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I really like the second one, it looks handy. The perfect shape and size for most of the things I actually use a knife for outside the kitchen. How long are these?
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I managed to pick up a few nice items from the roadside during a bulk waste pickup.
1. Outdoor gas heater, quite good quality. All that's wrong with it is the piezo ignition is broken. Truly a horribly wasteful device, but lots of nice thin steel plate, copper gas tubing and a large piece of thin-wall stainless tube. Also a huge aluminium dish.
2. Good quality Australian made gas barbeque, with a roasting hood. The plate is missing and the piezo ignition is broken. I have no use for it but it will make a nice workbench.
3. Singer sewing machine, mostly cast iron, made in Great Britain. Sews well but stinks like burnt electrics. An excellent find but may need work.
I also found a short section of heavy galvanised fencing and a few lengths of 3/4" water pipe.
A mechanic friend also gave me this brake drum and flywheel a couple of days ago. I think my junk eye is becoming nicely tuned. -
Thanks very much for all the responses. I'm well aware of the problems of mechanical damage to wheels having seen people do stupid things. I will most certainly test run the wheels extensively before I use them and wear appropriate PPE. I would not bother with this old stuff except that these wheels were in a stack of old and worn ones but appear completely unused. I'll post some pictures to the forum when I get the new machine set up.
Thanks again for the help. The amount of knowledge and advice that comes from web forums like this never ceases to amaze me. -
I've just aquired some old grinding wheels I want to put into service. I'm wondering if grinding wheels have ever contained asbestos or anything else particularly nasty. Any ideas?
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Thanks very much for all the compliments, I really didn't expect that. I forged it as close to shape as I could get it. The filing and abrading work was mostly to refine the finish and make the bevels more uniform. I annealed the blank in ashes, forged the shape, annealed again and then did the filing and polishing. I then heated the blade portion to above non-mgnetic temperature then quenched in oil. Inexperience gave me problems keeping temper colours even, but the edge was drawn to light straw with a purple spine. It took me a couple of tries to get the handle riveting sorted out.
It weighs 166g/5.85oz and balances about on the first rivet, if that's any indication as to feel in the hand.
The stump is probably a piece of Blackbutt, Eucalyptus Pilularis. I think there's something wrong with the colours in that photo.
All in all, I was pretty surprised at how well it turned out. I'll most likely try making another knife pretty soon.
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Thanks, I'll get on to them and see what they get up to.
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Hello all,
I'm just getting into blacksmithing and am at the stage where I would benefit from being able to find some others interested in the craft in my area. Does anyone know of any groups in NSW? I ask here only because this is the only Australian group I have found online.
Thanks,
Leon.
A retort kiln
in Solid Fuels: Coal, Coke, Charcoal, Wood, etc
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Here are a few photos of my setup. It's more efficient than just a drum with holes in it, but still takes a lot of fuel to char a full load of Blackbutt and Casuarina.The square tubing under the drum has holes for the volatile gases driven off the load of wood to pass out and burn.
I think next time I do a batch I'll make a bit of an enclosure from bricks to insulate the whole thing a bit.