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  1. I have a pry bar that i broke one of the nail pulling ears off of. I thought it would make a great blacksmithing project to cut off the other ear, and reform the nail puller jaw. the question is. how is the standard crow bar, or pry bar heat treated? (this is the standard 6 sided hex bar with a more than 90deg bend on the nail puller end and a slight bend on the other flatened end) Are these heat treated? I would think air quench would mean the steel is to soft for prying, but water quench would make it to brittle and subject to fracture especially when being beat on with a hammer.
  2. In the intro to blacksmithing class i took, they had us make both a punch and chisel out of 5/8" or so coil spring steel. One of the instructors cut the coil spring up with a die grinder into half coil chunks. Then dropped 2 on each of our anvils and said, make them straight. That took the better part of an hr. You really got time to stoke the coal, and hammer the coil due to the largeish size. It was also a great project to show how to use different weights of hammers as the little ball pein that many people chose to work the smaller 1/4" material earlyer in the morning was woefully inadequate for the coil project. that lesson then ends with a hands on lesson on tempering.
  3. Thanks guys, I got the cover off. There was some residual grease in the bottom around the worm screw but the other end was collecting flakes of rust from the top. It will get rinsed out and some new lube. 00 grease is what is common in gear housings for brush hogs. its roughly a 50/50 mix of standard axle grease and 10w30 motor oil. Lubricates like oil, but sticks like grease, kinda a best of both worlds. I plan on putting a few tablespoons of it in the housing and then drip oil through the top as needed (as I've read) The clinker trap, it rotates freely but i think the lever with the weighted ball is bent incorrectly. It does not seem to "hang" with the trap in the vertical position. It should yes?
  4. Yes it turns nicely. doesnt feel to be missing any teeth. fairly smooth but still want to open the cover and clean it out and oil it up. From other pics of them they have a large tapered flat head screw that acts as a dovetail? so the cover slides off away from the blower? Oh and how do you tell the name of the forge? champion? I dont find anything cast into it. Ive used this exact kind of forge before and really liked it. Plus i wanted something larger than just a small rivet forge.
  5. I've dabbled in blacksmithing as a hobby for years. Ive been a member of IVBA for several years now. Finnally got the forge I was looking for. Its been 2 years on CL to find one close to me. Picked up a champion #400 blower and a post vise also. how does the cover for the blower come off. obviously you take the 2 screws out by the blower, then what?
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