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3 hours ago, Meadowgrove said:

 Am I the only one who's seeing a seal? Looks at those legs, or flippers more so!

Now I do see the seal. Better watch out with all the white sharks out there.

On ‎12‎/‎17‎/‎2017 at 1:10 AM, Gergely said:

Maybe a rough dog sculpture...  But it still needs ears and the tail is kind of misplaced.

That is what I thought when I saw it, looks like a dog.

Looking forward to seeing how well it works.

6 hours ago, TJ Smith said:

26 inches long almost 5 inches in Dia. with a 3 inch rod. I use a 16 gpm and has a good

TJ,

What PSI does your pump run?

5 hours ago, JHCC said:

@Ric Furrer is a valued member of this forum.

Now don't I feel like a dummy! I never put that together. I like Ric's posts and the "don't try this at home" profile pic.

JHCC, as someone that suffers from "can't leave well enough alone" syndrome I can say 100% that yes, you are correct that can and has happened. 

Good find but I would expect some neat things like that in Louisiana with the oil production. I hope you make good use of it.

I thought that might have been the case, sounded too easy a fix. I picked out a 28" hunk of 2" square steel the other day and I was looking at it thinking I might make a stump anvil or the like until I hit it with a hammer. "thunk!" I thought to my self, this may not be cast iron (it was some kind of improvised tow bar in a past life) but it is not something you would want as a first choice for an anvil.

On 12/2/2017 at 9:46 PM, Lionel h said:

piston pin

What was that a piston pin to? Man that is BIG!!!

Ernest

On 12/16/2017 at 5:12 AM, John McPherson said:

you will be struck by how Light and Thin daily use weapons were historically. Also, how roughly made many items were when you get up close.

Take a look at this site and watch the video on YouTube. they use a pile of bricks charcoal forge to make a great looking sword. 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html

NARRATOR: With the letters welded in place, Ric must now make something called the "fuller." The fuller is an indentation down the center of the blade. It reveals the ingenuity of Viking-age craftsmen.

RICHARD FURRER: You've got the start of the fuller, and that will get progressively deeper as we go. We're just going to bring that all the way up the blade.

The fuller allows longer blades, wider blades, yet the same weight as thicker, un-fullered pieces of steel, because it acts like an I-beam. An I-beam has structural members here and a horizontal. So, here, we have the fuller acting as the horizontal, and a little bit thicker material, and then going down to a cutting edge. So you have the minimal amount of material to give you the maximum amount of strength.

So, in this time period, the blades are getting longer and longer and longer, but the weight remains about the same. A completed sword weighs about two pounds, a little bit less, about like a baseball bat. Swords weigh about what a baseball bat weighs.

NARRATOR: The fuller made longer blades lighter.

All,

This is off topic but have you ever seen a smith file hot steel with a farrier's rasp? I saw this at the Athens Forge meeting and it watched this old smith file the 1600+ degree steel like he was grating parmesan cheese!

5 hours ago, Charles R. Stevens said:

The web of a heavy gauge rail is about 3/4” and 8” high, lots of spring

Mr. Charles,

Would welding additional mass between head and the base help? I know it will not add rebound since you can't expect a pile of mix and match steel welded together to have the same physics as a single hunk of the same steel forged for the task of being an anvil but I wonder would it help?

Ernest 

On 12/13/2017 at 2:13 PM, rhitee93 said:

I think the full force of the press is going to be exerted on the stich welds

Rhitee93,

What would you suggest to reinforce the press in the case of these stitch welds? Looking at it as an amateur grinder (since I seem to grind more than weld) I would not have thought of that. Maybe you would use some stock that welds to all 4 flanges (if that is the right word) of the 2 I-beams? Before I got my 220 installed I would have drilled holes for 1/2" grade 8 bolts.

BlackSmith 450, please let us know the pump and the specs the ram requires and then post a video of you and your inner 12 year old squishing things!

thanks,

Ernest

Hope no one got a foot in the way of that thing! Think about using lashing straps so you can tie it in to a pouch of sorts and then 2 people can do the forearm forklift with it.

How many people did it take to move that thing! Nice chunk of steel, it's big!

This place http://stancomfg.com has welding jackets that go to 3X tall and at the Air Gas site the green cotton jackets are around $25.00.

10 minutes ago, notownkid said:

"Big & Tall" catalog? 

