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i used one about that size back in high school worked great but like thomas said gas hog i think it had a 2" gasline on it the one thing i din't like was you really couldn't heat stuff in the middle you had to put you work down in the hole so if you wanted it heated in the middle we used a rose bud and the teacher there didn't really like he prefered the coal forge that the school made them take out and put one of these in

a lobster back bend is a conical elbows it kinda looks like a stove pipe elbow with more sections i didn't know either i had my friend mr google tell me i have seen alot of these when i was pipe fitting but they were made by the tin nockers so i don't know how to make it but when googled there was alot that came up

there are several ways people do it some heat thick blocks of steel and set them on the anvil to warm some use a magnetic block heater (for trucks in the winter ) the one i have is a kats 1500 watt also it a good idea to warm them as i have heard of and seen the aftermath some of the older anvil were they have the heel broken in the cold wether when struck cold i beleave its happens mostly with the cast ones but not sure

you metioned high carbon wire all the barbed wire i know of is low carbon and zinc plated now if you find some old used the coating may be gone i now on the old pasture fence out back most of the barbed wire is rusted now its 30+ years old though

i have jig some were that i use when bending different u bends and right anglefor u bends i try to find a pipe or tube that is the size i need i tack weld it to a 1/4 plate i have then i tack weld a piece of angle on the side to hold it in place when i bend the u its hot of course for right angle bends i have a square plate with taped holes in it 5/16 and 3/8 i bolt down a piece of angle next to abolt that is screwed into the plate the just bend it to what ever degree bend i want just repeat for the othe bend as well if i need to make multiable then i will line up two holes so that both bends can be made by screwing it the second bolt also all bends are made hot

sabre was it on sale out there they had them here in jersey for 49 bucks and if your on there mailing list you get cupons for 10% off i was thinking of doing the same as you are talking about i have some thick plow blade s i was thinking of welding on that way i can take it to pops place in ark so have an anvil there when i spend time there

now thats some interesting csi stuff there

you could try here for the cylinders www.peninsularcylinders. keep us informed with the progress

i like it been planing on making one can't aford to but so must make it thanks for the link to the plans that way don't have to buy them

that looks great like steve said what are the layers

they also make flooring out of some type of bamboo i would think that has to be hard

welcome nice job on the knives

nice i like it to good work

i like it that set up looks kinda like mine its outside hopeing some day to get that polebarn built

first welcome ifi and it looks beter then i can do

crucible out of refractory never thought that would work gone try it now

nice i like it some day maybe i'll try to make one

old tracks are all ways a great find for me to i know of some old ones i took a drive the other day out on some old trails that go by some old tracks 12 inch trees in the middle so long since used 10 min stroll i got about 30 spikes 4 plates and if i can figure how to move it there 2 30 foot lenths of track i'm guessing on the length that was either fell off a car moving them or were replaced and just left there been there probaly 50 years or more

i would contact a doctor or hospital i don'tknow in kentucky but in jersey we have info lines at the hospital i think its called here ask a nurse you can call them and they can give some advice but if you think its from the galvinized i wouldn't waint i would contact some as soon as posable .galvinized when heated will give off yellowish smoke i have welded lots of galvinized but i have resperator and still stay down wind of it

i was thinking mouse hole to

thats a biggggggg forge any way welcome to ifi

i think it could be hook that would hold some type sacks or some thing like that and it would hang from a over head trolly and move through a building i seen some thing like that years ago in i think it was a really long chicken coop

we could make them and not tell anyone anything about them and they would asume they were that old cause they were made by a blacksmith and you get some one say they found them in old barn (so you find an old barn throw them in there and have your freind go in pick them up and wala they were in an old barn ) or some other old place then sell them

me my self at an old job i cut a hole in the floor and concreted a old trailer hitch in there the all the post i made i welded a 2 inch square tube on the end you can find old hitches wetre i'm at next to nothing

well i have saved and saved every buddy gave me crap about it but last spring it paid off me and my buddy took over 30,000 pounds to the scraper when the price was up i think it was 16 dollars a hundred at the time