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thank you steve was not sure what the correct term was so was probly searching wrong 

i was over at a much older excoworkers house yesterday and his wife had little candies with shapes in the center  like xmas trees and oranges  watermellons  and it got my brain working  so i looked up how they do it for candy and was wondering if anybody had succesfuly  got a specific  image in their pattern  now i am not expecting it across the hole billet just the end  of like a round bar or square i was thinking it would make for a cool end for a cane or a pommel  i have seen some vids close but the al seem to be going for the  side of the billett not the end 

 i dont smile alot for pics i got some teeth issues  that make me look like  meth head  i was on dylantin  and tegretol for almost 30 years and ruined my teeth but soon i will have new top teeth  we found a place that will do complete upper dentures and remove whats left  in one day  for less then a new car  my insurance will cover the extractions  hopefully  then i have to pay for the new chompers  it has been harder finding a place to get this done then finding  a #400 anvil for $100

 my plan is to make a half moon shaped with the blanket on all sides with kiln shelf on the botom on top of the seam of the wool then refractory cement  on all the exposed surfaces of the wool  with a split metal door  lined with wool  that opens like french doors with a notch out of the bottom corners of then to alow handels to stick out  the bottom will be 3/8 plate with the moon part being 16 gauge  with a  lip on the front about 2  inches down from the top with wool wraping the lip so when i close the doors its wool to wool makeing some what of a seal at top and sides of doors then having a multipe burner set up  it will be about 18 inches deep with the back end closed off  for now  with a plan to   put a door on the back later  i will takes lots of pics and post once i start  my orignal plan  got scraped cause i had to use the  pipe i had  for a different project 

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when i search i look for 1 inch thick 24 inch wide  then compare prices based on equal lenths and shipping  i know  the density and how many layers will affect the performance  and coating it . my main concern is this isnt a name brand more expensive typ like Kaowool but  possibly a chinese knock off i  keep seeing the same quantity from 100 and up plus 30 to ship  on most the sites.  the #8 is 83 with free shipping from zorro thru walmart . i  know that is a lot of product but what i dont use for  forge can go on a shelf till i need it since there are people on amazon selling the same  thickness and width in 31 inch lenths for $50 i can always cut it in 3 foot lenths and sell it off  to make my money back more profit then selling other things and no fear of paternaty test 

has any one used this brand http://www.walmart.com/ip/43062374?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227030820775&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=55974472856&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=99933964376&veh=sem if so any thoughts on it its about half the cost but that kinda scares me cause i know you get what you pay for 

(ok looked little more this only #6 but they have #8 for only $83 for 24" by 25')

we have a local foundry here and i have often wondered about  having an anvil cast but figured it would be cost prohibitive even if i made the prototype for them to make the mold from . i will def be following you post  to see how it turns out

not gunna have much luck finding AIA in a libary  from personel experience my local has access to the index of every libary in illinios and the only one that had it was the school libary at carbondale  but i have an awsome mom inlaw i mentioned it one day while at a book store and 2 months later got it for xmas its only like 65 on amzon right now i would just go for it 

here's the Arm and Hammer i use when i get the chance to  weighs out at #172  on a scale got good rebound and a nice ring it toned down a little when the chains were tighter but the stump is starting to split on me so i am gunna hit the scrap yard they have a 12x12x 24 peice of solid i want that would work as a nice solid mass under it  but i wont  get it set up till i get my garage done  so i only have to move it three times i am going to copy three leg design for  i-beam i saw on here till then 

thank you BIGGUNDOCTOR that was other part i wasnt  quite getting was it seemed like a weld rod on all the vids but the bit that came with it looked a little weird compared to the set up for a arc welder  honestly after asking on here i might  mess with it to heat some some small scrap just to figure it out but wont go beyond that alot of sites seem to say dont do anything but straight mig welding with this welder cause the boards will go bad faster if you do and the boards are about the 1/4 of the cost of going and buying another welder so its got to last till i can save up for somthing better like  a lincoln 180 duel  or a hobart 210mvp

thank you KRS this machine has a ton of funtions compared to the other welders i have used . it works nice . dont want trash it  its got spot and stitch funtions also i might play with i got so i could weld small projects with out blowing the fuses in the house cause most of my 120 outlets only have 15 amp breakers  so when i was given this one i changed the end so can plug it in behind the stove  or the dryer depending where i need to work doesnt blow the breaker that way. just to be safe i had a buddy come over and weld  a bunch while i was in the basement running my hand over the wireing feeling for hot spots all was good 

for what it is worth snapon customer service can mail the pdf for ya205b owners manual for the ya205a deluxe you have to call the minn. teck line for lincoln then they can email the pdf to you i am saying this  cause it seemed when i was looking for the manual lots of forums had the question but no one ever answered if the found it and if anyone wants it on here let me know and i will post the file somehow

the mig i i was given recently is a snapon ya205a  earlyer today i got the manual from snappy  . it explained what one of the little tools on the shelf was .it is a carbon arc rod for heating  sheet metal then throwing a cold wet rag on to make it shrink  while digging on the web  i have found carbon arc gouging   for use with an arc welder looks like a  arc welder clamp with holes to blow air down at arc to blow away the puddle  i am wondering if its posible to  just use a  metal tiped blow gun and strike an arc with one hand and blowit out with the otherhand   my other thought was to  screw in my attatchment  with a peice of heat resistent tubing the mig tip end then run regulated shop air to the mig hose  like what they show on the arcair  handle. the pic is the piece i have it srews in the end like a tip   you pull your wire out of the lineing then turn up voltage touch to surface pull the trigger and then back away alittle to heat up the panel i havent tried yet  so not %100 sure on trying it cause if i am wrong i cant aford to replace the welder   and it does an awsome job as a mig alone 

