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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

welcome jeremy and i'm myself fairly new here but i have been forgeing on and off for 25 years or so but when i found this site it go me to dig out the old stuff and start using it again but i would say it an obcesion that i have with making things out of nothing with metal well as usaual i got carried away on this welcome theres so muchinfo here and every one is great with helping here and the only problem i have here is i sign in at night and before i know it its 4-5 hours later and now i have to get up in a few any way welcome

i see what you mean sabre i had my pipe conected to a hood over the old forge i made many years ago so the hood may have took most of the heat and that was made out of a old tank that was steel that i painted with stove paint

i have used it before with no problems as for a side draft i have never used it for that the galvinized is not that thick on the mine rusted out after a few years and as long as chimney is flowing air it shouldn't get hot enough to burn the galv. off

theres one thing that i havn't seen metioned now i'm not a machinest but i do have 3 lathes and i have ran them cw when needed but when running them cw if you were able to jam the cutting bit theres is the possablity of unscrewing the chuck off the head stock i did hear of some one doing it with one of those china 7x12 lathes the had got it at a tool sale and i guess the chuck wasn't tight and they turned it on in cw and it flew off and hit him not shore of how or why i just got the info from my buddy who is tsr for the company that sold it

i worked in a scrap yard years ago and we used Acetylene Regulators and hoses all the time (on propane)new and used the hoses did get spongy after some time but usally ended up cuting hose befor any problems and some of the regulators hook right up to the tank butmy Acetylene Regulator is for the big acetylene tanks so maybe thats why they fit never had a problem

welcome ken

for the pipe i would check around were there my be building large industrail buildings or cheack with any companys that do pipe fitting or if you see guys that are working on pipe work they may have some scrap pieces you could throw them a few bucks for it my friends in the pipe fitters union and he can get me pipe here and there when i need it so if you know any one in the union you could ask them for plate i would check scrap yards that take equtiment like fork lifts the forks at the base are about 2-4 inches depends on the size of the forks and for rail theres a guy on ebay that sells it but i have some i have had for years if you know some one that works for a rail road they my have some one they know there and may have a pieace laying around

well me personaly i would't want my anvil atached to any thing that when i'm hitting on it it could roll and also it would put alot of stress on the casters now if your trying to make it so you can move it around when needed i would look at some of those wood working table saw wheel kits were when you goto move it on one side theres an ajustment caster the you would lower with a screw knob and in turn would raise it on an angle and make the other wheels touch the ground and then you could roll it were you need

like frosty said i would try a sparking test on them i have cut alot of old rivets off from that era and they were mild steel i did alot of scraping in the past and cut alot off with a air chisel

well not sure what you have there alot are talking about rebar but a few of the places i have worked that was steel buliding had tie bars in them some were galvinized and some were what looked like zinc plated none of them looked like mild steel make sure what you have before you put heat to it you don't want a trip to the hospital

great haul were i live every thing would have been stolen ,scraped so on and so forth nothing is safe here nj any nice haul good luckwith every thing

630 miles thats a far ride to get it what is the price if you go the 630 and pickit up and how much can you haul at one time basicly what i'm saying is what the total cost by time you would get the bulk coal back to your place i would then figure if its worth it or not but i'm with you i cant find good coal here realy either but i still have a few bages left from dad from 30 years ago as he was farrier but i' still looking i'm only about 150 miles from the pa mines and i have friends who drive dump trailers who have said they could bring it in for me when there runing back home empty cheap just don't have a place to put it right now i got carried way on this basicly just figure if its worth the trip or not

for punches i would just order some h-13 from speedy metals a 12 inch pieace of 1/2 is like 4.50 i think that would be the best thing to use

well i don't know persay if they would make a good punch or any thing else i can tell you you can't weld them if you do i makes them week and they break off i worked at a place were they insisted on welding them against my concern on a pieace of equitment and like i told them they all broke off so then we just ground down the welds and bolted it back to getther and it worked fine

it looks like a real good deal for 132 bucks if its not a big deal for you to run down there and pickit up if i was in the area i would buy it to good luck with it happy hammmering

what happen to the days you could leave your house open and the keys in your car just in case your neibors needed something you can't trust any one any more i hade thousands of dollars worth of tools stolen a few years ago i got alot back by going down to cash converters (pawn shop)i had reported a few things that i new right off that were missing to find that there was 3 times the amount of my stuff there so i calledthe pd and they came and confiscated all my stuff back took to weeks for the investagation to get my stuff back and then they tell me it was my little sister and her friends well that got her 4 years the store had her charged and this goes to show that trust know one around what you charish

thanks for the info natedj i'll check them out and maybe my next check i'll see if i got extra and order one

put me down for one glenn thanks tom

thats great glenn thanks for the info i'll be looking forward to it .you do a great job with the IFI forum site again thanks tom

to remove the bolt first question is there part of it sticking out if theres a little i would get a washer that fits tight around the bolt then weld the washer to the bolt then weld a nut to the washer then let it cool then heat the bracket and try to loosen the broken bolt thats if you have a welder or the ablity to weld i have removed alot broken bolts this way even a broken tap once

does any here know were in the states we can find the SIKAFLEX 11 FC glue i have some handled punches coming in that i have to put handles in and that sounds a lot better then wedges i have allways used and i would like to try it