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yes, I would like to see a picture too for reference. whats a good belt length? I think mines a 24 or a 36.. and they seem to wear out fairly quickly depending on what I'm grinding.

yeah, thats true.. I have some alum round that is (roughly) 2in in length, and about 5in diameter so if I cant find anything I'll just use that to make some wheels.. I've really got limited facilities though because I am using the highschool machine shop and don't have any classes right now in there.. lol. I'm supposed to be making waterpollo goals for the swim team.. (whoops)

I would probably use direct drive and purchase the wheels.. I'm sure there are some salvageable from somewhere..

2 lol.. If I had more time and less hobbies I would be 1..

lol.. ^great reply I was going to say something to that effect..

were they metal still? lol.. that sounds like a cool idea, I was thinking about the wheels you can buy at a hardware store.. maybe doubling up two of them, and milling a contact wheel out of alum on the lathe. should the contact wheels have a rubbercoating? just curious..

ya no kidding.. if I had 400$ I would. this is more of a temporary thing until I can either make or buy a decent one. enjoying your kmg?

I've got a 1in x 24 or something like that delta belt/face wheel grinder and am getting tired of burning up wheels with less than satisfactory results.. (really hard to set bevels) and anyway, I was wondering if I could swap out the wheels and axels with something salvaged and make it a 2in grinder.. Its strong enough to where I cannot stop it easily pressing something on the belt.. (the belt slides first) and it looks possible.. anyone forsee problems? and where can I get 2in wheels? I might just turn a few on the lathe.. -Thanks

cool, you've got some juevos to work with wenge.. one of the hardest materials to deal with I think.. very hard, and super porus.

where does a person find woolly mammoth? and whats it feel like to work with? I'm sure its not cheap.. but just wondering. beautiful knife as always!

WOW what a fine blade, I absolutely love the handle and woods. beautiful!

ha, what are you planning Hwooldridge?

cute! give it a wild hamon ;)

cool, you've got a lot of control. do you finish alot of your work? you've seem to got the same problem as me.. I never get any blades done to the point of I would be proud to post some images of it. lookin good, i'm kinda curious can you get a hamon on 5160? I've heard you cant but I've seen it done.. -Kenon

I dont want this to end up in an eco debate.. but I dont see how coal has less an impact than charcoal.. it has to be escavated (deforestation) burnt (major sulfur and co/other toxins) plus its non renewable.. but ya, charcoal is has its flaw's.. I personally am working on an oil furnace right now, because of this. the whole things like trying to find the lesser of two evils.. its all evil but whatever.. I like the line about gore's jet hadn't thought about that.

yeah, I've met quite a few. the guy I went to' had his shop in a tiny garage behind his house.. crowded in the best possible way. anyway, nice meeting you.

wow regional your in eugene? thats really close you wouldn't happen to sell knife supplies would you, because I may have visited your shop!

a gas forge run rich will form little to no scale.. mine produces less than my coke forge..

really, coke has very few advantages over gas.. so it really becomes a bit of personal preference, and the point has been argued for a while and by many. anyway, with coke, its more traditional and you can get spot heating, and welding is fairly easy..(not coal.. coke) and gas you can heat up alot of metal, no-low maitenance, easy, can weld, ect... oh, and both fuels cost alot and polute more carbon than was put into them, or something like that.. charcoal on the other hand has a neutral or positive carbon emmision (which is good) if your eco minded, but more fuel is consumed, and its harder to get a hot hot heat compared to coke.

heh, congratulations! its a good feeling.

heh mark, where abouts in oregon are you from? I'm near corvallis

I meant melt the furnace, I'll be smelting the ore. I was trying really hard to distinguish that throughout the rest of the thread but you caught me..

cool, good luck on your experiments It may be a while before I get to mess with mine, so I think I'll further my research in the meantime. thanks again for the help. veggie should be fun, and I just scored about 1,000+ soft fire brick so I think I can afford to melt a furnace or two in testing.

Spring fuller's.. make life alot easier, especially without help.

I've been wondering this too, and I think it's possible but difficult.. like making steel I guess.. from what I understand (which is very little) all you would have to do would dramatically decrease the carbon content, and somehow "wrought" it with a flux? I think you would end up with a mild steel though.. erm, I guess that wasn't helpful lol.. but you would definately need a high temp refractory setup, which is hard in a simple shop.. but do-able.