sorry not a horse person just know he had same horse for the entire show it was one of those tid bits encore talked bout when they had critics intro the shows and my  only personal experience with a horse  is trying not to get licked  while digging things out of a collapsed shed on my  aunts place they had a black  horse that she said was a butthead   and every time i would think i was safe he would sneak up lick the back of my head then turn around and walk off when i got done digging out the stuff she wanted  and was safe  out side the gate the old lady wouldnt stop laughing the entire time im worried about snakes and wasp and the dang horse deciding wether or not i taste good enough to take a bite of . she also had emu too that had already done its thing all over the ground around the shed  not a fun day but i got my revenge later while sitting on the deck going thru the  steamer trunk she pulled the  tray out of i saw a big old snake and i swear yelled snake as i stood up and walked in the  house but they say i dint yellit till i was behind the glass door either way i wasnt dealing with it 

definitely want pics of chair when done that looks nice 

has any one used a on /off foot switch with this kind of set up so its not always on put you piece in step on it once it stays on  then when yu take it out step again and it turns off like the  foot control for a christmas tree 

because of health issues i was stuck in the house and close to the grown ups if went anywhere so i got sit and talk with all the old fogies when i was a kid . at home it was lots of old westerns and   the musicals like 7 brides for seven brothers  and visting family it was   stories like quote  ( back in ot 9  me and your grandpa went skinny dipping in the misisippi with the johnson twins) look across the yard and realize the johnson twins are 300 pounds each and 89 years old que cold shiver up spine  but i wouldn't trade any of it  i got a lot of words of wisdom from some xxxx good guys like  dont trust a dog you dont know and dont pee in the wind  and never doubt the shooting ability of an old blind man especially if its a moving target 

here is a better pick of the anvil and hammer

actually the guy who played festus was  a singer and  very  handsome  he stared in a couple previous episodes of the show as a  sweet talking out law before   playing the festus character   none of the main characters were crippled in real life but the chester character did have a gimp leg  dennios weaver was the actor if remember right  the  blacksmith played by burt reynolds was also   per the show a half breed  to add tension to some episodes when he would woo the ladies and their families  would get upset  the only characters to remain on the show for entire thing was mat thge marshal , miss kitty  and matt's horse the chestnut bay  i love the show and encore western has it on all the time  one of my favorite episodes  has lenord nemoy as an indian  that knows where a secret treasure is buriued but its false and he is using it to get revenge on the men who killed his freind  

this isnt the one i use .  this rr anvil was bolted to back of my grandfather welding and black smithing truck  he passed away  a year before i was born  my granny used it to hold open her bed room door when she want the breeze to go thru the whole house  when she passed away this was the only thing i got to keep  i starde my  hobby smithing on it  then when i up graded i   set it on the shelf   2 years ago when i got married  i polished it and the hammer  then stamped the wedding day into the hammer  after the preacher said i now pronounce you man and wife  he hit the anvil like it owed him money and it rang out across the whole lake  the hammer is mounted on a piece of rustic cherry with the word love  on it  the anvil sits below on a side table now 

i needed a frame welded up for a fire pit  since i didnt have a welder at the time took it up to a buddy at the shop he worked at   he welded it  right on the tail gate of my truck  while he is zapping away i just turned around and smoked my cigg  my diamond plate box reflecting it in to my eyes the whole time  after that i dont  even stand in same area with out proper ppe now that i got my own welder its not such a problem makeing sure i have ppe on . but if im visting some one and i even think they might be welding i wait outside tell i hear all clear nothing feels like arc flash in your eyes honestly think i would rather super glue my eyes open and then sit in a sand blasting cabinet 

cut a plate like a picture frame bolt the blower to the plate then bolt the plate to the forge 

i look at it like the gun buying craze . there for a while you couldnt buy 22 ammo for first born child and a left arm  so i sold  every bit i had  and stock piled  the cash  now that things are cooling off i walk in to farm king buy it cheap and put back in the safe once my shelf is full again spend the extra but i do that with every thing . when i worked satilite install new guys would hire on work a couple weeks then quit  i would buy their tools penny on the dollar  as spares or sell to the next batch of new guys  for a profit . remember when OCC was on and every dink in every town started a bike shop   now you can buy most of those bikes for under  5k  less then they payed for the motor back in the day when this is over and fad dies there will lots of good barely used  tools for sale cheap. i know i am just a hobbiest  i dont even fel comfortable calling my self a smith  i make things for myself and for freinds and family . i have never sold a single thing i ever made on my anvil i probably never will i do this to as my meditation cause i get to play with fire and wack stuff with a hammer instead of people plus i get a swell of pride when i make something  cool looking that i can give to some one i care about casue i know they will never get another one like it 

took these with my lap top so not as good  but here are the other sides

 my plan was to take three and scarf two cross ways with the third verticle  but my bucket only had 2 left so here is the cross i made for my exboss 

On 3/15/2016 at 9:53 PM, Leon Renaud said:

I just read on another site that all vacuum motors can be rheostat (Dimmer Switch) controlled. Not a week goes buy i don't see old shop vacks curb side on thrash day usually missing the hoses/attachments ,It wouldn't take much to make a nice blower out of the motor off one of these for very cheap!

 

i was wondering the same thing when i looked at the link above   one of the items was a shop vac and then it clicked all my vacs have hose ports for useing as a blower or directing air away when ive done drywalling i fire one up and put hose out the window to help keep dust down  but they get alittle hot  on the motor i will have to investigate this more