orgtwister

lucky for me i know alot of people in the scrape biss. but were i'm at the towns are starting to crack down on garbage picking cause they have been loosing money due to people picking up the metal but it you ask the people if you can have whats in the garbage that usally keeps the towns at bay and some times you can score even better stuff and allways if your talking tothe people for there junk tell them what your doing they may have old stuff they don't want but they dont want to throw in the garbage either you never know what you will find i was given a 16-18 south bend one time cause it was in bad shape and he was tired of looking at it of course i got tired of looking to and traded it for stuff i could use about 2 years later but i found if some ones giving you scrape for free and most of it is useless and you only want a few things take it all keep what you want and scrape what you don't want that way maybe next time they will give other stuff i was givin some real junk about 10 years ago i took it to the scrape yard about a year later the looked for me cause he was moving and had some more for me i went over there and filled my truck with old hand tools one was a old blacksmith drill press that i sold for 200 (i allready had a nicer one)but allways keep your eyes openyou never know were you will find stuff

what i need is for the phones not to work for a week so every buddy leaves me alone so i can finish cuting out the forge parts and weld them together then i can just forge metal and say i couldn't hear the phone ringing

well now i know what to do with all those old motorcycle chains laying around that i never throw out now its just geting my butt in gear and geting the forge built

one i have used for years can fix anything with a torch and a welder and another is if your freind has a better way to do it why are you wasting my time

i'm jealous so clean neat and all the equitment i dream of owning someday

that was good philip i'm still laughing after that training video

i would keep my eyes open at the auction and make sure what you are going to bid on is good quilty cause some auctioners also bring in more stuff from other people and places that may be junk or aso that they might just try to pass of as nos or what they think you might want to hear to get you bid and like john said know what you are willing to pay and don't get into a bidding war i have seen that so many times were people get you to pay more that new just don't let it happen to you and good luck on the auction

looks great when i started years ago forging my pop wouldn't let me touch his anvil he gave me his first anvil to use it was nothing but a foot long piece of RR track but it worked now if i could remember were at on the property i put it as i don't use it any more since pop sold out to me and moved and gave me his 130# anvil but any way its great way to show people that an anvil doesn't have to be in the traditional shape of anvil to work

i used to use a cold saw were i worked some time ago they work great but the blades are like a table saw blade you have to use the right blade for the type of medal your cutting i was cutting stainless tubing for headers and the mounting plates there were different blades for the different types of stainless as all stainless is not the same the blade for 403 was not the same for 304 thats were it would get costly unless you are cutting the same grade of medal you would need to have different blades for the different types medal you are cutting or they don't last .we had them sharpend after about a month but i cut thousands of feet of tubing in that time and we didnt use any cooling on them either and if your cutting aluminum you can do that with a standerd carbide wood blade

if i had a choice i would use lpg i used a natural gas furnace in high school and my shop teacher didn't really like it (the shop origanly had a coal forge in it and state made the school remove it ) it took alot of time to get things up to temps for forging if i remember right it requierd like 2" main for the gas and you would need a hood for the amount of gas you would be burning if you think about it all comercial kichtens have to have hoods for ventalation and i think the forge would use more gas then a stove or grill

I have never had to rebuild a leg vise but i repaired an old vise years ago that i got a acme flange nut that seemed to fit the thread i bored out the backside of the origonal piece so the flange nut would fit then brazed it in if a acme nut would work for you mcmaster carr has many diferent typs of nuts that may work

go buy a aso there even go nuts on the price of them the clown on ebay is back with the russion anvils again and he just found 3 more and its a buy it now for 349.00

welcome kovacija i dont know if you have these there but clothing dryers have blowers gas furnaces have blowers on the flue pipe also older car heaters have blowerhousings i have even seen some one modify a turbo off a car and added a motor to it i think he cut one side off and hooked it to a motor when looking just think of things that blow air has some type of blower in it good luck on the forge

i seen a guy on the web make crucible furnace simalar to that he used to big coffe cans blower going into the bottom can the top one had holes drilled in the bottom and he had the crucibal and charcoal in it and he metled aluminum in it but it was good for a one time use in yours i would think of using a cast iron roaster might last longer but if you can heat it hot enough to forge it thats all that maters i have made forges out of brake dumes ,propane tanks my self i like to make a lot of my stuff to say thats mine

speaking of ebay i just lost a bid on a peter wright 334 pound it went for i think 228 my xxxx aol lost it connection when i was raising my bid with 10 min. left i guess i should have raised my max bid sooner and the anvil was only an hour from me so no shipping you can find some ebay stuff at a good price if its heavy and you must pick it up

I live by the jersey shore and its hard to find good stuff around here in estate sales or yard sales the fleamarkets you can find stuff there mostly i find handled hot cuts top swages put they all have been used for hammers and spliting mals and are in bad shape cause they didn't know what it was for or didn't care but with them if there not to bad you can fixem then its about a buck or two last week a peter wright 120 pound so he claimed it weght not to badly beat up and he only wanted 150 for it but it was more than i had as for any tongs i have found there always rare antiques so they want usally 20 and up and there the ones who are there every week with the same things for sale so i'm thinking i need to fleemarket over in pa to try to find more stuff

i got my hamburger press as a gift from harbor freight they have two types ones 2.00 and others 10.00 they have a web site i don't know if its worth geting them from there personaly i don't use it i do the same as thomas roll it in a ball squish it. you could just use a piece of stainless pipe or tube or pvc pipe of the size you want about 2 inches or so high and make a center press for it it may be hard for you cut stainless for that fit i would get (if you have them there)a plastic cutting board and make the center out of that. and get a stainless pull knob and put in the center

welcome christine i'm new here my self check out this site it has a lot great ideas tom

thomas i'm down in barnegat exit 67 grauduated from southern regional 1990 at least you got to escape this state seems like im stuck here for now anyway nice to meet ya tom

yup welder i can't blame you for selling that has crossed my mind alot here my pops moved out to ark up in the ozarks and it looks beter and beter all the time it just still have alot family aroundhere that keeps me here but if the taxes go up any more i might just end up in ark at least there you can do any thing you want but if i decied to move there i'm surethat will change also

i'm from barnegat familys been here over 300 years but its geting tough to stay around here with the high taxes were you from welder?

just would like say hello this forum is great it brings me back to when i was a little kid my father was a farrier and i used to go with him and be his helper .
and i have been doing many things over the years that i would consider type of smithing now that i have found this forum it has gave me the intrest to set a forge back up and dig out pops anvil and his old tools that he gave to me when he retired and moved away and start doing some smithing again
thanks for sparking my intrest again in this almost lost trade tom