rlarkin

I use 3/8 square. Forge out the handel end first. Draw out a point about 3" long. fold back about 5" including tip. I will give it 2 shots at forge welding, and if that fails, I will Weld about 1 1/2" of the fold. I will give it a good orange heat before the weld, and you will be surprized at how much penetration you get. Then I draw out the welded section to make the main point, and with carefull peening, you can get the weld to all but dissapear. The bring out the hook and put a little S in it. Finished 2 yesturday for last minute xmas gifts for my neighbor.

Tension gauge. It is used to check the tension on steel strapping on large loads. A lot of commercial and maritime shippers use them to make certain the banding that that is holding a load together is not strapped beyond it's tensil strength, or that that the clips are not beyond their holding range. I have also seem something similar used in the lumber industry to check the tension on re-saw (band saw) blades.

Did you do the dance? It is required that you dance to the "GODADAHEATA".

Better yet! I manage a lumber yard as my real job. I have been in my office and heard people come up to the sales counter and ask. "where are the BBQ tools?" My sales people direct them to my office, where I keep a couple sets hanging on the wall. I have had people come in and buy a set, then come back and get more for gifts. One person has so far bought a single flipper, a 2 piece set, flipper and fork, and 3 3 piece sets, flipper, fork, and spatula.

In a nose dive with full left rudder.

If your 3" diameter is the inside of the ring, add the stock size to the diameter. 3" + 3/8" = 3 3/8" If the 3" is the outside measurement, substract the stock size. 3" - 3/8" = 2 5/8" Formula still applies.

This might be of interest. sucker rod -pipe

I think the problem you would face is that to generate heat, it needs to burn hot. To make charcoal, it needs to smolder cold. You would light it, get it hot, then choke it down to smolder and loose the heat, and the ability to get heat until you empty out the charcoal you made, which could take a day to truely work properly. You might get a little heat from the smolder if you looped in a large diameter pipe and pumped air through it like a heat exchanger. But during the times you used it for heat, you could possibly burn up your exchanger.

I don't even put it on the business end. I clamp them upright in my leg vise, run the colors, brush on the oil, then wipe off the excess. None is put on the fork or hook. I have prolly sold about 50 of these thing and have not lost a customer yet.

Scratch, heavy on the leaves, lightly on the rest. Frosty, When I hand people a tool, the first thing they do is stick their hand TROUGH the loop. Then I tell them to wrap their hand around the whole thing and they say, "That's better." Never tried to flatten em a little, I always round em out to take off the sharp edges. I guess I will have to try that.

Same here. I make them to grip the entire handle. These are out of 1/4 square bar, and if you grip it as though it were a gaurd, the tool twists. I do have one handle design for folks with large hands that has a finger loop.

Finished this set on Sunday. The guy bought 3 sets of matching BBQ tools for x-mas gifts, and finished the third set yesturday. The leafs that I normally do on the handles are kinda like a willow leaf. About 1/2 inch wide, and 3 inches long. Made these shorter, about 1 3/4 inch long and about 1 inch wide. they thinned out real good. The edges are about 1/32 thick. I run some collors with a torch, hit it with a brass brush, and apply linseed while still hot.

You have not installed a switch, you have installed a breaker buster. The 2 hots, black, are on the same screw, hot wire it on all the time. When you turn the switch on, you are sending the hot, black, to the nuetral, white, and shorting the line which blows the breaker. Remove it and start over. You should be using a DPDT, Double pole, Double throw switch. If you insist on using the switch you have, wire nut the two whites together, and place the black on the input side on one screw, and black on the drill side to the other screw. This is not a 220 volt machine, correct?

Is this going to be a solid fuel, ie: coal, or gas fired. If it is for coal, how do you plan to tend the fire?

Can you post a pic of your setup. There is no reason a SPST household switch can't work, unless you have a SPDT and have it wired wrong.

Just did some inet research on it and found out what I needed to know. I don't have gas to my place, so that is out.

Looks intriguing. Gonna go check it out. Forge

YOUR LUCKY DAY. I manage a lumber yard. There is a product made by Valhalla Wood Preservatives called LifeTime. It does exactly what you want. Go to Lifetime Wood Treatment - Eco-Friendly, Non-Toxic Wood Treatment that lasts a LIFETIME!. I have have played with it here at the yard and it works.

Some form of singletree maybe. For hanging small game?

It's called The Horseshoe Barn. The Horseshoe Barn They are really cool people. Went up 3 weeks ago. When I walked in the door Renate asked what I needed. Told her "5 bags of coal". Went in the warehouse to look at their hammers. Had a sweet 1 1/2 lb Nordic rounding for $32, but I didn't bring enough cash. When I walked back to the counter, Renate said, (your trucks already loaded). I have sent my daughters up when I can't get there, in my wifes Expedition. They stick the bags in large trash bags so the Expedition stays clean, and load it.

I am in Cali, but about 600 miles north. One bad problem in California is finding coal. I drive to Sacramento to get mine. About 120 miles round trip. It is good stuff though. Elkhorn, in 50 lb bags for $28.

The fastest way to ruin a good anvil is to try and fix it.