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stovestoker

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  1. I can try, I will get more pics when I go pick up my RR track
  2. So on my lunch brake I take my RR track to a one of the only true machine shops left in my town. The shop was opened in 1936 and has been passed to the current owner Don. I wanted to see if he could surface the track for me so I would have a nice machined flat face on my track. I started asking him about some of his machines and on a tour around the shop I found this beauty. the anvil stand is on a cast iron piston! It blew my mind, it was so very cool. I am in the process of trying to buy it from him as he is sadly closing the shop soon. Maybe someone can help me identify it and help with a fair price to offer him.
  3. Yeah I am waiting for one of those teeth to sheer off. I am going to try to avoid hitting the head on potential fracture points. I don't plan on doing any heavy pounding starting out. I am making bottle openers, meat turners and small hooks. I will be getting a proper anvil soon.
  4. the local lumber yard sales heavy ok beams for oil field use. I thought about going that direction. Cost was a factor. Its about 17 a board foot. I probably scrounged something out of wood, but I like the steel option.
  5. I worked on the forge a bit this weekend. I still need to shore it up with some bracing. It may be too tall. Not sure if there is a recommended height or not.
  6. Ok Some suggested to mount this thing to a stump and get to work. Well here in west Texas large stumps don't grow on trees. That being said I have been scrounging the scrap yard for the last three weeks looking for something to use as a stand. The first pic shows how it looked when I brought it home, the base was cracked but functional. I thought I would mount it as it was but I couldn't find a stump tall enough or big around enough. I came across a large truck brake drum and truck wheel hub. I set the wheel hub on top of the drum and all the holes lined up. going to run some bolts through it to secure them together. I needed a way to set the anvil head in the hole of the wheel hub without falling through. the outside of the hub had a beveled cup for wheel bearings. Looking at the collar on the original part I got with Anvil-ish I thought I could cut the collar down into a shim. There is a part of the shim not shown. Its a small key shim that traps the stem. pics 1-2 Once I got the shim ground down I welded it into the cup. Its only welded to keep the anvil head from shifting out of level. Downward force is trapped by the shim against the bevel of the wheel hub. Pics 3-4 the final pic of it is a little deceptive. The anvil face is not as big as it appears. I will post better pics. After I get it cleaned up and painted. I need to bolt it together. The whole thing weighs about 250 pounds.
  7. Well I looked at this thing again last night. I think it is case hardened. the shiny part is about 3000sths thick. that part is hard as hell. The end that is chewed and the core is exposed I think is pretty high carbon steel. I put the grinder on the core and sparks flew. I was going to use this as a horn but now I'm not sure.
  8. Sorry for the delay in getting a couple more pics. enjoying this game of" name that what's it" Thanks for playing. Part of the enjoyment of the scrapyard is pondering what kind of life all that steel had before it arrived there.
  9. I picked this up yesterday on my weekly scrapyard scrounging session. I thought maybe I could shape it into a horn, as I am using a stump anvil. The thing is pretty dense, just wondering what it might be or where it came from. there are 3 or 4 more in the pile.
  10. great info fellas. VaughnT, I would ship you a length to play with but it may cost a small fortune to do so.
  11. Is it isolated to the outside of the steel. does it burn off? Just wondering if a respirator is necessary when using sucker rod. Is there a visual way to identify contaminated steel? Or just a crapshoot as to what out pick out of the pile?
  12. If there was a "like" button I would give you a bunch of thumbs up. I love the ingenuity. Goes to show what some determination and hard work will get you. great job!
  13. Sucker rod is used on a pump jack. Those rocking horse looking things in oil fields that bring the oil to the surface after the well as been dug. They connect together via a threaded end. They go all the way down the well shaft, at the bottom is a suction cup of sorts. so as the pump jack goes up it pulls oil to the top of the tube. usualy they come in 30 foot sections. Very flexible as they have to travel a long way, depending how deep the well hole is.
  14. Posting a couple pics for fun. I was told that since I live in West Texas that I should look for sucker rods as they are decent steel. Plenty at my local scrap yard Maybe folks can give me some ideas or examples of things they have made with them.
  15. well my stump anvil is good to go. Think I might work a flat area on to it like Dan C
  16. WOW! that's a confabulation if I have ever seen one. But hey if it works..... think this is a ( why didn't I think of that? situation) going to hack off a piece this evening.
  17. Well I have a stump anvil, but it does not have a flat edge. I was thinking I could get bigger edge in this manner. But mostly I just wanted to know if the slab could be hardened in this manner. even if I didn't weld it to the track.
  18. I have a piece of RR track and a 7x 12x 1 chunk of steel. I don't have a proper anvil at this time so I was going to weld the 1 inch chunk of steel on top of the piece of track. Using the track as a base and horn. when I hit both with a cutting wheel they throw about the same amount of spark ( don't know what kind of steel the big chunk is) the RR track throws a little darker yellow spark. Can I bring the chunk of plate steel up to non magnetic and quench to make it a hardened top plate for the face? Or am I simply wasting my time trying to polish a xxxx?
  19. I built this in my buddy's shop. He has a nice plasma cutter and his welder is much better than mine. Plus it's inside. any who, when I took it off the bench and set it on the ground his response was " oh I didn't know you were building a coffee table". My response was yes, but you can roast marsh mellows on this baby! cracked my self up with that one. It does remind my of a couple izakayas I have been in, in Japan. They have a charcoal brazier in the center of the table. Then they bring you raw shrimp, or then strips of beef. Nothing like drinking cold beer and grilling at your own table. If all else fails I'll use it for that!
  20. VaughnT, your saying leave it with the big juicy side up right? im thinking I can work with it as is without changing it. ill probably keep my piece of track next to it for an edge
  21. I tripped over a whole stack of them yesterday.I may roll out there tomorrow and see what I can come away with. thanks for the info.
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