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Ha ha ... you are too funny
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5 hours ago, SLAG said:
Marc1,
With favorable conditions E. coli bacteria double every twenty minutes.
You make several assertions. Please supply scientific references for those claims. I will be happy to read them.
SLAG.
Now you are clutching at straws
Milk comes in a refrigerated truck and in crates or boxes with a minimum of 15 Kg of milk at 5 C in each crate.
Milk specific heat capacity is 3.8 J/g/C for full cream milk. You will need to apply 57 Kj to the milk crate to take the milk to 6 C, not counting the resistance heat encounters to travel through packaging and crate. 350 KJ to elevate the temperature to something meaningful like 12C. Doable with a large garden blower and a heat source blowing for some 20 minutes perhaps.
The milk is in plastic bottles and the crates are piled up all together and that makes the mass even larger. The idea that a trip from the truck to the shop and a wander through the shop front or rear or anywhere, in mostly air conditioned air is likely to rise the temperature of the milk to a level that allows lactobacillus acidophilus to reproduce, that is 12C or more, is as likely as it is to win the lottery without purchasing a ticket. (As for E. Coli in the milk ... mm ... I would change suppliers )
Milk is pasteurised and 99.99% of bacteria is stone dead. Yes, some thermoduric survive but it takes a lot to wake them up.
Milk can stay unrefrigerated for two hours, one hour if the ambient is more than 30C. A few minutes more or less to a large mass of cold milk is uneventful.
Now what price can we suggest for those Das trinkets?
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Ha ha ... not to mention that it would serve as a self defence gadget rather well. The attacker would look at it and think ... whaaaat is thaaaat ??
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I am afraid that the microbiologic reason for the milk to be in the back of the store is ... how to say it without offending ... incongruous?
Milk is ... in western society, an essential item like bread. If you retail food you must have it. And for that precise reason the profit from selling milk is almost non existing. You would have rocks in your head if you place milk fridge at the front of the store.
Placing it at the back has two purposes. You use a lesser valuable space and force customers to walk through the store with the obvious advantage of displaying the rest of the merchandise that produces a larger profit than milk or bread.
As for the milk having to be rushed between truck and fridge ... there is such thing as specific heat capacity, and the milk is pretty high. It will withstand the trip from truck to fridge anywhere in the store, including a trip in the lift if applicable.
Now ... what happened to the question of the 19.99 price?
Oh yes ... Das, if you sell for $19, $19.90 or $19.99, the public will not notice any difference most of the time. If you sell for $20, it is that bit dearer. You will have to determine if it is enough to deter from the purchase or not. Stocking a bit of change is after all not a big deal, just a trip to the bank once in a while.
Sorry SLAG, bacteria are not that fast
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Look up "The psychology of pricing". It is a very interesting subject.
Consumer pays attention to the left digits more than the ending.
A round number ending in 0 like 20, is seen as a luxury item or 'no bargaining'.
There is something with the prices ending in 4 and 7 but i don't remember right now.
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Gunther/Schuler
http://www.anvilmag.com/smith/anvilres.htm
Agreed with Frosty. An anvil is not a mold or a die that needs to be perfectly flat, sharp edges and needle sharp horn end
... rather it is a rustic block, that needs to withstand the brute force of hammering. Round edges and dings and flaws on the face are not a problem.
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I agree with boot jack. It is used with the cross member down so that the fork is off the floor, and stepping with the other foot on the funny circular thingy at the back to keep it from lifting.
Or so I think.
If it turns out to be an obsolete garden digging implement, I am sorry.
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Any photos? Most old anvils have bits missing on the edges of the face. Welding them will only achieve a cosmetic result and the repair will most likely come off with a bigger chunk with use unless done with pre heat, the right rod and other details. Usually it is best to let it be. As for the underside of the horn ... why would you bother?
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Mm ... looks like Carolina Cayenne variety .
