this is definitely not a light piece of I beam I am looking to use, at the very outside edges of the I it has to be about 3/8" thick.
I was working on ideas today on how to roll the one end into a horn. I am pretty sure I can do it, just not sure i can get it hot enough with the OA torch.
I have been asking people for the last few weeks if anybody knows where I can get an anvil and may have hit gold today, we have to go check to see if it is still where it was left or if a scrapper got a hold of it.
I did find a nice cross pein hammer head in one of the drawers of my truck today, must have been in there for 10 years or more, no idea where I got it from but all I have to do is make a handle for it and I got a nice hammer to start with. This head is probably 50+ years old, I love old tools
In response to the query where East Central is for me, I am rather close to Pottsville, about an hour away from Reading or Harrisburg, sit about right in the middle of the two. Right at the bottom of the Anthracite coal belt here in Schuylkill county. Like I said I can see the strip mine from my back yard, the old pit, reclaimed quite a while ago actually came right up to my back yard.
Another coke question: you make coke by getting the coal hot but giving it no or little air so it outgasses correct?
Chris