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I got a nice buffalo 200 forge blower, it was concreted into the floor in an old barn, I had to take part of the floor home with me. it looks good next to my tiny Alldays blower.

Where I come from they use to say the farrier is a failed black smith

I found it! I got black pigmint used for making crayons, its made from burnt oil and is super black, the wax is as black as a bucket of tar now.

Cool thank you for that link, I think if I put about 20 of them in with my 20 kgs of wax should do it

I have used crayons in the past but I want to make the wax so black even when you run a hot knife over it its stays black, Here is a pic of some of my old wax, It had some kind of heavy drty plant based die in it, enen when I bake the molds to ment the wax out they are stained black.

Thank you all for the idears someone elce recomended cement dye, I just hope its not too gritty, I will also keep a look out for paraffin dye I don't know where I would find that here tho.

I have been buying wax from the foundry for my lost wax casting and it was a dark green but I was given a huge bin of black wax the otherday and I found it was much better to see what I was doing when working it, it is all used up now and I just bought a huge amount of micro crystalline wax from an oil company but its a light cream colour My question is I want to make the wax super dark so even when I wipe over it with a hot knife its still black, is there some kind of dye I can use? There is a posability the wax I have has charcoal dust in it but the guy who made it carn't remember.

If you see steel looking like this in most cases its mild, if it was spring steel or some kind of high carbon and you got it for scrap price your doing well, you could make tools with it. read up on the spark test with a grinder,

I built a hammer using the Dupont linkage using the leaf spring style, I just got the leaf springs from one side of an old car bolted the whole stack togeather put them in the forge and bent them all togeather, then trimed and ajusted them and had a spring maker harden them.

Thanks, I did some of the photos my self and and a cople firinds helped with the others as they had nice cameras

The Chinese butcher was selling chickens feet so I thought I would cast a cople, The crucibles are clay graphite, and C600 silicon bronze in them.

Hello I thought I might show some of my art as I have been posting a bit in the other topics, I do bronze casting and use recycled coper and steel, Here is my website, its a bit crappy but one day I will make a better one, http://www.rudibuchananstrewe.com/links/

Yes I need to make a brake as it slowley keeps going once you take your foot off the peddle

I use to do the demonstration historical vilige, the number 1 question guys would ask is how hot is that fire?, all the kids wanted to see me put some hot steel in the water. how heavy is the anvil? no I am not casting, why do you hit it with a hammer. But yes there were lots of very very strange questions, it all got to be too much in the end.

Here are some more forging clips I had some problems with the hammer but it turned out that the new grease I got was too thick and was gumming up the slide realy badley, also the cold was making the grease into glue. put some oil on it and the problems went away.

imagine all the stuff witch gets scraped, or I hope it gets saved

I am form Newzealand, please dont call me a Kiwi tho, I hate being called that.

Cool thank you for the info, I was just intrested to know

How meany CFM would you need to be to run a smallish steem hammer?

its bolted down to a concreat foundation i pored into the ground, it made a huge diffrence, the hammer guid is aluminium but was thinking about putting a bronze one in? Thats what I was worryed about, the dies are 4140, it was getting hot enough that when I pored watter on it was hissing, I might invest in some temperature crayons they are quit expincive tho. Glad it made someone happy

After about 2 months hard forging it seems to be holding togeather quit well, it runs alot nicer now that it has run in, thinking about making a brake as it likes to keep hitting slowley after I take my foot off the bar. the belt likes to have soapstone chalk dust sprinkled on it, or its grabby. When I am forging 2" bar the bottom die heats up and I have to keep cooling it witch is quit anoying, thinking to making one pece H13 dies . They say H13 won't start going soft untill its a dull red?

its on the other island, so wuit far away

I reckon 3 days to get down to the hammer and 3 back, and maby an extra day if you miss the boat from the south island

This hammer is forsale, looks like it has been out side for a wile, its about a weeks round trip to pick it up tho :(

They come up for sale in NZ very often, you wouldn't pay more than $100 NZD for a mint one, saw 4 of them sell for under $30 each the otherday, I still wouldn't leve them outside