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DSW

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  1. This door deserves two posts for picts...
  2. The door at the end of the nave is unbelievable. I could spend days looking at the detail work on this door alone. Again all of this is forged, even the letters at the top. None of it is cast.
  3. Doors with rings and animals for handles....
  4. Doors need locks, and locks need keys... All the lock work is again all hand forged on site, including the keys. Each key is unique and forged from monel.
  5. Lets start off with doors and door hardware. There are roughly 140 doors in the cathedral. All have a unique hinge/ hardware set up right down to the hand forged nuts and bolts used on the door. Sorry if the pict quality on all these picts isn't the greatest, They don't allow flash picts, so all these were shot hand held at ISO 1600 with my little camera since the Nikon won't let me choose the ISO to shoot at. First on the door list will be hinges.... Lets look at the details where they meet the stone work to start out.
  6. Ok I thought I'd post some picts of the metal work in the cathedral. The metal work here spans a fairly long time period and you can see the development of the unique style that developed here in Bryn Athyn as they built the cathedral culminating in the work in Glencairn near by that I may post picts of later. Most of the metal work here was designed by Parke Edwards who worked at one time with Yellin. From what I understand some think Edwards work here is in some ways better than the typical Yellin iron work that is seen everywhere. If you are ever in the Philly area and you love metal work, you owe it to yourself to come look at some of this. A good portion of what I'm posting isn't open to the public, but there is still metal work to see almost everywhere you look here. I tried to narrow down the picts, but I still have over 100 showing just part of the detailed forged metal work in the cathedral. I'll try to keep it to 5 to 10 picts on each major area. None of it is cast, the vast majority is all forged Monel, but there are some brass or bronze accents and some exterior door surfaces that are treated in bronze. I think I'll start off with some overall picts of the cathedral....
  7. DSW

    Post vise rebuild

    Thanks guys. I appreciate the replies. Doug.
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    Post vise rebuild

    Hello, A while back I was given an old post vise by a friend. It was in bad shape from sitting outside burried in leaves for years. It took me quite a while to tear it all down and free it up. I'm looking to reassemble it now. When I took it apart there looked to be the remains of some old leather wrapped around the screw where it goes into the fixed jaw. On a friend of mines it looks like his has what appears to be lead sheeting wrapped around that section. I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction as to what to use so I can reassemble this vise and put it to work. I've circled the area on his vise in red to help clarify what I'm referring to. Also the vise lacks it's spring. Any suggestions as to what to use to fabricate a replacement? Thanks, Doug.
  9. I haven't seen CCA treated lumber in almost 10 years. All the new stuff is ACQ treated (Alkaline Copper Quaternary). Note that new ACQ treated lumber requires special fasteners. "Normal" fasteners will quickly rust from contact with ACQ treated wood. Also note that steel and alum in contact with ACQ treated lumber will also rot, especially alum. You might want to take a quick look at this link with some info on ACQ lumber even if it is a bit dated... http://www.loghomebuilders.org/the-corrosive-problem-acq-treated-lumber
  10. Abrasive blades for 12" or 14" gas saws have a higher rpm rating than those for chop saws and tend to take more abuse before grenading. I won't buy anything but the ones for the gas saws personally. I've had several bad experiences at work where the guys don't bother to pay attention to what abrasive blades they grab at the shop or at the store. Load a low RPM chop saw blade in a gas saw and spin it up full speed and it will grenade in seconds. Usually you get maybe 10-15 seconds as the blade gets all wobbly and starts to look like it's made of wet spegetti before it disintegrates if you don't kill the throttle.
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