metalmaster1766

My name is Ron Smith, i live in Cincinnati Ohio, i just turned 40 a few short days ago, married my sweetheart /bestfriend 17 years ago, we met 23 years ago, we have 2 boys 1 grandchild, i just started blacksmithing 6 months ago, was a machinist since high school up till Oct 2000, which i miss very much, had to take an early retirement, or disability as they call it, due to health problems, i had a kidney transplant 5 years ago this Jan 2nd, going on my 2nd pancreas transplant, and if all goes well im headed back to work part time, iv done a little of welding over the years, mostly precision machining, always wanted to get into building street rods (money & time kept me from it) now i have all the time in the world to do it just no money LOL, so i make what i can with anything i can, wish i would have taken up smithing 20 years ago, the internet got me started when i came across the Backyard Metal Casting site, missed machining so much i built the Gingery lathe so i could make metal chips again, i do some foundry work to pass the time, well enough already Ron Smith

Alan B im working on a blue print for the roses, i started it a while back when i started these gifts but ran out of time, i hope to finish is here soon Don A i cut out my rose petals from copper sheet 20ga with snips or 16ga sheet metal with a plasma cutter, making them smaller as i go (ill post a pic of the petals) i make my stems from round stock 3/8" diameter making the end i put the petals on about 3/16" them peen it over to hold them on, hope that helps, i hope i can get the BP finished soon, im still waiting on a phone call for a pancreas transplant, (going on 11 months now) so i may not get it finished soon enough, heres the pic have Happy New year everyone Ron Smith

i agree with HWooldridge, informative, i think the best way to get a tolerance like that is from lapping it, iv never measured in millionths of an inch, but i have measured 50 millionths .00005 , could only have .0001 runout on an O.D. grinder, could only do it when nobody else was working in the shop vibrations from other machines made it hard to get a good reading, like to get my hands on something that accurate, always liked doing that kind of work, precision machining that is ill let the others measure stars LOL Ron

these were the gifts i made this year, Ron

here is a pic of my power hammer, i cant take credit for builing it a friend did and gave it to me, all i did was mount the motor and made a foot switch for it, i need to get a different size pulley to speed it up a bit, its about 70 BPM now, a few different type dies to would be helpful Ron

Congratulations Ron Smith

i also prayed for her too, i firmly believe in the power of prayer, it has worked for me many times, as iv had a kidney transplant 5 years ago this january, im so glad her kidney function has started again, Ron Smith

yeah after years of machining, iv found engineers over engineer everything, i proved my point a few times to then with thier unrealitic tolerances, everything looks good on paper, and can be achieved on paper, i can pour 10 gallons of water in a 5 gallon bucket on paper and not spill a drop, but lets try this in for real with water and a bucket, your gonna spill 5 gallons, id suggest opening up the tolerance, i dont know what this part is being used for (i know nothing bout lasers and dont wanna know anything) Ron

maybe you could broach it a little smaller than the finished size, then lapp it to size, gonna take a while, and its still gonna be tough to hold that kind of tolorance Ron

only way your gonna get a 1 inch square hole 10 inches deep is with a broach, parallel and true within .0002" good luck on that, you may get it within .002" if your lucky, sounds like its overkill on the engineering part, but then again i dont know what you want to use this part for, that always helps Ron

hello, im new here too, joined a while back but have never posted till now, im new to blacksmithing, just started a few months ago, just wish i would have started it about 20 yrs ago, anyway i clicked on that link several times and got nothing, then i figured out it was mispelled, but hey thanks for the link i love looking at all the useful info i can, oh yeah heres the correct link http://iforgeiron.com Click here to go IForgeIron.com 1 day maybe next year i hope to go to the quad state, its not far from me at all (where have i been hiding all these years) i was a machinist for almost 20 years love working with metal, i missed it so much i had to make my own bench lathe, there are pictures of a few things iv made on my website (unorganized) thanks for this forum i hope to learn a lot about forging Ron Smith Edit: hot link posted