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me to i've only seen copper and i have some really old trackes nere me so old theres 12inch trees in the middle

now i'm not an expert or even close but isn't cast steel and cast iron totaly different i have worked with both . old harley frames the joints were cast steel not cast iron so whats the right time frame as i think there would be a difference if any one knows

a round here a lot of scrap yards are car scrap yards they take all metal from cars washers so onand so forth the yards here have been charging a dollar for insurance or some thing like that to enter i would check with auto and truck repair shops offer them a few bucks for the old scrap most around here give it to some one that picks it up from them a box of doughnuts or coffie can go a long way when trying to get your foot in the door

what kind of oil is it ?or the specs that could help

i like it wonder if it would work with hickory nuts consider the idea stolen i gota try it on hickory nuts

i'm not sure of that lock but most of them are case hardened just like the club steering wheel lock i was working as arecover agent and if you grab them in the middle (if your strong enough)and the end of the handle and pull in the midle and push on handle well i can bed them and pull the off it will crack the harding in the middle

you should have sold it about 6 months ago when was high then it may have brought a few hundred i just scraped a commercial dish washer striped it to just 304 stainless it weighed 250 i got 25 bucks i would hold onto it and either make some thing out of it or if you know any machine shops that turn stainless you could tell them what you have and they may need it some day and could bring you more for it

its used on wells

the iron in thermite is positive charged iron witch is made by positively charging the iron in a water solution then after it rusted they scrap it off about 15 miles from there is a place that makes it i used to pick up hazerdest wast at the facility and you cannot ignite it with a spark you need the ribion fuse to ignite it you can check ebay they sell every thing on there to make it the main use the use it around here is they weld train tracks joints with it using a mold around the track thermite when it does ignite is very interesting i have seen it burn through a hood of a junk car stright through the motor and to the ground

i don't know as to all i would stay away from those china ones the few i have are cast with some harden jaws that round off easy and i have broken the handles in half as thats why i no that one was cast

bill what are using for fuel in your furnace is propane or oil? i like the idea of the keg you don't have to worry much about rusting out as to being stainless do you melt bronze in it or just aluminum ? any way it looks great i may steal the idea of the keg on my next one i build

you would need a crucible to melt iron when melting iron use borax for flux and molding sand to make a sand mold the best is to check out some of the casting sites for different ways they doit most tell you you need a cupala furnace but the guy at BackyardMetalcasting.com has melted castiron in a crucible with a wast oil furnace i would check him out and use some of his ideas as he has tried a lot of ideas that many said would not work and it does work he made a furnace out of a flue pipe and concret and it lasted for over a year any way i would check out a few different places on casting and go from there

me personaly would say its cheaper to make it but i have good resorces for the stuff to make one most likely a few if i wanted i have a vast colection of stuff so i woldn't need to buy much to make it so in my opionin it would depend on your resorces most that i have seen you could buy that were a good price the shipping was a lot of course it also depends on how much money do have to spend me i need all my money to pay the bills so i would make it my self i also have welders a lathe and the use of a milling machine to make things easyer i would figure out the cost of all the stuff you would need to make the type you want figure your time then compare the cost and see what works best for you

i have cast many aluminum items for restoring motorcycles with a friend of mine i your going cast aluminum you need to use cast aluminum if you use cans it wont cast well you need to use cast aluminum you can mix in some cans but pure aluminum doesn't cast if it was me scrap the cans and get some scrap cast aluminum when you reliese what cast is out there there is plenty transmision cases intakemanifolds if you need other info on this i have done alot message me

well now i see after checking the rest of the pages i didn't see before

well Aaron i my self will be sratching my head try to figure out the drill press and lathe part of this patent now i have 3 lathes 4 drill presses and several vises and its got me stumped

i see what you guys are saying what i ment by a point should have been the ones dad used as a farrier had like a 45deg edge on them but it really just maters if it works for you

nice work the hoof pick would need a final sharping on the point the crude that gets stuck in the hoofs gets preaty hard and you'll need to getthe hook through it to pull it out atleast where i'm at it it gets really packed in there again nice work

orgtwister; it comes from when i was moving heavy equitment the lowboys i was driving avaraged about 120 thousand pounds to about 150 thousand and i had twisted many drive shafts from being so heavy (the truck really wasn't designed for that weight)the drive shaft shop started calling me twister and its been my cb radio handle for 20 years so when i started online i could never get twister as a name cause of slang meanings so i whent with orgtwister which is short for orgional twister and have been using it on many sites for 10 years or so

thats a nice find when i was about 9or 10 they took up the train tracks at the end of my road and i hauled about 5 loads of spikes home in a big raido flyer wagon now if i could remember were on the property i left them that was about 27 years ago i'm sure there here some were though

nice shes perty

its looks like the trenton we had in school but that was a long time ago and i'm not a expert on this either and it looks like a tool plate welded on there as for my anvil its only about 30-40 years old it came painted green new from the factory when dad had bought it but it may been painted as it camr from sewden i think is what it says

Well i don't have any blacksmith related tats but the ones i have are one offs i would keepmy eye out for pic of some thing interesting or pics or drawings any good tatoo artiest should be able to draw you up some thing with a few pics and ideas of what you are looking for if they say they can't draw some thing up i would leave cause they aren't any good and one more a good tatoo guy would want to work with you on desighning a tatoo you would be pround to show off cause thats advertising for him
i don't how it is down under but here i would only go to shops that have been open for some times and ask around with friends that have ink if theres any one they can recomend good luck and if you get some thing give us a pic so we can see

one thing you should remember that most punches you find localy are not for punching hot steel the best i have seen are made of h13 toolsteel which are made for hot steel

well chris for safty reasons you shouldn't use one but i have done this a hundred times with out any problems i take the valve out fill with water untill it over flows and let it sit then dump it out and cut it up i like to use a jigsaw with a metal blade just drill a hole and start there it makes a nice cut in my opinion i use the tanks for all kinds of stuff and they are plentyfull since they changed over to the new tanks a few years ago and i have 10 or so around just wainting for my next project