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where abouts was it posted please?

well, if ya only gonna make one, you may as well do it nice. this one and that dragon forge, are awesome.

yep.....just waiting for lotto.. big aircon b/smith shop/foundry

ill take two thanks...

and i know what ypou mean about the rivet backing, makes the job instantly easy by having the right tools.

i know what you mean...excuse the scale, as John B said , by rotating as you strike..

what he said,,prepare the outer to perfect and the inner same, chill one and clean heat the outer and dont deform the hole on th way in.

someone distract him and we'll run off withem

i never have a prob with the twist method, very usefull and quick to make tongs, i stock 25x10 for them and make most of my general tongs out of the method. I did find if you try to hide the twist too hard you end up with a weaker jaw to hinge transition, so now i dont try. I also dont notch to half way on the jaw side, say 2/5 of the way using the edge of the anvil, right heat to twist, re heat to seat, then leave it. I jave a pair of the same for 30.5mm bar x 200mm and have had no troubles yet. i think alot of the proportion trouble is from using a smaller or too small a stock for this method.

love it, that would be the winter jalopy, the summer one would be air conditioned?

grubs! my wife and I hope your lady is fine or at least fines up. when they are found, it'd almost be worth a week off to visit, and return their.... fervour bestest wishes we can think of, for her recovery and healing, and your rage im sure i cant imagine.

call me a cheat....i wait till the cans empty and just crush the can

The coke i sell is from illawarra NSW. if it is not that coke, he was selling, it would be fraudulent i guess on his behalf. flickr is copyright, any one can view. its how i get my pics from the phone to the web. i dont advertise the flickr thing, unless i want someone to see a pick or something i made etc. viewd times would be right. from flickr i move to my site near when i added pics for coke. coke you cant forge with? i have heard that before. mine you roll your smoke at the wrong time and you got slush. sparkly slush..in fact im gonna send a barrel to the old man in perth for him and the club he is in there, BAWA, as he sais no good coke in west.aus. Just rang Oscar from the site in question. I dont think he knows what the webmaster did. and its not the same coke he sells. seemed friendly enough about it, no apology..lol. German arrogance.. thankyou all for the input, mike . .

if they are bad knives, use someone elses mark, if they are good knives, i think the swedish guy with the cute mustache could help you. he makes them ive read. Grant. im running now.....lol

there is a funny side to this.... not funny side, wiring 3 ph to s/ph ,,,you are lucky it only hurt the tool. (i have heard of worse)ive been bit by live chassi tv's etc with 240 (everyones different, for me 240 like sticking your hand in a fan), BUT! 415 potential once..someone elses wiring, it hurt. please, buy a carton of beer ( or other such pick up tools for tradespersons ) and at least bribe the knowledge from someone who knows, before you next attempt a thought of screwdrivers to electrical bits. (its what i do). officially, hire the sparky to keep the magic smoke from being vented from you.

"imitation is flattery". I thought that, and will probably not even email them about it(not over a pic of coke anyway), it has, to my knowledge, not happened to me before. legal action for a return of maybe 6 cents, in a bank with high interest!, i got it made!.....lol

when i first got into metal, i got to know an old blacksmith/engineer. retired and in his eighties he looked over his back fence into my yard to see what the hammering was. making tongs, i said, or trying to...his reply was, why dont you mig some reins on a big set of pliers?. i like the forge for its basics, no electricity, no problem. people like the results from the forge. i think alot of the old blokes, as said by someone here earlier, would wonder why we still forge, when technology today with all its wonder, can reproduce some of what comes off a forge. and for about $50 to $100 you can make a forge, and the right bloke can make what comes off a forge, look like it was produced my a million dollar machine. me, I dont know why there are not more forges in back yard sheds. i think the advance in technology and the dependance on it, has put alot of us backward.

