Marc1

21 hours ago, Tradical said:

Who IS the seller of peddinghaus in the US?

i was referring to a reseller who has a website mentioning old technical data from before the take over. Since that name has been edited out from Jenny's comprehensive response, I will not name it. Must be anathema or something. The fact remains that Ridgid negative reviews are easy to find, not so for Refflinghaus. Reffy is a family business that has been into making anvils for over 100 years. I exchanged emails with one of the family members in charge of sales, since we don't have a representative in Australia. They seem very accommodating and friendly. 

Having said that, i am of the impression that the negative reviews for Peddinghaus come most likely from poor quality control and that the anvils are fine anvils ...if you don't have the bad luck to get one less than perfect. A problem with large companies.  

Don't mean to discourage you, but depending on what you intend to make in your blacksmith shop it is highly likely that you will not need that buffer at all. 

Get yourself a bandsaw instead. 

Hard to say. Refflinghaus is still the same it always was. Peddinghaus was taken over by Ridgid. If that makes a difference or not is anyone's guess. 

Having said that, it is easy to find bad reviews on line for Peddinghaus and hard to find one bad for Refflinghaus. Plus, it seems the the seller of Peddy in the US has old data from before Ridgid took over. It that has any real meaning ... again ... who knows? My guess ... (wild guess) is that Peddinghaus produces a dud anvil from time to time, so it is really potluck.

3 hours ago, Peppie said:

Finished up a twisting jig today. The twisted bar in the jig is 3/4". The jig was first mounted on a bench, but I found it awkward to twist large stock. So I thought I would jig up a mount for my anvil stand. It is easily removed, and can be mounted back on the bench to twist smaller stock in the wrenches. 

Peppie ... the reason the twist in your machine is slightly bent, is because the bar does not seem to be properly supported and is allowed to wander sideways in a larger guide. You need to clamp top and bottom firmly in a bush that can only turn with no slack. The handle should have a similar bush turning inside a tight guide that allows turning only and sliding along the axis to compensate for material shortening. 

Yes, they started the same in Sydney with great fanfare, but forgot to stock the shelves, so seniors queued up for an hour from 6 to 7 only to find empty shelves. If we ever have a real emergency, something like a war, not this boyscout stuff ... we are truly doomed. 

4 hours ago, Ramsberg said:

Not sure where to put this, but since many people here will be handling steel handled by other people, or passing their work on, this seems relevant.

The link contains some good information but turns political toward the end of the article. For that reason it has been removed.

Thank you for the link Ramsberg, most informative and free of the usual fluff and ads. The story about the naming of the Coronavirus is pathetic and reflects the incompetence and irrelevance of the so called leaders who only lead their own careers and income source. 

Let's hope we reach the top of the Gaussian bell soon and start the descent towards reduced numbers of infections.

Stay safe, stay home, wash your hands, don't touch your face, clean everything that has been touched by others including parcels, delivery, letters. If you can't find sanitizer, use windex, or make your own sanitizer with ethanol and aloe gel or similar moisturizer.

Don't get obsessed with the alarmism of media. They get paid to get more viewers to the screen who in turn will consume more advertising, that is their job, not information or education. Selling is their job.

You don't need to buy.

Supermarkets in Sydney have imposed a quote on popular items like TP one pack per customer, two hand sanitisers etc. But the best idea is that from Thursday, they will open one hour earlier, during restocking time and let only the oldies in. 

I find that great. I'll get in, buy TP and cleaning stuff, wait for an hour and resell them at triple the price at the door when they run out ...

THe revenge of the oldies 

There is nothing "stupid" about the response from people to overexposure and bombardment from media on this issue. In fact it is a predictable and well known behaviour. 

The only thing that would be interesting to know is ... if this massive exposure  that created the wave of panic is intentional, or just the natural unintended result of how media and governments work. 

We will probably never know. 

Meantime today I will see if I can find some more toilet paper to add to my stockpile of 2,543 rolls so far ...

Actually 2,542 ... 

PS

Our Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton just returned from meetings with his counterparts in the US and brought home the virus with him. 

No one is exempt, but travel and gatherings are the way to spread it, regardless of status.  

6 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

OTOH I am still very down on folks who tell me that a local machinist or welder wants to re-do their anvil...

But but ... don't you need sharp edges and flat face and needle sharp horn? 

Results back today and they are negative. i wasn't too worried as I survived gangrene, tuberculosis, and lead poisoning of the accelerated metallic kind ... but my wife was a bit down. She is happy back in her surgery. 

