Charles R. Stevens

It lives….

Wife has been sick, house siting for the kids, sub zero weather and biting a deer has kept me from finishing her up till today. 

Mounted the rebuilt Pro-forge on an old oxy/acetylene bottle cart and fired it up. 
in the  background is the old Samurai waiting parts and body work after hitting a deer.  
lit it isn’t one thing it’s another…

TP, that would trigger my PTSD, lol I would end up on 4,5&9  stories it was over!

Curved consent rates the energy splayed buy striking the tool to a smaller point, for rough work or work where you are cutting a line longer than the tool they work great. 

Ah yes, the military wasn’t a you to do “it” right now, wile waiting on “them” to do their part. 
“Do X now!” “I am waiting on Y to do Z so I can do X.” Do X now!” “OK, but it isn’t going to be right.” “Just do it”

All to common conversation to have with highers. 

Another Ely that has been forged in…

Tell them to fire up the forge and strike for you, it will warm them up just fine!

Ba humbug! 
well, ok I like y’all. So I do wish you all wonderful yultide

Go to the oil producing part of the state and get sucker rod (3 different diameters around here) they are something like 6040. Better than big box store rebar. Coil and leaf spring work to (do not quench if you over heat them) 

Good old Ely pearl snap  shirts are a good compromise between long sleeves and hot humid weather. 
note the little burn holes…

remember, cotton, wool, leather (and if your rich silk and linen) are your friend, Polly and nylon not so much. 

Now as soon as I start working with the gas forge the hair on the back of my hands will burn off. 

MIG and TIG don’t work worth a tinkers when the wind is blowing (Flux core not withstanding, but it foggy my lens as I hold my head differently for MIG than I do stick) so keeping it for those outside jobs is a good idea.

Your deposed to put your arms in the sleeves…

The legal and social issues of taking off enough clothes for hot and humid weather, I say it’s harder to live and work in extreme cold even with appropriate gear and clothing.  
High humidity tends to keep the temp down (90f/90%) vs low humidity (122f/6%). 
cold and hot both tend to make you work slow and smart wile hot tends to make you fallow the shade and breeze cold tends to make you fallow the sun and hide from the wind. 
I really hate wet cold.

I was raised in Cave creek, just outside of Phoenix AZ. The Army sent me to Germany in 85 (the winter that Big Ben froze). After a summer in Georgia…

Ba, forge a steel plate for your bone box and move on! Hopefully something else will get you before the big C finishes you off. 

You did good, they are a credit! 
tho I suspect their Mother only pretends to be the “sane” parent.

You raised them, they never stood chance at “normal” children. 

That’s OK PB, last time I was down your way I had to breath threw a straw it was so humid. Would have been drier if I stepped in the shower. 

Oklahoma can give you all 4 seasons on one day, record highs at midnight and record lows at noon are not unknown. 
take this Thursday, 45 at midnight, 5 at noon. And not even records…

I use either, being taught both in school and used both in the service. 

Metric easer to divide in half than fractions? 3/4 becomes 3/8, 3/8 becomes 3/16, 3/16 becomes 3/32…

we get base 12 from ancient counting systems that count the philangies of the fingers instead of the digits. Thus one finger is one threw three, two fingers are 4-6 etc. the other hand then gives us multiples of 12 wile the thumbs give us multiples of 144. 

Further 12 is evenly divisible buy 1,2,3,4,6 and 12 wile 10 is only divisible buy 1,2,5 and 10.  

as to heat loss, like a hat, we only loose more heat from our heads than the rest of our bodies when we are wearing otherwise warm clothes, we only loose more heat out the ports when we contain the flame and insulate the forge body… 

… the anvil didn’t ring till spring! Just a dull thud, thud, thud as the ring fell to the ground frozen.

Being that fine is pretty much 4060 spring steel it should work just fine

Jerry, you can have your weather back! But seriously it is what it is, no use complaining. 

To true. 
our cold weather this week has put the build on hold. I hoped to finish painting it but the wife had other ideas.