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Sorry I Forgot There Is An Upper Part Too To Hold The 3 Bars Together For The Weld

Jr is right !!!!!!! it is a jig to hold together in 120 DEGREES FOR WELDING 3 SNUBED ROUND TAPERES STEEL TO MAKE IT READY FOR A FUL ONE TURN TWIST FOR A DINING TABLE FOOT. HOFI

Hello Strine U Wrote In The First Paragraf '' On The First Heat I Forge The Point And ''maybe'' Achive A Theired Of The Taper. Means That U Put It More Times In The Fire To Finish . Again May Be I Did Not Understand. Because I Learn All My Life I ''ll Love To Learn Your System ,taech Me And Show Me.if It Is Better And Eassier Than Mine I''ll Go With It And Teach It To The Others. U Realy Think That I ''calculate '' All The Time It Was Only To Explain The Simplicity Of The System The Moment U Understand It It Goes Outomaticaly. The Phrase - Each To His Own Eh ? - Privents U From Learning Something New. And To My Opimion It Is Not A Nice Way To Put It I Want To Learn Your System Do U Want To Learn Mine ? Hofi

STRIN U MISSUNDERSTOOD ME!!! not eassy to explain the system with a mail not only because of my poor english. ican forge 8-10'' long point on 5/16-3/8'' round or squer steel in one heat! I NEVER STSRT A TAPER OR A POINT WITH THE FAR END (THE POINT) I ALWAYS START IN SIDE AND MOVE FORGING TO THE POINT. THE LENGTH OF THE POINT IS VERY EASSY TO CALCULATE BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THE RATIO BETWEEN THE CONE IN THE CILINDER AND THE CILINDER IS 1/3 TO 2/3 IF I WANT TO FOEGE A 6'' PONT I LEAN THE STEEL ON THE FAR A BIT ROUNDED ADGE OF THE ANVIL 2'' IN THE AIR IN THE ''RIGHT ANGLE AND FORGE WITH THE HAMMER WHEN THE HAMMER IS A 1/3 OUT OFF THE ADGE OF THE ANVIL AND TURN THE STEEL 90 DEGREES EVERY 2 SWINGS OF THE HAMMER TO THE SAME DITECTION AND PULL THE STEEL TO MY SIDE EVERY TURN IN THIS SYSTEM THE ANVIL AND THE ''MANAGING ''HAND ARE MAKING THE ''JOB''. BY GORGING THIS WAY U DUBLE FULLER THE STEEL U MOOVE THE METAL FAST CREAT HIGH FRICTION AND HEAT AND U FINISH THE 6-7-8 10'' POINT IN ONE HEAT!!!! SOME TIMES U CAN NOT GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ANVIL AND U MUST FORGE THE POINT ''ON'' THE ANVILE FACE, THEN COMES SYSTEM NO 2 AGAIN I START FROM THE INNER SIDE AND NOT FROM THE POINT. LET US SAY I WANT TO FORGE A 41/2'' LONG POINT I FORGE WITH THE HAMMER TILTED 40 DEGREES OUT 11/2'' FROM THE END OF THE STEEL AND FORGE IN THIS PLACE AND SOME THING VERY INTERESTING IS HAPPENIN BECAUSE OF THE REACTION THE FAR END OF THE STEEL WIL COME UP (RAISE) from the anvil 1/32'' and when u forge again after u turend it 90 degrees it will rais again and so on until u finish the point or the ''punch'' in this way also the steel n e v e rb tuches the anvil and u can forge for a long time creat and priserv the heat for a long time. hope it is clear this time HOFI

ALAN IF U WAnt to forge a pouint or a punch u have to hold the steel on the anvil with your managing hand when the angle of the steel to the anvil is half of the futuer angle , means if the futuer angle is 5 degrees u hold it 2,5 degrees from the anvil . doing that and whil forging u turn the managing hand 90 degrees back and force all the way down to the end of the taper u will get a tapered squer. u have to decide before what will be the OD of the punch. we know that the squer i volume is having 22,3 % more matirial then the round so u must forge it in a way that the squer on the end of the punch will be smaller accordingly then when u forge thw corners to 8 then to 16 and rounr it with the hammer u get the pland OD. USUALLY I forge it a bit bigger and the grind on the belt grinder to the finel OD. HOPE IT WILL HELP. HOFI

VERY VERY NICE PHOTO Jr nice people too !!!!! HOFI

thanks a lot to every one on the IFI JUST RETUREND YESTERDAY FROM germany AND TOK MY SON BACK HOME HE IS BETTER NOW AND HOPE FOR THE FUTUER TOO !!!!!!!!! THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH AGAIN FROM ALL MY HURT HOFI

Forgot To Say That I Never Use Glove On The Forging Hand Hofi

my hendles are highly polished !!! the handle is rounded rectangl conical outwards and i donot ''HOLD it i ''GUID '' it . once a year i sprey the handle with WD40 and i forge hours long without any problam. HOFI

It dependes on the ASH CONTENT of the fuel (coke-coal) if between 5-7 % the cleaning interval is 3-4 hors. once i had a spcial shipment that i cleand onlt once a day-- very little ash content hofi

As Some Of You Reffered To Me And My System. I Just Want To Make It More Clear. My Anvil Hight Is 321/2'' (830 Mm) Which Is My Knuckle Hight. This Gives Me The Possibility To Stand Straight Up Not Bending My Back And Get Max Swing For The Hammer And With This Max Valocity And Forging Power And No Damaging My Back. It Is Also Very Interesting That The 32 1/2'' Hight Is Sutable For 85% Of The People, Leonardo De Vinci In The Medivle Time Found Allready Withe The ''vitrubien Man '' That Eaven If The Hight Of The People Is Different When You Put Your Hands Down They Will Meet In The Same Place With Very Little Difference. In My School ''all'' The Anvils Are In The Same Hight Only If Some One Have Longer Legs Or Shorter Hands Or The Eye Sight And The Glases Are Not In Focus Then I Change The Hight With Pieces Of Wood. And For The Knuckles-- With The Way I Hold -guide The Hammer I Never Never Touch My Knuckles With The Anvil It Maks No Different What Hight Of Anvil It Is (see My Bp On How To Hold The Hammer) And I Was Forging And Demonstrating On Many.

Sorry On The Rhythem Of The Forging On The Anvil Hofi

The Composer Mahler In His 6th Symphony Took Out The Drums And Broght In 6 Anvils Insted To Drum On!!!!!!!!! There Are Around 1450 Musik Peices That Are Based On The Rhythem Hofi

to days FUTUER is not as it was in the PAST