Daniel.85

Here are a few videos of it running on 220 and also it now has a power factor of .99 making it super efficient and even more powerful! 15kva and 15kw are not always the same this one is running at a true 15kw do to the power factor control, it also eliminates the need for the big blue tank capacitor which will make it a very small 15kw unit. One thing that will make this great for anyone to use is this same machine can be hooked to 120 or 220 and it automatically adjusts itself, at 120 its 5kw and at 220 its 15kw, if we had access to 3phase we could run it at 30kw. This unit is nearly done, the boards are about to be made so that the messy looking breadboard setup will be done away with, then it will be tested heavily to work out any final kinks and we will try to build a few more. Check the description in the videos to see when the machine is turned on.

Sounds like you are talking about the shop presses, those are very different than a forging press.

Good trade!

Awesome! great work, I like the finish of it all. One itsy critique from me would be that the brass end cap looks much "cleaner" than the rest(could just be the pictures) I like the roughness of the rest of it, that being said, you did better than I could so don't take my suggestion to strongly.

Great video, I love how even AC ducts were hand crafted and looked good!

I will put some hammering videos up soon, just got done building a new shop, moving tools in now. Those videos were of it running off 120, hooked up to 240 is insane! so fast

3/8x1" bar

Got some new pictures and videos of the Induction heater, its coming along great! Running on 120v 140amp breaker, about 5kw, no more mosfets, better water block.

I wonder what company he uses to cast his anvils.

You can skip through the pictures on this link to see the rings, looks like the rings you can find being rolled on youtube videos, Im guessing they had some type forge to heat them up with no actual forging done on site, it is funny to hear non metal people talk about this stuff, I didn't watch it though. http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/27/worldsport/gallery/olympic-opening-ceremony/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

nice steam hammer video, hadn't seen this one before

That is an awesome work/vise table, very jealous of the nicely cut 2" plate.

My gas forge puts off a lot of heat, I get pretty sweaty out there. Im using a chili forge 2 burner, but usually just run 1 of them.

That is so much better than my first "anvil" was(RR track), you got a great deal and that will last you forever. Even if you get a nice new anvil in the future, that thing will sill have a use for some things that you wouldn't want to risk doing on a cleaner anvil.

Few new pics with some of the reworked components, no more big heat sink.

so cool!

Very cool, share more stuff like this if you get a chance!

Yep just pumping tap water through it, will either have a hookup to the water source or have a pump and just have a water bucket like we've been using, works fine. Not worried about calcium buildup, it would take forever for that to happen and just running some vinegar or CLR through it would clear it out. No fan on the heatsink, those are the mosfets on there and they stay cold on that thing.

Quick video - Running just under 1kw, Heating 1/4 inch round, heats up the larger stuff nicely too, videos of that later. 3kw is going to be great! http://s1059.photobucket.com/albums/t440/ArgyllHammer/Induction/?action=view&current=video-2012-07-15-12-30-52.mp4

Nice carpentry skills but this is a blacksmith forum...jk, thats going to look awesome!

Looks great, Ive always like your stuff sam, not bad for the gocartking! You should make another into a claw hammer.

Assembling, still waiting on new mosfets.... and a few other tweaks after the next test. Funny how sparse the unit looks in that case.. puts out a lot of power still.

Think about everyone that uses hand cranked blowers or bellows, all through history, the air supply is only coming in when you operated it. This burns less fuel and as long as you don't take to long to get back to the fire it doesn't take long to get back up to heat.

Just found your paper on the Replication of Wootz! reading now, maybe it will answer that.