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Awsome!
I like it a lot.
Did you make the fireplace tools also? The picture doesn't focus on them but they look like they match.

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Sears used to make high quality power tools but today they are pretty much just cheap import tools.
It is most likely the oil or the grease that is in the rollers, and just gonna have to warm up a bit before you can use it.

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Looks good to me, but then I don't know a thing about cowboy hats or hooks to keep their shape, but I do like the look of your hook, nice work!

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I have had 24 holes poked in my back and not a single one did any good, if they start talking about nerve blocks.....run, you don't want them, trust me.

I have L-3, L-4 & L-5 herniated and the only thing left for me is surgery but they don't give me very good odds on that and they don't want to do it because of my age also, the younger you are the less they like to opperate.
The best advice I can give you is see multiple Dr's don't take one Dr's opinion when it comes to surgery and other serious medical issues, I have been to 3 different pain management Dr's, 2 ortho Dr's 2 nuro surgens and 2 different chiropractors, to try different things and get 2nd or 3rd opinions.
Your spine is the worst thing to screw up, so for all you guy's who don't have any problems yet, be careful, it doesn't matter how big, strong, healthy, or young you are, it can give out just by twisting wrong, my case was too many years of thinking I was invincable, I was in the best shape of my life when mine let loose.
Bentiron, good luck, I wish you the best, I know what your going through.

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You could weld a round steal plate on the bottom, make it big enough so that your standing on it while using the vise, it is imposible to move something your standing on, it will also give you a larger footprint and being round you will still be able to roll it around, I wouldn't use anything lighter than 1/4", 1/2" wopuld probably be best.

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If your looking to cast alum. then try to get alum castings and not extruded, get stuff like water pumps and other automotive parts that are cast al.
You can look for stuff that has white powder from corrosion, stuff that is grey and not rusty.

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You will need to make sure the dia. is big enough if your planning on burning more than one at a time.
I would also recomend dampers in ea pipe so you can slow down or cut off the draft to one or the other.
I don't know if your in a place or a position to be concerned but it may not fly with the local code.

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The style quick connects I use have check valves in them so you don't have that problem, just like an air hose on an air compressor except these have it in the male and female connector, however it still is best to have as little psi on them as you can but you won't get any oil out any way.
Thanks for the warning anyhow, I do have a lot of hyd experience but that doesn't mean I don't make mistakes sometimes.

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Looks really good!
If you want/need more power you can play with pulley size, make the one on the motor bigger to get more torque, but it will affect speed also but that can be delt with also.

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Common red brick will melt but more importantly is they will spall if not dried very slowly, and will absorb moisture between uses, go to a fireplace/woodstove store and just buy firebrick to use where there will be direct heat.

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I am building a new log splitter since I gave the last one I built to my Dad when he moved, I am setting this one up so it can be used as a press as well and I am also plumbing in a set of quick connects, like tractors have for hooking up hyd. impliments, so I will be able to use it as a hyd power source for othe equipment/tools I build.
I'll post pics when done but it may not be till late winter or spring by the time I get it done.

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If your just looking for castiron pots and ladle's then you get get them from a variety of places but the best selection I have seen is at McMaster-Carr

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Oh ok, didn't want to sound like I was knockin your set up but it just was'nt sucking like I like to see, otherwise lookin good, it's always exciting to be able to build more room to spread out into.

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Are you getting enough draft?
It's always harder to tell about some things with only a picture to refrence.

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The best at anything are usually the ones who cannot really tell you when they started doing it.

Great pics!!

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Your only an addict if you think you have a problem, I would blacksmith 24/7 if I could and would not for one second think I had a problem

Remember, your only a ----aholic if you go to meetings.

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Pretty much trees in every direction, of coarse lots of pines but also plenty of oaks, maples, hickory, cherry and birch but also have some nasty patches of natures barbwire.

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I don't think that thinner nesecarily = louder, I would think it is more of an issue with pitch, the thinner it is = a higher pitch, also combiined with the reduction of high and low spots as well as the work hardend spots.
My Dad suffers from tinnitus from too many years working on and around jets for the Air Force and from what he describes it is not something I would wish on anyone and especially do not want it myself, so by all mean protect you ears and eyes, they are two things that are really a one shot deal, once you lose them their gone.

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Welcome!
Very nice shop, something to be proud of, especially since you built it bit by bit on your own.

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If you have the money then definately go with kaowool, you can double or triple or do as many layers as you have room for, in other words it depends on what you want your inner dia to be, but the more you use the more insilated it will be but 1 or 2" will be fine.
You will need a rigidizer either ITC-100 or similar or fire clay or thin refractory hard face to keep the wool in place as well as protect it.

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Do you really have to use angle?

There would be a lot of easier metals to roll into a 36" circle.

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Looks really good so far, be sure to post finished pic's.

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Very nice!
Couldn't your freind buy the whole shop building and all?
Then just restore it to original working state.

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That is what zincs in marine applications do is prevent electrolisis which is what causes corrosion.
I don't know how it would work for rust since that is more of an oxidation issue, even stuff on boats rust but they won't get eaten away from electroisis, if the zincs are properly maintained, not oxidation.

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If I was going to buy a new anvil here in the states I would go with a Nimba.

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