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19 hours ago, KingAether said:
Thanks for all the information guys, been offline a little while but i have just read through everything and am taking it in. I tried to move things outside over the week but the set-up didn't work out so i'm back to trying for good ventilation. I got the extractor out of storage finally yesterday but have been told it might be unsuitable for my use to due how its built posing a risk of sparks and explosions but surely hitting the hot metal in and of itself could also cause a spark? this is what i have, any ideas? The label says it passes 187 m3/h
That is a good axial fan to vent the workshop. Nothing wrong with it. For an explosion to occur you need a higher concentration of flammable gases. Surely if you enter the workshop and it smells badly of LPG or petrol or other solvents, you will not switch the fan on and rather open all windows doors and look for the source or leave no necessarily in that order
For everyday use, that is perfectly adequate, There are other fans, where the motor is not in the path of the air being moved. They are centrifugal and the motor can be totally enclosed and cooled by fins on the body rather than being open. Good for helping a flue or venting toxic or flammable gases, but a bit of overkill to vent a workshop.
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2 hours ago, CrazyGoatLady said:
Das, beautiful cross. I love it
Das ist a beautiful cross ... ha ha, love both the cross and the sentence
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On 12/9/2019 at 2:11 PM, Irondragon Forge & Clay said:
"Life is not only luck and chance". You made some good looking chances.
I agree with the good looking chances, but despite my very rusty french, I believe the translation is ... "Life is nothing but luck and chance"
however ... je peux me tromper
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On 12/10/2019 at 9:08 AM, jwilson645 said:
I have recently had requests for commissioned work and it scares me to death. I have been blacksmithing for 5 or 6 yrs but only really serious since March 2019. It's what I want but the pricing part of it turns my stomach because I feel like there are other smiths that can make things much better than me and so I don't know how to price my labor. I don't want to put it too low and take away from other smiths but I also don't want to put it too high and lose out on a sale.
There are many strategies to put a price to a custom job, all have their potential pitfalls. Basically it is a mixture of experience, confidence, research and gamble.
However what you must address is the reason it makes you so uneasy as to 'turn your stomach'
The price you charge is your estimation of cost of manufacturing, plus intellectual value, plus profit. You must first of all appreciate and value your work in order not to undersell yourself.
Instead of calling it a price, call it a "request for appreciation"
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Amazing work Hans. Good for you !
Congratulations.
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Having worked in commercial smiths for many decades, most of them manned ( No lady smith in those days, sorry
) by professionals who could be better described as artists way better skilled than myself, I say that the state of the workshop be it tidy or messy is no reflection of the work produced.
What is common to all blacksmith I have ever known is, that they know where the tools are in the workshop. You may look at an apparent messy disorder yet the worker knows where everything is, and that is all it counts. Some people are more inclined to keep everything in a perfect aesthetic order, others are happy just to have everything within reach.
Perhaps for the purpose of this discussion it pays to understand how disorder is created. Start with a perfectly clean and organised workshop, go in there and start to work on a window grill.
You will reach for different tools, cut stock, heat and forge, and make a mess in general. Your work is not affected by the surroundings, it is only your perception of things at this stage. At the end of the day, you are tired, happy or not with your progress and then you put the tools away and may be sweep the floor. The energy dedicated to this task is inversely proportional to the hours worked. Repeat for 5 or 6 days in a week and your workshop will not be like the first day.
Me personally, when I work on something that needs continuing the next day, I like to leave everything as it is at the end of the day to start the next day without needing to move things around. Others are fanatics about packing up and returning everything to its original state. Horses for courses. Is the work affected by either practice? I doubt it. It is all in our mind.
As for customer's perceptions ... my father owned, besides the smithy, an antique restoration workshop in partnership with an italian artist and employed a few cabinet makers.
The workshop was packed to the gills with a massive number of antique furniture, paintings, carvings, chest, wall clocks and anything else, awaiting restoration. There was a mezzanine attic that was absolutely impenetrable, full of stock and covered in decades of dust. The work produced was perfection itself and customers came in the workshop walking around in awe. In fact some even changed purposely into old work clothes, only to be able to rummage around to find something of interest. No one ever had anything to say about keeping things tidy. in fact I believe that keeping everything orderly and clean would have taken away from the mystery
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Not their fault. I went to primary school in a spanish speaking country and was taught the alphabet with the strange additions as extra letters. It looked odd to me even as a kid since I had already learned German and Italian and could write gothic and roman. Must say that German has one funny letter too, the ß, that oddly enough had no capital for a few centuries, only resolved very recently.
