onetreeforge

I had some wraught iron and steel bars that had lead paint and powder coat on them, I burnt them clean in a wood fire outside when I had to burn a pile of old wood.

I was looking on youtube and people had done that, I wonder it that would run a 3 phase mig?

I just bought a one and half HP Crompton parkinson single phase motor off the internet, will see if I can pick it up on sunday

Thanks for the replys guys, I was looking thrugh google alot and they say I would loose upto 80% of power and burn the winding out, I see people have made converters out of a cople old motors, one spinning the other then run the 3 phase wires to the motor to be powered. I was looking at the powerlines and the 3 phase cables are about 2 miles from my shop, they will never ever run them to my place. How meany HP would I need to runn a 35 pound spring hammer?

I have had this problem for a long time, there is no 3 phase power where I live, just 240 volt single phase, but I just been told its sometimes posable to wire a 3 phase motor to run on a single phase?. now I have a power hammer and need 3 phase. I saw people had made converters on the net but this looked very complacated, any info would be very helpfull

Most of the people on youtube look like there using the coal you would burn in a fireplace, looks like hard work, the best blacksmithing coal comes from Wales I am told

Thank you, I hope I am an artist,

What kind of coal do you use in the USA? do the blacksmiths use cokeing coal? I have allways wondered, I burn it in my forge, even if its dusty when it burns it stickes togeather into coke, it dosn't form ash only clinker

bronze

Here are some photos of my art, I do bronze casting and copper work and blacksmith work,

I am just out of auckland in the bush

Just found this site, looks very intresting, I worked with an industrial blacksmith and a cople wrotiron shops when I left school, then went off and did other things for a few yers, now trying to forge and cast a living in my own shop witch I bult when I was 15 on my foks land, it was hard when I was that age buying blacksmithing tools, people didn't take me serousley haha. Have lots of questions to ask on there, see you around.