oldanvilyoungsmith

Well, I've spent enough money on supplies that I decided it was time to start a thread about this. I've been slowly planning out this build, and am finally pulling the trigger on some materials. Last week I brought home this used motor to power the beast, 1.5 HP industrial motor, single phase, 220 v. Then today whilst wandering the scrapyard I found the right hunk of steel for the anvil, 9.25" dia steel, 3' long. Weighs in about #700. That's all for now, I'll keep ya'll updated as I slowly get together the stuff to start the build. Stephen.

Thanks Tanto, I found a pin that was holding in the drive gear I'd missed earlier. I pulled it out and thus was able to remove the drive gear. Since nothing needed fixing, I decided to just to clean out the inside of the gear casing as it was without removing all the gears. Cleaned everything up, wirebrushed the ole crusty gunk and wiped it down with oil. I considered painting it, but decided I didn't want cover up the well earned patina it had. Once it ain't raining and I have some sunlight, I'll take some better pictures of it.

A guy gave me this blower a few years ago, and it's sat around in my barn not being used, because I was using something else. Well, I've decided I'd like to put it into service soon, so before using it I decided to pull it apart and clean it up, and check out the innards, didn't want to start using it just to perpetuate some problem. Well I was happy to find that there seemed to be no problems. Everything turned smoothly and cranked well. The bolts holding it together were fairly well frozen up, but some liberal applications of liquid wrench and several heat cycles with a torch loosend them up easily enough. Only thing I can't figger is how to pull the gears from the gear case. It looks like there's a set screw and a key holding the drive gear in; but after removing the set screw, and giving a few whacks to the drive shaft, nothing moved. And I don't want to start wailing away on anything I'm unsure of.

Thanks guys, glad you like it. ___________________ Last Ronin, I know I'm not an expert, and this is the first one I've done, but my thought process was that since the thin parts of the legs are low down and away from the fire, they shouldn't be affected. Might be wrong, but that's the way I looked at it at least. ___________________ Dave, it might not be seen well in the photos, but I do have two legs in the middle of the grate, I was worried it would sag without those so I added them. here, you can see the legs better in this shot.

Just finished this up for a customer, first grate I've made before. He wanted a fairly simple fire grate, but still not your average hardware store grate. This is what I came up with... 5/8" square steel, I upset and flared the ends, fullered the legs, and chiseled a simple decoration on the cross bars. Approx 32" x 13" The whole thing is tig welded together; I wanted to drill holes in all the joints and use forged rivets, but that would have taken a lot more time, and the customer didn't want to pay for that extra touch.

Made this up the other day based on the design I saw Vaughn use here (link). I really like the design, nice and simple, and works well. As you can see, I modified the design a bit to suit the materials I had. I modified a turnbuckle so I can set it up easily and tighten up the spring for the holding power I want. Now that I've got it together, I want to get a new spring that's stronger, and shorter. There's a bolt I put onto my anvil stand that the end of the turnbuckle goes to.

Larry, I cheated. :o I started with some plate steel I had laying around, I'd have to check but I think it was somewhere around 3/32 -1/8" thick, I pre cut to about the size and shape I wanted then forged it out.

Hey Ya'll, I'm Stephen, a few of you might recognise me from various knifesmithing forums. Recently I've been playing a lot more with regular blacksmithing and not just knives, so I decided to come join up over here. So yeah, enough jawin, howdy ya'll, hope you like it. Made this up last week, forged from mild steel, with offset curl on tail for hanging, and curly maple handle w/ brass pins. You can see the influence of my knife making in the addition of the handle, I positively love curly maple, and thought it would be a good looking addition to this ladles style. Little over 13" long, with nice big extra deep bowl for those extra big servings of chili :D

Oh this is a great tool, I've been needing to make something like this, to the drawing board!! :D