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Kevin Olson

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  1. Hey olydemon. Those tentacles are very interesting. Could you explain how you made them and possibly show the tools? Thankyou
  2. Dude. You got a 256 lb mouse hole. Wow. Thats very cool. Feel lucky for your purchase! I have anvil envy right now! The edges look pretty good and not much sway! Nice anvil!!!
  3. I get tong blanks from Kens here in minnesota. He has some bundle packs and the price is very reasonable. You have to finish forgeing them and punch or drill a hole for the rivet. I will pm you the link.
  4. Ted. Glad your back. You look good. I don't know you but you look like a person that alot people would like to know as their friend. God bless
  5. Every project determines how to manage your fire. If its small and quickly reheated I shut the air off to conserve coal. If its a big piece I leave the air going some to keep the fire as hot as possible and just keep feeding it coal. Because I don't like to stand around waiting for the forge to come back to the screaming hot fire the piece needs . But in the end only you can determine how to manage your fire. It takes time at the forge to figure this out. I hope this helps.
  6. Welcome to the forum and the addiction of blacksmithing! We love pictures so can you post some of your shop.
  7. Thats cool njanvilman. I have kinda of a scrap yard i visit once in a while that has a firetruck inside for sale. Dont know what it is but its cool. My grandad had a powerwagon for use in his logging operation 40 years ago and my nephew turned into a hot rod. Very cool remembrance of grandad! He loved his loud exhaust stacks on his crew cab work truck! Sorry to get off topic.
  8. Hey njanvilman. Thats to many for a harem. You have 2 to many:-) Is that a firetruck in the background
  9. Hey ninjarex1. Your comment about you talking to your anvil hits home for me. Mine is from my granddad and I talk to him all the time :-)
  10. Here is a pic of the of the bottom. That plate is the original swivel base and I just love that swivel tightining nut with handle.
  11. Thomas. Thanks. With my eyes it looked like 1830 but looking at the pic I, like you, saw the 1880 then found the patent and its the same vise. Thankyou. This little thing is built heavy duty to. It has 3 1/2 jaws. Bottom of the vise to the top is 7 inches and length without handle is 12 inches. Its much more robust in person then the pics show. I want this thing so bad I can taste it :-) Hope I can buy it!
  12. This is in the back of a van we are working on in the bodyshop. Looks to say MARBEY'S but the s looks like an 8. Then there is an unrecognizable letter then &K. It also says "pat may 11 1830" . Its really hard to make out. Im at work and trying to do this quick and google finds nothing and I have never searched for patent info before so Im just stumbling around with that. Maybe some one here has seen one of these. To operate it , the handle goes straight up which releases the screw so you can quick slide it on or out then a quarter turn on the handle locks then tightens the vise. Really a neat vise. I am going to see if its for sale when he picks up his van.
  13. Hey HojPoj. How many layers and how many petals on each layer. I did mine with 3 layers with 4 petals on each but yours has more petals
  14. That's like a Rolls Royce. If its not leaking its empty. I know this cuz my buddy has one
  15. Adam. Welcome to the addiction of blacksmithing and to the Iforge Iron Brotherhood/Sisterhood. Keep goin on and maybe your boy will see the passion too. Hard to get past the high school girls though. :-) Keep doin kool stuf and he will notice. I'm glad you got your sweety back. And dont worry how you look cuz we have some interesting folk here. In the end, its just a hammer on hot iron and making beautiful things!
  16. I'm green with Hay Budden envy:-) She's a beauty. Have the edges been welded and ground?
  17. Nice collection. I have envy over your indian chiefs. The 1st vise I got was a chief and I picked up 2 more in the last couple years. So needless to say I have a thing for chiefs. Oh.. And littlestown bench vices too!
  18. Das. Thats one very cool maytag les paul !!!!! How much dies it weigh? I just watched a video of a guy that built a strat with 1200 glued together colored pencils. Pretty neat.
  19. Im glad it turned out. Im glad I had access to a press to fix mine. Are you really forging with charcoal briquettes instead of lump charcoal. My understaning is they dont work well.
  20. Movable leg is bent at the screw hole or just above it. The jaws should only touch at the top when closed with a gap at the bottom. /\ As the vise opens the jaw faces go parallel, I I and when opened more then the bottom of the jaws do the clamping. \ /. I have a vise that was like yours. I pulled it apart and put the movable leg in our shops 20ton harbor freight press and and bent it at the screw hole until the jaw tops were level
  21. Steel bushinig? Could that really be a possibility. That just doesn't sound right to me but my wife tells me Im wrong all the time:-) We need a Fairbanks person to chime in.
  22. I see a steel shaft that is rusty inside of babbit/brass bushings. We know the the shaft is just supper tight because of the rust expansion versus a steel bolt being siezed in a steel part where they actually become one piece. So short of putting it upside down in 50 gallons of wd-40 or the like I think your on the right track with the forced rotation of the shaft. Just have to figure out how to apply more torque and maybe use 4 weed burners to apply heat to the bushing areas and a couple of air hammers to induce a high frequency vibration in the shaft could possibly break it loose. I dont see a gentle way of getting that huge shaft to turn.
  23. I like that idea Bart and I am going to do that my self.
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