I was flicking through the pages of the giant interweb book on the computer this morning, and stumbled on a site that, like mine had coke for sale. Like my site, the site in question had a small picture from my camera of said coke for sale that.... wait...who's photo? my photo, my site, http://www.brisbaneblacksmithsupplies.com/cokecharcoal the site in question using my copyright photo...bottom right hand corner... http://www.blacksmithing.com.au/forsale.php I dont mind that much, I just thought the whole copyright thing, would indicate that permission be sought for use or payment/something offered for use of said copyright material. like a copyright dvd? I love looking at the millions of blacksmith pictures on the the internet, i marvel at the many items, skill, finishes, and diverse ideas, click on them and save, but use as my own, without asking?...never! am i wrong?, is it not my photo, and should they have asked if it is my picture? just a thought of the morning.

plumbing was reinforced garden hose ( and wasnt on it yet), washing machine water solenoids for the air solenoids and a micro for the foot switch. it worked about 1000 strokes or so before i had to replace the the rubber seal inside the ram, as i didnt hone the inside of the fence post. almost no bolts, everything was tacked and welded. total cost was welding rods, and 3 or four air nipples, the rest wast scrap, to its first running. after that an air foot switch cost me about $100, and couldnt really be used without the full on level of plumbing required for a normal hammer, and i didnt have the funding at the time to complete its transformation.

yep, the old man told me about that, the old machinery type seals and oil drippers etc, so i jammed twisted old string doped with grease and and sandwitched it around the piston shaft. it worked for me. and as for is it worth having one....this was about 2 and a half hrs this morning, two pair of double pick up reins 80 cm tot and two hammers, and a piece of spring flattened for a blade billet oh and the hammer drift tool thing about foot and a half from 32mm 4140... probly slow for some of the blokes on here but it kept me going, and i didnt have to lift a hammer.....yet...lol

i cut em up for mozzi coil holders, the quench thing, tool holder, circular bolted leg clamps on the old forge, shims for the blower mount on the forge, edge liners and stiffening in leather work, charcoal and coke powder dipping, reflector type candle holders, a replacement circular valve on top of the head of a air compressor, billy tins and cooking, cockroach traps, gasket for a fuel pump on the landrover, patterns for small parts, bigger ones for charcoal cookers, money boxes for small change, ashtrays...yada yada. amazing how a pair of scissors or tin snips can transform the humble tin.

all good, looking at http://www.google.com/patents?id=lF5kAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=patent+707246&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=patent%20707246&f=true, easy enough, need a bigger lung in diam than the cylinder and arrange adjustable stroke on the lung to tune. valving no probs if any. large area lung keeps the heat down by the looks, if you are capable of the mechanics, and can do the large hosing ie: re hole the ram for flow and volume, and housing, give it a go. Just do it till you get it right. and again on the worth having one? yep. or no one would want one. pair of tongs in a few mins? more to the point, 5 to 7 sets of tongs in an hour? i made a mechanical hammer from scrap, the only thing i had to buy was the bearing ends. if you do the diff of a car thing, you wont even need them. if you have kerb side dump outs, get an old washing machine for motor etc. the sooner you make it the better. you will love it, keep in mind in your design,,,the die holders and sets. I would encourage anyone with common sense and respect of safety to have a go... (ya dont want heavy bits flying around the shed if it comes apart, if your the type that injures yourself at the thought of a hammer or drill or screwdriver, or have lost a finger with a hand hack saw....give it a miss.)

eh? The first hammer i made, the ram was made from scratch, 3 inch fence post, un honed cylinder, greased rope seals etc...and garage door spring return. it was fun. and even that one, single blow, washing machine water solenoids for air control and all...easy put a taper in 40mm bar. The one i have now is auto, foot pressure sensative, etc, and not self contained. the ram is 50mm x about 300 or so, and i have more air than it, the 7" air grinder and the 80 amp plasma can suck at the same time, coming from a 3 lung 10hp compressor. I did not make the one I have at the moment at the shed. as far as are they worth having?...oh yeah!. you get it working right and you will wonder what you did without it. you will need a gas furnace or have good fire control to keep up with the hammer. as for numbers, ratios and the like, i know they exist, like hammer to anvil and cylinder , stroke, etc, but im afraid i just do it, if it blows up then i ask.. maybe. For self contained, I would ask if any one has pulled their anyang or similar apart, and ask them the comparison at a glance or get some rough numbers from two or three blacksmiths that have. id have to have a look at one to see how it works. I would probably ask Moony or Dale Russell.. sorry i could not help, not with a self contained anyang type any way.

if the blokes there were happy working for what ever, what agreement was made when they started workin there? why did the union have a say? is everyone else in the museum a union member? why were they singled out? self inflicted? why did the museum let them go? as in forced by the union or pressure? or a money thing? if the union owns the site then i suppose thats it then. if the workers/volunteers brought the union idea in to increase their wages, then it didnt work. im happy to write a letter, if it wasnt self inflicted backire..

looks great actually..