So your friends are right because they remember what they were taught in school.
Arriba Arriba ... something you would probably say : Ariba Ariba
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Yes, Slag, talking about language and funny pronunciations here Slag ... hello!
Climbing into active volcanos was part of the tour courtesy of the cruise ship.
No one was 'messing'
Anyway.
Thomas,
have bad news for your crosswords in spanish. The counting of rr, ll, ch, and, ñ as letters in the spanish alphabet (thats better) was dropped some time ago adopting the international standard. Imagine if the french had such urge to name all their funny letters as extra letter of the abc. Oh my!
Conflicting dates are 1998 and 2010. Not sure when.
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Yep, English was invented in England, and the many variations are amusing.
We had an earthquake in New zealand yesterday and there were several fatalities. The NZ PM told us that "People were messing on the island"
Oh my!
In the post office in Wellington last year, the post office master asked me if I had a 'litter' to post. Can you imagine squishing a litter in an envelope?
My Scottish neighbour always talks about the roof on his 'hose' . Lost me many times.
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Agreed. Most likely a stand made in a foundry for show / exhibit purposes.
The triple pritchel holes Uri Hofi style is a nice novelty.
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PW at first look, agreed.
Don't worry about rebound. It's all academic. As for ring ... who wants it?
Just use it. PW are real good workhorses.
Are you planning to do some forging?
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22 hours ago, Emretpc said:
hello my name is Emre 27 years old I'm dealing with metal design twisting I am from Turkey 3 months ago kohlswa sweden anvil bought 150 kilos swedish goods but how many years it is the quality of steel I do not know how I want to get information for those who know the table I made 6mm and 10mm plate iron eiffel tower tower I hope you like it thank you
18 hours ago, Frosty said:Reading again more carefully I see you're looking to import anvils, stand and maybe more Kohlswa products.
Frosty you must be telepathic. I can not see any reference to importing. It is obvious that the stand was not made in a workshop ergo my question to " ... I made from 6mm and 10 mm plate ... " etc.
Anyway, most likely due to language. A real nice stand. Not sure that it will not be in the blacksmith's way with those feet.
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Ha ha ... Thomas started to spell vice correctly
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Collision of the old and the new. The new lost
It seems that your moving jaw is lower than it should be. Check the big pivot bolt or the eye in the jaw for wear.
Also, the jaw insert don't sit properly in the jaw. The old one were not as high and sat below an edge that formed as the jaw rolled over with use. You may have to dress the jaw and fit the insert so that it sits flat and square against the jaw. Be careful with the grinder. Use only flap disk and that very sparingly a bit at the time checking repeatedly until the jaw insert sits square.
Sales tax
in The Business Side of Blacksmithing
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Clearly this depends of country / state and personal tax situation.
In Australia it is rather simple. Whatever you sell, if you sell over $75,000 needs to have 10% GST (goods and services tax) added to it. You can not claim back your GST from purchases if you are not charging because you are under the threshold. A bit of a catch 22.
Personal income tax applies regardless and we have the usual escalating rate in order to punish the high income earners who as everyone knows, are very bad people.
But after reading Hans' situation in Belgium ... I am not complaining. Go Boris go !!!!!!
GST that was introduced relatively recently, was supposed to be a blanket tax all encompassing and replacing several other state taxes like payroll tax and other very inefficient and encroaching taxes. In the turmoil that followed, those who pretended to protect the taxpayer, achieved the opposite, that is exemptions that made the tax less effective and consequently all other taxes remained. One particularly vocal group who's quest was to save the students from paying tax on books, achieved this exception in a time where ... well, who buys books? This affects mainly larger companies ( who as we all know are really bad people ) and the small business is better off in appearance. In reality suppliers are largely the target of over encroaching taxes and therefore everyone is affected by higher prices.
This scenario leads to a rather peculiar situation. Say you are a blacksmith selling your products in a country fair, you have a stall, you sell less than $75000 a year and are therefore exempted from charging GST. next to you is a steel supplier who manufactures steel products and sells them through a franchise of little outlets all registered for GST. Your competitor (the bad guy) is 10% in disadvantage with you, plus needs to pay a string of other taxes you do not.