For a long while the Big and Tall store was more of a Big and some what taller than normal store but they seem to have turned back around. There are a few places that have good stuff. I used to really like the Lee jeans but they stopped making anything longer than a 36" inseam. I just ordered a large sheet of oil tanned leather from springfieldleather.com at $3.50 a square foot and my wife, daughter and I are going to make me a new leather apron out of it. 

Slag, not shelers  but Sheplers. Google it if nothing else. I got an error also but I took off the HTTPS and the site and cert seemed to get along with my browser. 

On ‎10‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 5:00 PM, GandalftheGold said:

I am 6'7" with a 32 waist and 38 inch inseam.

My brother you are in the same boat that I am in. I get my jeans from amazon but as a 46x38 the logistics between you and I are going to differ.  I get my dress shoes(14 to 15 3E or wider) and sneakers from amazon or zappos and I got my work boots https://www.sheplers.com.

Hobart glove
Ultimate-Fit Welding Gloves (large #770710) are a tight fit and I am going to try the x-large next, they sell them a amazon but Northern Tool has the x-large (770695) for a lower price than amazon. 

On ‎10‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 10:41 PM, Tubalcain2 said:

I am 6' 4'' and growing.

I am 6' 8" and I want to stop growing, I have grown from a 38 waist to a 40, then 42, 44 and now 46 waist!

On ‎10‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 5:19 PM, Daswulf said:

apron you could always add to the length on one.

What Daswulf said!

Go to this site brettunsvillage.com and/or email Kevin@springfieldleather.com tell them what you want. I have asked Springfield Leather in the past about an apron and Kevin told me the following "For a welding apron, I’d be using oil tan leather.  it’s more expensive, but it just flat works…" That will allow you to make one you need not what the "one size fits most" store will sell you.

I hope that helps.

5 hours ago, Will W. said:

And when credible news sources such as the BBC

The problem is that credible news sources like the BBC don't take the time to fact check stories because the need to be the first. I have seen spelling errors and auto correct errors on websites like the BBC that shows people are trying to get content out a fast as they can w/o doing the kind of editorial review that made them credible news sources to start with. People just don't or can't take the time required to provide the work to insure their craft produces the best product.

Ernest

56 minutes ago, jeremy k said:

Don't under estimate hole saws

I try not to underestimate any tool and not over estimate my skill or ability. I can break darn near anything!

Ernest

Funny story about water cutting. I went to L Miller and Sons here in Huntsville to ask about how much it costs to water jet or plasma cut something. They told me "we can't tell you a price without a design to work from" bottom line they could not tell me anything about pricing w/o a CAD file to put in the system. I figured I would go for something just across the border in to crazy land so I gave them a CAD file for a swage block. When I checked back with them they wanted to know what I was smoking. They asked "do you know how much it will cost to cut that!" I told them I did not know since they can't give me a price w/o a CAD file. The guy went on to tell me that it costs a given dollar figure per minute or work and the water jet needs some number of minutes per inch of thickness for a given number of linear inches. I thanked the guy and told him that is what I needed to know. I told him I was sorry for submitting such a large item but that was all I had on hand and I really had no idea how much it cost.

I guess when you are elbows deep in CNC water and plasma cutting day in and day out you forget what the uninitiated may or may not know. Ether way I agree that getting a water cut hole in this case would be the best idea.

Ernest

Good Morning Folks,

I have been mulling a leg vise for a while and I saw this video on YouTube where the smith made the vise out of forklift tine! I got to wonder how long it took to cut the hole for the screw with the a hole saw. No spring on the vise but it seems like a good concept.

This is a tool that looks like it will last for a very long time. I don't know if he is on IFI but I would not mind seeing more of his stuff.

6 hours ago, Steve Sells said:

And just how was anyone not living near there, <like most members of this forum>  supposed to know that? and what does it have to do with the price of tea in China?

Sorry about that I posted in too much of a hurry and left out the link to the Wiki on the fire near Atlanta.

I don't know why someone set this fire but a storehouse full of HDPE pipes later and one I-85 southbound bridge is gone DoD Workforce Certification (DWC)

4 hours ago, G-son said:

The diffrence is not quite as big when using ethanol, but you still need way more than you would need gasolene

The main reason for trying it with ethanol was I thought there was less of a chance that I would blow my self up.