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I hope someone gave it to you.

Man, that thing is all headstock, only short stuff can be machined on that thing. scrap er out and buy an import tool room lathe.

Here is the change gear chart for a 10 inch SB out of the old SB lathe book I have. Click on the picture several time to get the large view and copy and print from that.

Also SB books "How to run a lathe" come up on Ebray quite often, and usually have charts and exploded parts views in them

You fellas do know that there are several web groups dedicated to SB lathes, and SB is making lathes again and you can find out when ur lathe was made and who bought it when, as well as get parts for SB machinery.

I swapped the motor pulley for a V pulley on my South Bend, and use a V belt on the flat drive pulley, its been running with the same belt since the mid 60.s. Also a neighboring shop across the alley, uses one of those cogged timing belts upside down on the cone pulleys, you have to remove the headstock to install it tho.

All cards are appreciated to show how many friends her family has, I just thought quite a few from other countries would be exciting for her and her class, and her real mother is upset because we/me has friends all over the world, both blacksmithing and woodworking, that are willing to do this for a little girl they don't even know.

Just trying to be a good grandpa.

Thank You.

lots of knee mail sent.

Ten Hammers is the only one I know of that uses a Kerrihard. Little Giant at Nebraska City, Nebraska, carries replacement springs.

Little Giant Power Hammer

Unicornforge, this is a picture of a Kerrihard in Sid's hammer pile outside his shop.

Your help would be appreciated, to help out my almost step grandaughter. Especially those of you from countries other than the United States.

Hi
You have received this letter because of your acquaintance with the family of the student listed below. Our class is collecting postcards. We would love to have one from you to add to our collection. Every time we get a postcard, we will read the postmark and label that town on our class map. Then we will read the postcard to find who has sent it. If the postcard shows a picture of the place it came from or has information about that town or state, we'll have even more reasons to examine it. We hope you will send us a postcard to add to our collection!!!

Have a Good Day!!!
Sincerely

Please address you postcard to:
Lily Manley
Nashua Elementary School
Attn: Mrs. Fowler's Class
221 NE 114th St
Kansas City, MO 64155

Thank You in Advance.

Respectfully
Jr. Strasil

gonna have to get one of those extra extra wide wheelchairs to wheel him to front door at discharge.No fun having to be pried out of a normal wheel chair , don't ask how I know.

don't know if your interested or not, but this is an artillary forge, mounted on a gun carriage.

Sure, go ahead.

This is a picture of a Military Portable Forge, from a 40's military welding manual I have. 3 June 1943

You could build something like this.

when I estimate jobs, I used a steel suppliers weight book, that's how the supplier figures the weigh of the material you buy, and I usually never actually weighed material when I sold it to walk in customers. just use the theoretical weight that is in 40.8/144the books that I had copied to an easy to read chart under the plastic of my desk. but if you remember a few simple things you can figure the weight of anything with a cheap calculator. a square foot of 1/8th or 11 ga is 5.1, 3/16 or 7 ga is 7.5, 1/4 or 4 ga is 10.2 lbs. just figure the square feet, length times width divided by 144 times the weight of that particular thickness of steel, so 1 inch would be 40.8 divided by 144= .2833333333333lbs. times 16, the ounces in a lb, =4.5333 ounces.

Thank You, jkmas, I can't remember things as well as I used to, I had to make several sets years ago for the old stone mason, or as they used to call them "White Masons" to position some rather large stones that had taken a trip to the ground after a rather nasty storm.

I read an old technical manual on white masonry once and the most interesting things in it, was that Chelshire Cheese (sp) was one of the main ingredients in the glue they used to cement stones together for special purposes.

Thomas, maybe you can recall the name for the pin with a ring in the end the stone masons used to insert in the angled drilled holes in stone to lift them in place.

Porter bars, that is the old name I was trying to remember, Thanks

Pick up tongs are sometimes referred to as floor tongs as the are used to pick up dropped pieces, they usually have a double curve to the jaws.

The square tapered holes in the waist of an anvil are for special handling bars so the anvil can be manipulated under a forging hammer. the name of the bar escapes my old brain at the moment.

And one more, on the Happy Hooker.

You say you can weld, make one.

This is mine, made from some 12 ga SS that I had left over from a fab job. All the sides are tapered, the bottom is a slight V so when if freezes in the winter it will not swell but the ice pushes up and also if you drop something in it, it automatically goes to the center, it has 1"+ lips bent past 90 at the top so when you quench a plow lay the boiling water will be directed back into the tub and they also make the sides stiff, it has 2 roller skate wheels on the far end on the bottom so it can me moved to dump it and it also has a drain plug at the very bottom on the near end. and It will NEVER RUST out.