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  1. arkie
    We have to fit it in the forge first.....LOL!
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    That's a great idea for smithy walls. One can cram all kinds of stuff in the drums for storage as you said, and, they are fireproof too!! I would like to make a short stand and use one or two drums for short length stock storage. Mine are all crammed in a corner of the shop and I have to use a flashlight to sort through them.
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    Thomas, you can relate to this.... Here in NW Arkansas, when someone says, for example, "I'll be out to work on your stuff Tuesday." He just doesn't say WHICH Tuesday....had that happen more than once.
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    Hey! That picture looks like my avatar!!! Don't shoot!!! LOL
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    Randy, if the repair shop you found in OK is the one I'm thinking about, the folks over on the welding web who have had repair work done by them, recommend them highly..... A search on the forum would confirm the work the guys have had done.
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    Twisted, my stuff is under a shed now, but before that I had a plastic storage container covering my anvil and rwo rubber feed buckets covering my post vise and outside bench grinder. You could cover the swage block similarly. For your forge, a large metal wash tub would work. That way you could cover it while still warm after forging if rain was imminent.
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    Jen, you're gonna be as cozy as a bedbug this winter. LOL Although it's taken a lot of time and $$$, you did it right. Doubt there will be any regrets.
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    When we built our house some 15 years ago, we had two 4' x 6' double pane insulated picture windows installed. Like yours, one was apparently a tight fit. The carpenters did a slow, tap-tap-tap with backup on one of them...it cracked! They were obligated to replace it at their own expense (per contract)....$600. Like they say, "if it don't fit, don't force it!". Particularly glass.
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    Another coal grading "tool" often used is "vitrinite reflectance"....you'll have to google it....too much trouble to explain it here, sorry. (In simple terms, the shiny-er it is, the more mature, or harder it is.) No, "shiny-er, is NOT a technical term....LOL
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    And....you guys are giving me a headache!!!!
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    rare ti ?

    arkie replied to yt12's topic in Titanium Alloys

    Excellent tip, Frosty! I guess that could apply to any toothed blade? I do that to my hacksaw sometimes...works great.
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    I hope they haven't "lost" your $3000, what with their creative accounting......
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    TW, that absolutely sucks! So sorry to hear about the imminent domain mess. Hope you come out with a reasonable settlement. People like to move out to the country to get away from the city, then BAM!, here comes a highway or loop.....and destroys that dream.
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    Sounds like a kitchen remodel we had done one time. The contractor PROMISED it would be finished by end of October. Finally finished on Christmas Eve under threat of lawsuit.....
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    Yet, another estimate...you probably can count on that one being double as well.....
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    I have a friend who lives up on a mountain here and he has said that nearly every time he leaves to go to town, he runs across a bunch of wild hogs. He always carries, pistol and rifle, and if he sees a juvenile, he'll shoot it for the meat. Never eats the adults...says they taste a little gamy to him and are tough. Rest of them, he dispatches as best he can. Says the young ones taste ever bit as good as store-bought pork.
  17. arkie
    Perfect example of electrical bait and switch.......
  18. arkie
    And, if one is not allergic, alfalfa in bloom smells so sweet!
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    anvil, I spent my first years in college as a math major. I had reams of calculus courses, diff, integral, etc. etc...I subsequently changed majors to geology. I NEVER, NEVER had an opportunity or need for the many hours of calculus I took. What a waste of time! Computers did all the math.
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    John, thanks for explaining the differences in the curves and noting the angle for the Fibonacci curve.
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    John, VERY easy way to lay out a scroll. Thanks for posting it! Like Frosty, I bookmarked it immediately. Drawing the squares for the Fibonnaci or Golden Mean is a pain in the backside. Question, myself not being well versed on scroll/spiral curve generation, I realize that several of the different spiral curves look almost the same. Is this the same or just similar to the Fibonnaci or Golden Mean curve?
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    Purple Bullet, We saw several news reports from La Place after Ida did her damage dance. Hope your family, pets, house and container shop didn't sustain any significant damage (from the reports, La Place had severe damage from the storm).
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    Beautiful knife, beautiful video, beautiful country.... I can't believe you have cobras around your house!!!!
  24. arkie
    Like ThomasPowers said, do a spark test as well.
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    They have been known to get into an attic and have young ones....bad!!!! If you do put out a trap, try to place it as near to the entrance point the coon was using. He WILL return to the scene of the crime.... Yeah, SinDoc, I chose my avatar because when we first built our house here in the Ozarks we were "covered up" with coons. Took a couple of years to reduce the population to "manageable", if that's possible.
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