SLOB

I used to work with a guy that specialised in microwelding. its absolutly amazing to see someone weld under a microscope. even more amazing is when its a 500lb mold thats preheated to about 600 degrees. He later went off and started his own shop. some of his work can be seen here (New England Tool & Microweld

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.

its not a question of where he grasps it, its a question of weight ratio's! A FIVE OUNCE BIRD CAN NOT CARRY A ONE POUND COCONUT! (we now return you to your previously scheduled program)

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

McMaster-Carr has one listed on page 3272 bottom of the page.(no easy way to link to it) there is a pilot light thats always on. when you hang the torch up the supply to the torch is cut off. lift the torch its turned on at the same settings you had previously. the cord is probably weighted and when he hits a pedal with his foot it lifts the handle turning it back on.

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