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  1. Welcome aboard Keith, glad to have you. Thanks for Serving. Do you have anything in mind for forging in between honeydos? Have any questions? Know any jokes? Frosty The Stealthy.
  2. I'm changing my handle as soon as I can figure out how. between the IFI upgrade and my recent system cleansing and upgrading I can't find where to write "anything" instead of "Newbie" under Rank. I think "Frosty The Stealthy" has a nice ring to it. Thanks Spanky. Frosty The Lucky.
  3. I didn't think the location was necessary seeing as there's a moose in my Avatar pic but O-K-A-Y. Yeah, Glenn set me up with completely new account to see if we could get my disfunctional acct working. I ended it taking it to Average Joe who went through my comp software, etc. etc. and got it straightened out. Maybe Glenn will send back to the old me or maybe I'll just start over. Heck, maybe I'll just change every couple hundred posts? Frosty The Lucky.
  4. Welcome aboard, glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many of the IFI gang live within visiting distance. Have a picture of this thing? I've found a double barrel retort to be virtually smoke free once it's warmed up. You ARE using the pyrolization gasses from the inner barrel to provide the heat. Yes? The 55 gl. drum needs to have a closable end with a draw and a stack. The inner or "retort" barrel has a sealable end with ONE 2" floor flange in the end, very near the barrel side, 1 ea. 2" 90* street elbow in the floor flange and one 2" x 2-3" nipple. The end of this nipple stops directly in front of the air draft of the 55 gl. drum. You packed the 33 gl barrel with wood, cut to length and split. clamped the lid on the barrel and inserted in the 55gl drum. The barrel rests on a couple 3-4 flat bars to keep it from laying flat on the drum's bottom but nothing fancy. Don't make me tell you the plumbing in the barrel is at the bottom! Now just pack small wood around the barrel in the drum, close the drum lid and light it up. As soon as the wood begins to pyrolize it will release flammable gasses which will exit the 33gl. barrel directly in front of the combustion air intake (draft or draw) and will burn. The pyrolization gasses will provide ALL the heat necessary to make your charcoal and when the flame turns completely transparent close the draft, and plug the stack so NO oxy can get in till it's cooled off. This is the self sustaining indirect method and about as efficient as a home made retort gets. Frosty The Lucky.
  5. Does the cast one have "BROOKS" cast proud on it's side? That would not be a "who cares" anvil. Frosty The Lucky.
  6. But I can't stop laughing Thomas, I just got my Iforge snafu straightened out! I'm surprised I can type at all doing this happy dance! The difference in rebound is the difference between the incidence of rebound of the steel itself and the spring-like flex of it's shape. For example a leaf spring flat has a significant archer's bow-like rebound while on end it's rebound is almost imperceptible. I'd put that baby to work Justin, weld a safe base under it for sure and maybe dress the edges to different radii but that's about all. That is just a primo anvil. Frosty The Lucky.
  7. Takes one to know one Charles. Neener neener neener. Welcome aboard Niamh, glad to have you, we need more lady smiths posting you bring a different feel to the iron and we can all use the perspectives. Besides ladies smell better than the smoky, sweaty, soot covered guys I've known. If we ever meet fact to face you'll have to explain how your name/handle rhymes with Eve. Then again an author I love pronounces Ghoti fish and I figured that one out by time I was 10 so what the hey. . . <grin> Frosty The Lucky.
  8. Pouring aluminum in a pool is probably the safest thing I saw him do. Unless he and the girl already have on in the oven I'm pretty sure he isn't going to make much of a contribution (quantity wise that is) to the gene pool. It's counter intuitive but pouring molten metal into a LOT of water is safer than just a bit of moisture. Water expands something like 600x at 1,100f but water has a much higher specific heat than al. This means a couple drops of water can turn into say a couple pints of steam but a couple gallons of water won't even boil adding a couple cups of molten al to it. Now if they were to just dump the can of al on a piece of damp wood or a concrete floor things would get really exciting and Mr. stupid science project would find out how much protection his best gear was. I've had droplets of al go down my shirt and boy was I glad I was sweating. A shop class casting went wrong and I was standing by my flask waiting for a turn at the ladle. Hey, a reply from Frosty The Lucky!! typo of 450x corrected to 600x
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