17 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Marc, my thoughts exactly---time to buy!  I told my wife we would have to coast on our savings until the market picks back up---never sell in a down market!

Buy blue chips that pay fully franked dividends. I don't care for the value of the stock but to purchase more units that will pay more dividends. Trading stock is a total bore and guaranteed to stress me out. Use to trade in the future market but my results where too close to flipping a coin.

Still no results. i get the impression that everyone is overworked, and fumbling in the dark, making it up as they go. 

Well ... it happened to us this time. A patient came into my wife's surgery stating he had returned from Kuwait and needed a medical clearance to go back to work. My wife, who has been using mask and gloves for the last month among the sneers of her colleagues, detected a fever and supplied the patient with a mask and sent him for testing with no clearance. On Sunday the health department tracked my wife down at our weekend house and told her the patient tested positive and to get tested herself.   

Thanks to her precautions adding to the brief exposure ( under 10 minutes) and keeping distance, the results will most likely be negative, but we are still waiting. Most likely today (48 hs)

During her self imposed absence from  the surgery, staff and doctors are all wearing masks and gloves now.

Meantime ... I will be stocking up on toilet paper and yeast and dog food as an added precaution ... Ok may be not dog food ... a case or two of top red wine perhaps?  

PS

Seriously now, if you get this wretched virus, it seems you will be immune for life ... if you survive that is. Let's see how we do. 

One thing that seems to be the go is to buy devalued blue chip stock. Nothing like panic to make some money. 

Question ... is this coincidence? Do they know something we do not? Or is this all too convenient? 

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/20/the-world-knows-an-apocalyptic-pandemic-is-coming/

When I check the terms for hardening and tempering in swedish, it seems they are used interchangeably like the case in Italian and spanish. Hardened steel translate into acciaio temperato in italian or acero templado in spanish. The hardening side of things is lost in translation. German seems to be more precise in the use of words, with Härten und Anlassen.

Considering that hardening and tempering is an industrial process not easily understood, this is not surprising. Add to it the secrecy around the process that shrouded it for centuries as if black magic, up to this very day it seems ... to understand what to do with your hammer forged into a punch, I suggest to read a textbook in your language that describes the process in detail. Sweden has been the capital of the best steel since the times of the Vikings who, if historian are to be trusted, improved their own steel with techniques and material taken from the arabs. 

A visit to your local state library will most likely yield good results.

Med vänliga hälsningar

Do you get the crazy run for toilet paper up there?

Or was it the big hammer?

Says the cowboy keeping the 3 kg mallet at hand ...

Yes, a common problem and unfortunately to do with age. I also have the auto darkening lenses two numbers lighter (13?) and +2 lenses inside the helmet. It helps a bit but not much. Sometimes I think I get the weld right only because I've been doing it for so long and I get to feel the steel joint with the torch/wire rather than seeing it.

1/2 hour and two minutes ...

i also try to have just one meal a day. Best thing ever, gives your body a break from constantly using all resources to process food. There are studies who show that the Pancreas' Islets of Langerhan can regenerate and start to produce insulin again, if they pancreas gets a break from constant being bombarded with food. 

The multiple meals a day advice from nutritionist is the biggest nonsense we ever had to endure, together with the "food pyramid".

Drink water on the other hand is essential. 

As far as i know anyway ...  

Clearly the previous post who refer to hair dryers belonging to daughter or wife, have the potential to offend. From now on we must refrain from using any reference to gender. I suggest that the website be reprogrammed to cancel out any words containing daughter - wife - woman - man - son -  husband  (especially husband)  or any other that has the audacity to refer to such thing as gender. Articles like She or He must be replaced with "It" 

Acetone and ATF ... now that has to work. Thinning out one of the best detergent oils has to be a winner. 

I have freed up rusted solid bearings by submerging them in kero for weeks. The acetone/ATF would be great for tight spaces like a bush. Best of luck and be patient, No blowtorch ... yet

Kero and ATF are the best penetrating fluids besides the one you can buy like PB blaster. I would also give the shaft light taps along the shaft to crack the rust.

Have you seen it spinning before this? 

Mythbusters is required to bust myths, so that is what they do, regardless if the myth is feasible.

They used to be an interesting show, they are rather pathetic now. 

A bit on WF on an old discussion.

As to what to do with it ... well, if you want to sell it you may find buyers here in the tailgate section, otherwise ... use it yourself.