Anachronist58

I'm just a hack, but I think it's beautiful.

My former employer in Spring Valley is being auctioned off to the concrete floor this coming Tuesday.

You ought to punish yerself for going to the scrap yard by doing 15 minutes of paperwork - after all, it's only a mistermeaner!

You got it bad, man. I had to build my own to save on gas and travel time, but it never seems to be enough.

So IRTim, what are you going to do once you get to San Diego? Robert Taylor

Wow.

My favorite tool.

All are in our hearts, our thoughts, our prayers. Robert and Sheila Taylor

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nist.gov/calibrations/upload/mono180.pdf&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwieh-nR_KzNAhVMOFIKHd9SB6sQFggSMAM&sig2=1-BLu0JewkbfVvC2lGacoA&usg=AFQjCNGaSPtIg8eihcynUqRxbH0JLlogTA Section 3.1 page 12 calls out 52100 as a prolific composition, but there are many variations. If a brand and serial number are still.visible, the exact composition may then be sourced, possibly. Chromium is touted quite often as an ingredient. Published 1991 Robert Taylor

Got my 28 oz. Estwing framing hammer out of the trash - it expresses my violent yet surgical nature better than all other hammers I have swung .

Image of spec plate on motor?

Pine Valley - I lived there in the '70's, while in high school (Campo). Parents still live there. The Missus and I are in Alpine, between El Cajon and Pine Valley. Most of the good junk places are gone now.

Pac, sounds like you are no longer in San Diego? IRTim, you could definitely flip a decent anvil on me. I am not one to mince my words or backpedal. Cheers, Robert

Hello, IRTim, I live in San Diego, and have found it rather difficult to find much of anything at all out here. I just drove 281 miles last weekend to buy a decent mechanics vise. I could sure use a "second" anvil over #100, they are virtually never for sale, and then it's $6/# for well tormented Iron. I dream of owning a swage block as well, hope you are not driving out here with a mini, towing a microtrailer. I will try to get more information. A search of San Diego and Los Angeles craigslist shows three anvils only at $7-$8/pound, and no leg vises. Pac, I have not been to Bandy, but I took classes at AG&SEM in Vista, and that is a very good place. The Wheelwright and the Blacksmith shops are housed together. Robert Taylor

Just got my first look, DasWulf, pure magic! Robert Taylor

Great link, Latticino, and might I suggest to Seekers that ordering from an online source these days might be a FIRST option, rather than a last resort. I have read here of a lot of fruitless trudging in search of what used to be common items. Robert Taylor

Yep pounds per yard, as verified for my own curiosity from these four "specimens" (although at times I have been accused of talking softly to them a petting them - absurd!). Robert Taylor

OK, this is the real deal. I was told that one of my brothers was selling this for five dollars per inch, but not sure. This is bonified spring tempered copper, .007" thick. When you find exactly what you are looking for, it is going to be expensive. My brother up here in Goleta will try to source it for us if can find the spare time. If you are going to lay out the coin, be sure you are getting "sping tempered". You'd best get busy smashing pennies in the meantime. Robert Taylor

Well, tmy9966 check your thread in a little bit, I told you I would try to source something for you! I confess, on a more tragic note, I have an addiction, a vise vice. Yes I am a Viseaholic. One is never enough. This one scored today in Goleta, California, USA. Cheers, Robert Taylor

BEEFY!

That film is on my list - thanks for the peek. Ah, the micron: A confusing conversational concept. We all (in popular culture) think of it as the smallest of the small, when in fact there are 393.7 millionths of an inch to each micron making it a rather large entity. Oh joy.

tmy - I use this stuff every day, and at the job, we don't all speak a unified technical language. Alan Evans - the program which generates our tooling control documents applies leading zeroes by default. Machinists, programmers, and mechanical engineers here in the States seem not to use leading zeroes in written communication: but now I think I'll apply closer scrutiny....... In the Army, the compass rose on certain equipment was divided into 1000 mils in azimuth. Two of my electronic engineer brothers use the term 'mil' in lieu of 'thousandth'. In fact, if one were to order Capton tape, the thickness would be delineated in 'mils'. And then of course, we say "zero comma, zero five milimeters" . Robert

CORRECTION: .005 mils is five millionths of an inch. I was under the sink in abject agony when I posted the above error - that's my story. Five mils is five thousandths of an inch. That's what you want. As for the pick company, I will ask my eldest brother, the professional musician. If we are lucky, someone else already has taken on THAT headache. Robert Taylor

You are mixing terms. .001" = 1 mil, .005" = 5 mils, not .005 mils. .005 mils is five hundred millionths of an inch. You want five thousandths of an inch. I like the way my brass one is feeling, though it's not finished.

.005" is 5 mils in the United States.