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blubrick

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  1. Wait, wait, wait! You advised him not to go to a blacksmith for dental work after hitting his tooth with a hammer and punch?
  2. blubrick

    Rebar Rose

    A russian rose from 16mm rebar (that's about 5/8" for those of you that don't speak metric) Just in time for Valentine's day.
  3. CLW, from what you've given us, it's clear that you want a propane fueled heat source, but exactly what you need depends highly on what you intend to do with it. Are you intending to heat metal so that it's soft and you can smack the tar out of it until it conforms to the shape you want? If so, you need a forge, and you don't need a crucible. Or are you intending to melt metal and cast it into molds? 'cause in that case, you're talkin' about a foundry and/or a furnace and you will need a crucible. But most importantly, that "xxxx filler" you talked about? Read it - You'll find it's actually not "xxxx" or filler. It often contains definitions of terminology, explanations of procedures, and safety recommendations. The first two will allow you to ask your questions in a way that's likely to get you the answer you need, rather than requests for clarification. The other one will help you to remain alive and intact long enough to ask your question - particularly if you plan on building a gas-fueled forge/furnace thingy.
  4. Federal elections (or the lesser of two weevils)!
  5. You're using metric measurements and quoting prices in dollars, you sound kind of Australian! Additionally, that description and those measurements seem remarkably familiar, so it seems you may be referring to a certain 40Kg anvil I have seen on eBay for pickup in Ballarat. I know nothing about this anvil except that this is at least the third time recently that it has listed for the same starting and "buy it now" prices - each time with no bidders. Now, I'm no expert, but based on the two photos, it looks like a decent anvil. It certainly has crisp corners and a very clean machined face, but at 40 Kg (88 Lb) it certainly is a small one. Be aware though, that for whatever reason, it has failed to sell at that price at least twice before. Caveat emptor, young C Teen! Actually, I didn't originally provide a link to the auction, but I have since done so.
  6. What a wonderfully poetic way of phrasing it - much better than "Information Overload"!
  7. That's a good lookin' hammer you've got there, Larry. Is there any function in the channels behind the face, or is that a purely decorative feature?
  8. SJB, We made one out of 10mm(3/8") square mild at a smithing course I did and it rings just beautifully. Come to think of it, most "real" bells seem to be made of bronze or brass, which are both pretty soft. I think you'd be better off saving the high carbon stuff for projects that require an edge.
  9. I'll leave the "toti" puzzle for someone else because I already know it. But I'll admit that the first time I came across it, it had me stumped for a few days before I finally relented and googled the answer. But back to our friends the penny pincher and the blacksmith. The old miser comes in to the smithy again, this time with a piece of silver chain seven links long. He says "I've got a feller doing a week's work for me and I have to pay him one link of this chain every day. If I don't give him a link at the end of each day, he won't work the next day. If I give him more than I owe him, he'll abscond with more links than he has earned." "Now, I know you got the better of me on that last chain deal, so I'm giving you exactly what you need to cut up this chain so I can pay him daily. I know you don't need to cut every link, so here's $1.50" So the blacksmith smiled, knowing that once again he had got the better end of the deal. He did the cutting and handed the links back to the old scrooge saying "This is exactly what you need to pay him one link every day." What did the blacksmith cut and how did that solve the problem?
  10. Our friend the blacksmith charges the penny pincher $13.00 "Huh? $13.00!" I hear you ask. "How do you figure it's $13.00?" Well, to avoid going to hell, he quite rightly charges $0.50 for each cut, the same for each weld and $10.00 for knowing which links to cut.
  11. People called Romanes, they go the 'ouse?
  12. Irnsrgn, your computer's name is Fred? Does that by any chance stand for Flamin' Ridiculous Electronic Device? :)
  13. OK Ice Czar, Here's a fifth option for ya... 0. I subscribe to alt.sysadmin.recovery and still read it with /bin/rn ==== OK, so I'm not quite at 0, but here's my confession of geekdom regardless. I have been shuffling bits and bytes since 1991, in varying capacities, on IBM's MVS, VM and DOS/VSE, Unisys 2200 and A-Series, HP 1000's and 3000's, various distributions of Linux and BSD, MSDOS, PCDOS and DRDOS, OS/2, just about every version of windows there has been, and for nearly ten years up until 18 months ago, I was a Unix Sysadmin on Solaris and HP-UX. I know which manpage in Solaris has the hidden joke. I never got one of these t-shirts, but I wish i did. I understand that sentiment - at depth! I have a 4 digit slashdot userid. I know which program in the Solaris codebase is copyright Microsoft, and why. But no more! I had an opportunity to escape that geekish underworld and I latched onto it. So I'm here now to say: "Hi everyone, my name's Matt and I'm a recovering Geek." (Crowd responds with: "Hi Matt!")
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