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Posts posted by jay_cat
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I'm a VW enthusiast. Last year I pulled into a driveway to ask a guy about his old bug and he definately gave me the "WTF are you doing here" attitude until I was able to strike common ground. Now we say hi every time we bump into each other and I am welcome over his place anytime. He is a nice guy. Some people have huge walls up if you don't break the ice properly. I would try again. Just have a better plan of buttering them up a bit.
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That would work well. Thanks.
I don't see how that will effect me from knocking it over. I was more concerned with any functionality issues. I will be supporting the rotor on block and it will have the same chance of getting knocked over either way. I don't plan on it. I'm more concerned with grabbing a hot piece of steel with my bare hand. -
I have all the parts to assemble my brake rotor forge. My only issue is I don't want to drill hole to bolt on my pipe flange. Can I just use gravity to hold it in place by just setting the flange on top of the opening?
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I had to look up a bridge anvil. I would have thought having an opening on the bottom would have a negative effect. I would make it a lot easier to secure to a block of would. I'll give it a try. I just picked up a portable air tank and hope build my propane forge this weekend.
Fluidsteel, I will use new stock once I get done messing around with the files and spikes I picked up. I want to get my feet wet before I spend to much loot. I have a tendency to jump into things full force then lose interest once I do it. Although, I used to find it soothing to grind metal while was in charge of the tool room in the Army. Everything had a sharp edge. All my shovels, drill bits, and even the dust pans. I could acually cut rope with the dust pans. If any of you have a metal dust pan, sharpen the edge. You won't have a spec of dirt pass under it when you sweep up a pile. It works mint.
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Its nice to hear I'm off to a good start. Thanks for the positive feed back.
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After extensive reading of the forums, the one thing that most people have suggested is to just get something to pound on. So this is 100 pounds of steel I paid $25 for at a local steel shop. I'm planing on laying it on its side and grinding the thin piece on the upper right of the picture into a horn shape. I am building a propane forge this week from a old portable air tank. My goal is to attempt knife making for as little money as possible. In the mean time I'm keeping my eye's open for a real anvil. I picked up a half dozen rail road spikes, a few hammers, and a dozen large files for $15 at a flea market yesterday.
So what do you guys think? Am I off to a good start or am I nuts?
brake rotor forge construction question
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Here is the forge I put together using today. The guy down the street had a old file cabinet. So I used that to hold the rotor. My blower is a old heat gun that also blows cold air. It also has adjustable airflow using the fins on the side of it. Everything looked great. It didn't work great. I couldn't get my coal to light. I then added a plate to the bottom of the rotor will holes drilled in it to spread the air around better and I still didn't get the coals to light. My guess is that the rotor is to shallow and I need to use a deeper one.
Here are the picks of my first attempt at a forge.