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I don't own my bottles, to me it's not worth it, they are only good for 10 years and then they can't legally be filled, plus your stuck with what ever size you bought, if I am going to be doing a lot of torching, and know it ahead of time, I'll get bigger bottles when I exchange, and they are cheap, especially when you have oxy, acet & 2 argon, at least with the place I deal with, they cut you a break the more bottles you have. We have been dealing with them since the 50's, so that helps, I have the oldest, still active, account there. welder19

Make sure you go with 4000 lb concrete and use rebar and wire under the the area the hammer will go, wire and rebar is cheap and either make it a seperate footing or cut a break around it but probably the best would be it's own footing 24" deep, poured prior to the rest of the floor and then put expansion joint around where the rest of the floor will pour up against it. Just my opinion, I havn't too much power hammer experience but I do have a bit of experience with concrete. welder19

I don't know if it has been mentioned yet or not but I didn't see it anywhere and thought it was worth a congradulations to Frosty for getting an article "Building a Simple Gas Forge Burner" published in vol 15 # 3 of the Hammer's Blow magazine from ABANA Maybe I'm a little late? but I just read it tonight and saw he won a pair of tong's for the article. So congrat's Frosty! welder19

If they are abandoned tracks and your only picking up loose scrap thats just laying around then I wouldn't think it would matter, but then again what's ok in the US is not always the same as Canada and vise versa. welder19

I think it looks good, I wouldn't call it crude, nice work. welder19

Very nice! welder19

Welcome to the forum and to the world fire and iron, there's nothing like either. welder19

Congradulations, some very nice work, something to be proud of for sure! welder19

Be safe and God bless, my prayers go out for you. welder19

Looks fine to me, if it works leave it alone. welder19

I am also currious as to where you finally got it and how much it was, I am getting ready to build a new furnace and a gas forge and need to get some materials, and with the price of this stuff you have to search for the cheapest route. welder19

Looks like it has seen better days, but neat none the less. welder19

Typically if it does not have a makers mark then it usually isn't very good, but if it is steal and not cast iron and has a decent ring then it is worth at least it's weight in scrap, $.30-$.70 depending where you are. No matter what, you need to look at the surface and edges, the surface should be fairly flat and the edges in decent shape, if the surface could hold a puddle of water and the edges look like a river bank, then it's only good for scrap, a door stop, floating dock anchor, etc. I don't have the formula for the anvil weight to lbs right on the top of my head but I am sure someone else will, but it will look like this 1 . 3 . 5 which does not mean 135lbs. welder19

Typically the real good rebar (the stuff used on bridges and such) is easily identifyed, cause it is green. welder19

That is a beutiful knife for sure!!! welder19

If you google it you will come up with some sites documenting how to do it, I would post links but there on my laptop. They are pretty cool, I plan on making one some day. welder19

My gas burner in my melting furnace has a .023" orifice and I run around 25-28 psi, but I have another one with a #57 drill bit orifice (not sure of the decimal size right off the top of my head) and I run that one around 20-22 psi. The .023 orifice I have is a mig welder tip, which can be bought in most hardware stores or Home Depot and Lowes. Trying to remember off hand, I think they have a 10-32 thread on them, so there easy to use by drilling and tapping a hole and then just threading the tip in, for those who don't have a # drill bit set. There are all kinds of variations of homemade gas burners out there, I will try and post some links tomorrow, also one to a calculator. welder19

Do yourself a favor and get a MIG, you won't regret it, go with a Hobart or Lincoln, a 140 should be in your price range but shop around, prices vary, sometimes by as much as $100 between sellers. welder19

When it comes to tools, I buy for quality, I will do with out before I buy cheap tools. If a tool costs $100 and a cheap imitation is $50 and I only have $60 then I'll be back when I have another $40. This is from experience, I make my living with tools. I would rather improvise for a little while than spend hard earned money on something that will not stand up to the demand I put on it, cause now Your out $50 and still don't have a tool to do the job, so now you say, darnit now I have to go and buy that expensive one, so in the end it cost you $150 instead of the $100 in the first place. Or you go and buy another cheap one, then you spent $100 anyway. How ever you do need to watch, the price does not always determine the quality, just most of the time. I have started buying Rigid tools, they give life time warranty on there tools, even brushes and on their cordless tools they even give lifetime warranty on the battery's, and I have no complaints yet on anything I have bought. I did have a battery that went bad, but they replaced it with no problem. And they run the same price as the others except Hilti, but I don't make my living with those types of tools and they are just too much $ if your not using it everyday. welder19

welder19 is my email address, which is the name I use for everything online, and the story behind that is; when I decided I needed my own email address, my wife set it up for me, (I knew even less than nothing about computors back then) and she decided on welder because that is what it always seemed to be what I was doing in the garage, and the 19 is just her favorite number or "lucky number" as she calls it. Jeff Hyer welder19

If done properly, chimney, co detectors, and making sure your not going to start a fire by being too close to anything flamable, including getting your floor joist too hot. I would recomend a hood over top then into the chimney from that. If it was that dangerous then there wouldn't be propane heaters and hot water heaters, dryers ovens/ranges. It just needs to be done properly. If I wanted or needed a forge in my basement I wouldn't hesitate to do it. welder19

What kind of anvil is it? welder19

I'ev used it for a while and I like it, but like HWooldridge said it does go out easily but other than that I like it, especially for the price. welder19

What is it?

Nice score! I might be interested in the drill if you don't want it. Let me know, welder19 "at" comcast.net welder19