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on the edge tool question dose anyone have a photo of one they like i am finding that now and then i really want a crisp edge and i have not been that happy with the the one i made for myself

yeah it looks like a gas saver with a little fork to let you lift it up and now without having to take the torch off the gas saver and it has more or less a Bunsen burner in front of it

i am thinking this is the vid with the setup in it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo2FcOTzQ9M

dont worry to much no one had a name for the last one like this that was posted here with a ID request so dont end up gnawing on your horn over the witty ones

fantastick phil i hope she enjoys them

looks good Phil man i miss having photos that were a smidgen bigger than the thumbnails that can be uploaded now

i went to buy a 150+ anvil a few weeks back that took "two" people to load it into the car it turned out that i could hold in under my arm and that two people that had loaded it to start with were a older man with a bad back and a 13year old the anvil ended up being 118lb not bad and still a good deal for the price but not the be all end all anvil i had my fingers crossed for

i guess i miss understood what you were looking for and thought you did not want a slick base if thats what you want there is are fantastic products for lining dump bodies and manure spreaders its a 1/4 inch thick polyethylene liner they are very rugged but i dont know how well they would hold up to having scrap metal in the they work well for rock and manure and mulch though and you can just attach them along the front edge of the trailer so they are not that hard to swap out if needed

keep an eye out for used rubber stall mats i was lucky last year and picked up about 30 of them at a barn/house Yankee auction i think you should be able to pick one up for around 45bucks or so and they are fantastic for liners i have ones that are a inch thick and slightly pebbled texture wise this winter i drove the truck around with a 400lb slab of granite in the back of it and it did not shift at all

this came up through google and should shed a bit of light on how it works http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/oliver/oliver.html

over all i think it helps problem solve if you talk out your thought process as well its nice to know someone is listening to you but that being the case it sure is sad when you realize you are talking to yourself and you have no idea what you were just saying

i just made a stand for my new step vice and i did what i tend to do with mobile stuff is that i made it stick out enough in the front that i can stand on the base while using the vice so that this way i am countering my own twisting force this is nice for moving things around on a slab floor

i talk at the same volume but i find that the longer i have been driving a tractor say 4-6hours or so i start trying to harmonize with it and that can get kind of loud

yeah Kyboy i loved the pic he had up with that vice holding a 80lb anvil in its jaws

and that is why i like my vices ugly but functional

yup i am am in no rush i have it so i can use it and its more just wanting to treat it right in the long run i have this horrible thing with the way my mind is wired that right and left get mixed up(part of the fun world of dyslexia) so its a crap shoot for me if i am turning something tighter or loosening it .. as a result i try to be extra careful on things i care about i cant tell you how many bolts i have twisted off and some of them in odd spots on farm equipment

dose it have a pass through flap on the back? if so you could make a tail handle that would be pig ish and i like to put something like that on mine so i can flip it and open now and then

lol Thomas that was my question as well i sure hope not those things are so handy for breaking in new shews on i a side note i like the use of the RR spikes for forge feet and heck the look of the forge over all

Thankyou so much randy i can see the stop block and its much longer than i had thought i am hoping to find someone who could cut the channels into a piece of mild steel for me but i am not holding my breath as it stands now i am just going to use it as it is unfortunately what you see is what i got there was nothing ells in the garden with it if i luck into some good sized stock i will attempt to make a set to hold round bar as it is on my wish list and these jaws just don't open far enough to be able to slip another set over the top of the existing ones one quick question of you dose the bolt that the jaw pivots on come out i have managed to free both ends and clean out between the pivot points but it is still locked in there solid my plan is to just hit it with penetrating oil now and then and give it a tap or 2 as it is everything is moving freely but it would be nice to get it really cleaned out as to getting the vice in the first place its been on my wish list for 5years or so and i just got lucky and i got a good conversation out of it as well once more thanks for putting the photos up

man i wish i could post larger photos sins at the size i had to upload them you cant see the teeth i am talking about

thanks frosty in the second photo you can see the coil spring or at least part of it right inside the gap on the right hand side i have everything loose and gravity will now open it back up and the jaw swivels freely the only problem is you have to lift the leaver up with your toe so the arm can swing open the only plus side to this is that it lightly holds work for some reason you need to hop around or switch feat the vice stays closed i am now on the fence about trying to get the spring hooked back up but i would still love to find a photo or add of this thing new to see what the adjustable upsetting block or what ever it was called that ran up and down on those teeth on the inside i made a cap to go over the shelf out of part of a scraper blade that locks into the the curved wages that are there and now i have a nice little spot to true things up if i need to as i am working

i know there is a adjustable upsetting block that should fit to the teeth on the mane post but dose anyone know what it should look like and how hard would it be to make one any cutting i have to do will be done with a grinder not much tec for milling but i am game if i can just find out what one should look like so far the Internet has been less than forthcoming so any hints would be a bit help

something i picked up as a trick from a guy working with carbon fiber and i use when i am building up handles on hammers and the like is to get it to the size you want coat it with epoxy and then wrap it with electrical tape with the sticky side out you still over lap the way you normally would with tape but the stretchiness of the electrical tape lets you squeeze the epoxy into the fibers and as well once it has set up you can unwrap it and have a fairly smooth handle its nice for doing odd shapes as well and gives nice satin finish that has a nice feel in the hand if you are doing a particularly thick handle you can layer in the epoxy and just use the slow set stuff

so...umm...who did you have to kill to "inherit" that beauty

well from the flower garden to my shop i now have a wells bros step vice its a bit on the rusty side but its still all there and at 30 bucks i am a happy camper the big question i have is dose anyone know where the spring up inside the vice is supposed to attach to on i am assuming the peddle at the bottom it is currently broken but i am hoping i can get things apart and get inside to replace it