SLOB

A friend that worked in my brother's shop for a while is one of the top micro welders in the country, he specializes in repairing plastic injection molds by welding and machining what are sometimes multi-million dollar molds. He regularly tig welds under a 200 power microscope. I have watched him weld pop cans together and lay a bead along the edge of a razor blade. I have watched him heat treat(aneal) a 3000 lb mold made of h13 to prepare it for welding ,do a small weld, machine and re-heat treat. The weld took less than 15min to do, machining another 2 hrs with set up. But to heat treat the mold took a week bring it up to temp and cooling so the tool did not warp. For a guy like me who can barely stick two pieces of 1/4 inch stock together with the buz box it was a humbling experience.

J. does that flypress have any markings on it? speidel perhaps? they had a bunch of them when I worked there in the late 90's before shipping the machinery to china.

one mainenance worker loved to paint and he would go around painting all the machinery (including painting oiling cups over till they were unidentifiable blobs growing out of presses). another side note.....I never saw it but I heard stories from the other toolmakers that they used to have a HUGE flypress with a round flywheel on top. supposedly it was big enough that 6-8 guys would spin it and hang on spinning like kids at a playground.

is the tooling hole 13/16" or 15/16" or something standard? mine was 13/16 and I pulled the ram out and had it opened to 1" at a local machine shop. he quoted me 20 bucks to do it, but after having it well over a month without getting it done he called recently to tell me its finished.....and free. I wanted 1" so I could use punches I get from my current job. its all 1" and 3/4" shank. I bought reducer bushings so I can use both in the 1" hole.

I wear my wedding band "almost" every day. I wear it tied on a leather cord around my neck, long enough to stay tucked inside my shirt at all times.

I do have to remove it sometimes at work when I am in packaging, an induction heater will do a number on any metal jewelry nearby (or so I've been told) I dont want to be the one testing out how close it really has to be.

at a previous job we had an induction heater for shrink fit tooling collets. while messing around we almost melted a Browne and Sharpe scale in about one second. it turned red and bent like well done pasta. imagine it was a ring on a finger.......that would be some serious burns.

Rob

I had a post vise and anvil follow me home this weekend. the anvil is really beat up but still has some use left in it (in my oppinion anyways)

I'm not sure if its wishful thinking or not but I think it says armitage on the anvil. I'm also pretty sure the numbers on it are 0 3 11. which should be 95 lbs right? it feels like about that weight wise (after removing it from the stump) the height on the stump was about knee to lower thigh.....much too low for me.



the vise has all the hardware with it and the jaws are in good shape. the only problem is that the legs are bent in from over tightening it. I hope to bend them back sometime after the hollidays. any suggestions? heat or no?

I learned that even though I love my dad.....I dont trust him with a muzzleloader.

he has a bad habit of not unloading a muzzleloader after an unsuccessful day of deer hunting.......who knows how long it sat loaded, but it was long enough for him to forget and load it again!

I had an idea of what he had done so I unloaded it with a cap, fired from the hip. it was a bad idea that could have been worse. the nipple and hammer shot off (at an extreme velocity) and missed my face by fractions of an inch. my ears rang for weeks and the flames left slight burns on my cheek after removing key portions of my beard.

I still get a sick feeling everytime I hear he's going out with a muzzle loader. (its a different one.....mine that he was using that day ended up in SEVERAL smaller pieces after that incident) I'm waiting for him to do it again and get worse results out in the woods all alone.

African or European?

I just bought the one on the left......Glen just posted the picture in the disscusion in the "show me your vise" thread...... since he already had the pic up (and the gallery isnt working for me) I just snagged his picture.

I think he means sighting through the open headstock to see the tailstock/center moving.

the only thing I've found is round shaft in 1045

Yarde Metals Online Catalog 1045GP -RD Page


thier "drop zone" changes quite often and some might show up. I've bought from them a couple times and had no problems with thier online orders

I'll be there too. I can't wait till friday!!!!!

Slob has been my nickname since sometime in highschool. it was given to me by my best friend (aka Maggot) and it just sorta stuck. alot of people refused to call me it feeling it was offensive or a slam at me.....but I dont take it that way. there are still alot of people I met that only know me as Slob and not my real name.

Rob

a whole bunch of punches followed me home from work. S-1 tool steel punches. they are shock resistant! we had a meeting at work last night about someone not assembling a press correctly before starting it up. they passed around a punch that had come out while running. it was a 3/4" shank bent about 30 degrees.....but it didnt shatter.


my computer didn't want to upload all the pictures.....I had a picture of one of the 8 drums of punches that followed me home. I wish I had taken a picture of them all loaded in my truck on 2 wooden skids. My toyota pickup was on its bumpstops.....luckily it was only about a mile to my house to unload 3 drums, the rest went to my storage unit. I still had trouble driving the truck that loaded down over the WV mountains.

Rob/SLOB