turbo7

They're too lazy to grab a bit scrap mate.

My oath it can be a couples type hobbie, even better. Do you realise a 200lb anvil is a lot to shift.

Good work mate

Welcome to IFI mate, read this site.

Haha I'm not as well schooled as you are Charles. Grin.

Horses can be "one sided", comes from people only handling them on the "on" side usually, very rarely is a horse one sided on the "off" side. Comes from bad horsemanship.

One thing that really helps a chimney draw is having larger area of pipe and smaller area of inlet. Hood and side screens will help outdoors especially when using charcoal.

It looks to me as if the bottom of the chimney is surrounded by the bosch? If that is the case wont this heat your cooling water? To a point where the water wont be doing any cooling at all. Why not just go with a sacrifical tuyere instead of a water-cooled one?

The legs need better bracing than just nailed in at the top, one good bump and it will fall.

Welcome to IFI Peter

Heres my take mate, love the fact your using an Old anvil, dont make anything untill you have practised the processes, lose the glove, wet the long end down to cool it but a glove will trap hot steel in it one day and you will get burnt bad, holding stock against your leg is good, anvil may be a bit low for you. Its not all just bashing hey -)

Brendan

Mate that fan will be fine... If you add another 20-30 forges inline. Lol. If you have to use that fan you will need a ball valve in the air line, and you will be using a lot of power unnessesarily

Welcome to IFI mate.

If that is gal pipe I wouldnt be using it mate, look up "heavy metal poisoning, Paw Paw Wilson. Good idea on the washing machine frame, but you might like to brace the sides, those things can be a bit floppy.

Gee I wished I had meet you 5 years and one dirty great stump and a fortnights worth of digging ago Frosty

LTF you need to break the top one now, dont know how ya missus lets you get away with doing half a job -)

Congratulations on your anvil purchase mate.

Bought an 8" shifter, pair if tinsnips and a very small ball pein with a broken handle yesterday, 50 cents a piece, thats my kinda price range.

Easy path, fill with sand.

Hard path, weld top on, then you need anvil to weld stoppers on top to keep anvil in place.

Get a set of number stamps and stamp her Y.O.B on her mate

Way I do mine. Cut half way through stem at bottom of head, heat head up and flaten in hardy, re-heat and bend head out of the way for the cut, make cuts and open the arms, trim top and bend head back. Makes a nice base.

Thats fair enough

How much soldering have you done Soleil?

Got the anvil?

Tinning is just putting solder on each face seperatly before you solder them together, use the same solder mate. Your torch should do it no worries.

For when you do find the right solder. Are you tinning the joint ends first?