onetreeforge

Our district just got hit by the worst cyclone NZ has ever had, many people lost houses, huge foods, our house and my workshop are fine but we have had no power or roads out and are getting air dropped food, we are way out on the coast, I had a 1949 BSA motorcycle in the shed that had been sitting for 12 years I got it going and was able to get through the slipped roads. Because we live on a small pore island the roads will be like this for probably years.

You can still find new old stock rolls of asbestos brake lining, they sell the modern equivalent to, if you can find a clutch and brake shop they have all different sizes, just wear a mask and do it outside.

I got x2 of those flywheels, the drill press had one under it S a base to. Cleaned up the vice, was a super dirty job cleaning the threeds, at some stage soon I will forge a mount with the keys.

I have a 10HP rotary converter and I tried to run my Lincoln DC welder witch is basically an AC motor but it won't even hold the welders relay closed and if it dose it just stalls.

People don't believe me when I say I have 240v in every room in the house. I can go and buy a 250 amp mig welder and plug it in in my bedroom because all the plugs are the same to. But seriously, wouldn't 110v power tools be lame?

I always wondered what its like with 110 volt power tools and welders? Are they rubbish? In NZ we just have 240v in the house, its illegal to sell any 110v appliances.

I had that problem with my VFD, converting single phase 240v to 380v it was on a 30 amp barker which would click off after a wile, I ran 16mm 2 neutral screen cable from the sub board in the house to the shed and fitted a 40 amp barker, I measured a 27 amps at the input for the vfd when the hammer was under full load, they pull more amps than you would think.

A long soak in oil and heat and its apart

This was in a garden and I got it cheap, I couldn't leave it, its got nice wide jaws and is not worn out, I have already made a spring, I can copy the mount from one of my other vices, I would like to find some Iron to forge it from so everything matches.

Get them both and and then one can have different dies and you dont need to make the choice on witch hammer to buy

Not sure, a quick google suggests a 201 We have those mud wasp things but they are nowhere as bad as those ones, they will fill up the odd bolt hole or your raincoat

Is this a 203?

Got this Champion post drill on wensday, was part of a garden display but it had been restored in the past, the owner was surprised when I said its not going to be used for garden display anymore, also I got a leg vice. The other smaller post drill is un branded, its definitely not Champion or Buffalo. I really hate it how people buy this stuff for garden displays and then scrap it when they decide they want to plant something elce.

I got it, dont see why it wouldn't run off a VFD, there is no connection between the welding side and the AC motor.

I saw an old Lincon vertical DC welder for sale and was thinking it would be good for my situation, I understandthey have an AC motor to run a DC welding generator? I have an 11kw VFD phase converter, witch will not run a normal 3 phase welding transformer but would run an AC motor happily. My AC arc welder is about 70 years old and doesn't work as well as it could thrugh the long run of cable to the shop. I use to have an old garden tractor that had a DC welder on it that was driven off the engine, I really liked that thing.

It would be the same pattern they bought the patent for

This Appleyard hammer was made in Newzealand by my ancestors, its another one of those hammers witch is made all over the world.

I saw a couple with those beaudry hammers had the same problem, one hammer had a hole hacked in the side.

There is alot of equipment from german war reparations here, and alot of American stuff from ww2 as they had alot of bases and factorys in ww2, my oxygen cylinders are stamped war department 1942 and I can still see the green paint under the black

I am talking about big mechanics, and import tarrifs etc. The poms probably took those arrow stamped hammer heads to Canada in WW1?

A 60 LB Atlas hammer has shown up in scotland witch means Atlas hammers are probably not made in NZ even tho they look just like the Anderson hammer and the Judson hammer.

Thats an interesting looking hammer, is the frame hollow?

I got the bar to welding temperature just for the photos lol. Its cold here but I wear overalls all year round, I want to get some bib overalls for summer, My friends Tom and Harley will be in the next issue of the shed

Made the front cover of a magazine

Yes 27 amps before the VFD step up to 400v. I am going to have a 40 amp breaker installed right at the power meter and run the biggest possible cable 57 meters through the bush to the shed. everything is 230/240 volts