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well i guess i cheat for lighting mine i just use my propane roofing torch its going in a min or so i used to use the paper and wood methed and its smoke just atracted the neigbors

i have two of them with different wheels on them i have the cheap wheels they came with on one and the othe i use with very fine wheels for sharping and shaping tool bits for my lathe and they were used when i got them and i've had one for over 15 years and the other 10 years and still work and they were used when i got them and i think i paid 10 bucks a piace at the flea maket

i would say its cast to if you look under the heal you can see the parting line in the casting and i would question it shape also

i know if you are thinking about buying refractory i got 2 50 pound pails from mcmaster carr shipped to my door for like a hundred bucks and that was 3000 degree refractory

it will make nice demascus blades most chain is high carbon i would forge weld it in to a billit

really no plans my buddy and me looked at different types of furnaces and had some diferent types and then modified one he had to fit a becket burner its nothing more then a round bottom furnace about 10-12 inches round and about 12 inches deep with a 3inch thick top that swings its just like a crucible furnace just a round bottom with the burner hole on top on a down wered angle and you tilt the furnace to pore it if your looking to make a big one stephen chastain sells plans for one like we made just BIGGER its out of a 55 gallon drum that has a tilting meckanisum you can seach his name they sell the book in different places like ebay and so on just remember that casting metal is and old art and dont take much to do it and if your going to make one i would sujest using high temp refractory and not home made i just found its not worth try to cheap out in this area

do you have a regulator that tells you how much pressure is in the tank? i use a propane regulator that is just like a acetalin regulator so it shows the presure thats in there now the other thing does the guy filling the tAnk ever filled a hundred pound tank the tank takes a hundred pounds on top of the weight of the tank should weght around 170 pounds full and 70 empty

now i don't know if this goes for the 100 pounders but it should when i worked years ago filling 20 and 30s at the hardware store you had to purge the new tanks there was a screw head on the side that as you were filling the tank you opened it to purge out the air in the tank as they fill it the gas is on the bottom and pushes out the air through the purge screw did you tell the guy there it was a new tank so he knew to purge it ?

if you make a reverberatory furnace were you melt the metal in the furnace (no crucible)you can use a becket stlye burner and run diesel in it it will melt aluminum and brass and bronze with no problem we have melted 15 pounds of bronze in about an hour used a gallon of diesel for a aluminum you can melt a furnace full about 10 pounds or so in 15 min

on mine you turn it clockwise to increase and counterclockwise to decrease don't know if all regulators are the same though

i haven't made one in over 20 years but i made about 10or so back then in shop class and they were some what balanced but the tail was longer then the point so the point was made thicker then the tail to make up for the balance as for bearings in them i know 9 out of the ten i gave away are still working the 10th one got destroid in in a huricain in fl years ago the were were just over sized 1/2 hole in round stock that sat on a 1/2 rod with a taperd point

that could make a good anvil i would use its side and make a sturdy stand for it and i would hard face the side you would use and then grind it then sand it smooth and then you have a good home made anvil if you don't have the ablity to do the hard faceing you could check with a local constuction company they usally have someone or a welding service that does that stuff for them

looks real nice but the question would be what would it cost to buy and ship to the states i'm sure more than my buget could afored but i got my hammer so that will have to do for now

your welcome if you google the plans or you can go to ebay there a few guys selling them there they have some good pics if your handy at figureing how how to make things
US Knife Makers has no weld planes and sells all the stuff you would need if you don't have ability to machine the wheels

i don't know the clack model but the conversions i have done require a gas valve thats inside the machine usally buy the spool it turns the gas on and off when you pull the triger and some minor wiring and hoses but what you would need to know if the stinger the liner are set up for sheilded gas my lincolns lead is set for gas you just have to change the cup on the end my self i prefere the flux core wire cause i weldout side alot

mikey they been down for some time last i heard there working on getting them backup so anyway welcome to ifi . if you you go to top of the page and click on user cp and edit profile and list were you are located there maybe some one close by that could help tom

as for using wood some time ago i ran across a gental man selling plans for a belt grinder (i think on ebay) were he made a lot of the parts from wood i remember all the wheels were wooden and he had ran that for years with no problems he claimed

do you have a pic of the shear? that may help in get info on it

when you say wast oil is it motor oil or vegtable oil as for the vegtable oil if you filter it cut it with a quart of gas for every 5 gallons it will thin it enough to put it through a becket oil burner plug it in and go now i've never tryed to forge with that burner but we have one hooked to the furnce for casting and the pyro meter goes to 2400 and we pined it so i gets hot enough with the price of diesel i wouldn' even mess with the wast oil if you run the becket oilburner it uses about a gallon an hour a lot cheaper then propane

the sa200 is a pipe liner welder they still make a version of this welder today a 200d diesel and 200g gas not shure if gas is avaible anymore but i was a pipe fitter for a short time and they were still renting the sa200 i just sold the one i had to a buddy for 200 and he had it serviced and they said theres not much that goes bad on them

welcome jason if you got any question just ask even if you think it stupid and nothings stupid just things you haven't learned and its beter to ask if you don't know as this can be dangerus hobby were all here to learn and help good luck tom

i can say this about those 225 buzz box i have one that went through a salt water flood in 92 the fan coroded off i took the back off for air flow and it sets out side since i got it in 92 and still works just fine it needs new leads and the reason its out side is cause i don't care about it i have 3 more in the shed that are like new i guess im the lucky one i have had about 10 givin to me over the years good luck with it it will last for years

now im not sure of this but they put the inline4 in a lot of reafer units and some one told me that the motors can interchange

thats interesting i drove a tow truck for 10 years and got a AAA call for a disableld toyota truck they said it ws making noise when driving down the road as i'm winching it up on the flat bed i looked under neath it there was a deer carcuse wraped around the drive shaft wasn't much left i pulled it outand the truck drove away she said she never ran it over so i guess she was stoped and the deer thought it would be a good place to craw up into and hide

its probably cheaper if you but 4x8 sheets and cut them were im at its cheaper that way and by me they will usally make the first cut free so when i make things with sheet steel i have them cut to size