest of the week. (Yes out here it's normal to get "expected accumulations" of rain in the .03 or .04 ranges; you see one over 1 inch and there's rush on gopher wood and bitumen!)