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VaughnT, if you have trouble finding 1"-8 nuts, or threaded rod, for that matter, I will mail you some. Or you could check MSC or McMaster. Great design Jonah k, and Dave51B makes a great point about adding a flip lip, whilst I am feeling a simple return spring from the hardie side. Robert Taylor

Das Wulf, you have DEFINITELY run short of creativity - NOT!! The images tell the story - sweet!

Very Very nicely done!

Thanks Mr Furer. The chart linked below shows Manganese Oxide as a slag former in a few flux coatings - I expect that a number of the hard-facing electrodes are high in Manganese, and of course, base metals designed for abrasion / impact resistance. http://www.nbent.com/table.htm Robert Taylor

In the case of naturally occurring minerals - sourced, graded, and sized - there can be a wide range of mechanical properties presenting in the finished product. The same is likely true, to perhaps a lesser extent, for engineered abrasives, all processes and batches not being equal.

Yep, with the air motor, when things start to get away from you, you can abort fairly easily, while with the other, once it starts to get away from you, more often than not, it will have its way with you. Not good when it throws your project back at you at 88 ft/sec, or sucks your arm in. Don't cross the Rubicon.

Sprockets Sprockets Sprockets Sprockets! So Delicious! The Pedants are correct - they are not sprockets, not technically, and perhaps not even poetically, and I would not wish to contaminate vernacular on an international venue such as this. So cheers to the Fact Checkers far and wide, I will not blame Los Angeles driving fatigue as an excuse. Alan Evans, no Wierdo Alarm sounding here - only the pleasure of our acquaintance. JHCC, I will take a blick at deine tanzenspiel link when I get back to the motel room - should be fascinating! SLAG, ref film, et al, that is some technical "magic". Ian, good to see you posting! These two gear wheels may make their way into a monosail rock crusher currently fermenting in my brain. Robert Taylor Sprockets dance - they got it meshing menschen doch!

Thanks Das, what a strange fellow the seller is - a half acre of all sorts of Very interesting stuff, I am sure I could have found more, but he would not let me look, even though he claims that he has to get rid of everything, and it is all for sale. You've got your sprockets now, run along, run along. Mrs Taylor's Weirdo Alarm was ringing They are beauties though, 15" across.

This thead is Boss - wish I had time to read each new entry. I'm up in Ventura with Mrs Taylor, working vacation. Went to buy an anvil, all sold out but for two, and out of my price range. Picked up these two sprockets for the Mrs, though, gonna make her a bit of steam punk .

Below illustrates a matter of scale - a Columbian 604, and a no-name jewellers vise with built-in anvil. The jewellers vise is of exceptional quality, and I can go at it with my 4 oz ball pien all day. The Columbian has a split segment of locomotive rail between its teeth and is quite happy under heavier work. We always sacrifice durability when applying force to mechanical assemblies, but some of these older tools can really take a whoopin. Robert Taylor

I like the sound of that anvil face taking the teeth off of his rusty old file....... I wonder how long his friend will have to endure the stink of the paint burning off.

NFLIFe, my question is, would you consider *this* to be a decent anvil? Could you post a picture of the less-than-satisfactory anvil that you now have? Robert Taylor

Both companies have been in business for many years (Jet started out making hoists around 1958, Harrington, in 1867). I own a used Harrington one ton lever hoist (come-along) and it's a pleasure to use. I understand that Jet is used in an industrial setting, and thus must conform to rigorous standards. Not quite a direct answer........ Robert Taylor

and tell that compulsive gambler not to pull that handle!

That's a really good lookin porkypin!

Das Wulf, the more I imagine the crooked option, it just seems natural, and most appealing.

"I Forge Iron, Technology and Metallurgy Enthusiasts Group", hmmmmm....... So Ausfire, you'd like something sounds a bit more roguish, eh? I'm thinking.... At the rate of your contributions, SLAG, I'll have to be reincarnated to catch up! (Still on Carbonyls). Wishing you all a Merry Christmas, with much coal! Robert and Sheila Taylor

Could you not notch it a bit at the joint and hang it from the center? Pretty, by the way. That might look good hung crooked as well.

Thanks SLAG, I look forward to reading that, hope it pans out! And a Merry Christmas to you as well! Robert and Sheila Taylor

Well, at least those kids are off the street and staying out of trouble - and by the way, I am most times up for some serious axe picking .

I guess we can beat back the Reaper for a spell, anyways........

Delightful, Theo. Reminds me of a polished slab of fossil snail conglomerate. Makes me visualize some snail-like wood screw damascus. Kudos to your photographer - really showcases your attention to theme and detail. Robert Taylor

I see that you are an excellent judge of character and have rightly called my pals out as hateful unlearned trolls - You can do much better than with the likes of us - so go suit yourself, mfkerr. Feel free to mute my posts, as I too am a negative, ignorant hater, Robert Taylor

I would rather have clinkers and ashes than that awful nasty coal <wink>.