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JHCC

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  1. JHCC
    Hi, Nick, and welcome to IFI! If you haven’t yet, please READ THIS FIRST!!!
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    Yes, it is.
  3. JHCC
    Very simple: that was the easiest shape to weld up from the sheet stock I had from the drop bin at my supplier. The hood isn’t an issue because, as noted before, I don’t have one. And here it is in situ: Probably won’t have a chance to fire it up today. Maybe tomorrow. I also welded up a dishing form. This is the end of a scuba tank cut off, inverted onto a ring cut from the same tank, and the whole thing welded on a piece of 3/8” plate.
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    My neighbor across the way is moving and gave me a 40 gallon trash can full of coal (probably anthracite).
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    Here’s the current state, basically ready to go: Rear view: And I added a shroud to protect the variac from flying scale and dust settling out of the air.
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    He’s still selling the plans on his website, at least.
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    Here’s the basic idea, and I have no idea if this would actually work. A small hood over (or next to) the fire would connect via a short vertical flue to a longer horizontal one (lying on the garage floor and stretching out the door). A strong fan would blow into one end of the horizontal flue, creating suction to draw the smoke down the vertical flue and push it out the horizontal, like this:
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    No hood at present. I’m forging in a two-car garage with the door open and a big standing fan to eject the little smoke the anthracite puts out. I’m playing with an idea for a downdraft hood that could take the smoke out more directly, but that’s a little way off.
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    That’s a possibility; I’ll give it a try. Addendum: I tried it, and I prefer the setup as shown. It’s more compact and more secure, and the blower is so overpowered that any airflow losses from the hose aren’t an issue.
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    Trying out blower mounting positions on the new forge. This one looks good; now to make a bracket. Also left some water in the bosh to test the seams. The only drips were from the drain valve.
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    I don't think there's a time limit; I just successfully edited a comment from four days ago.
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    If you hover your cursor over one of your FB comments, a little ellipsis should appear halfway up the right-hand side. If you hover over that, you should get a message that says "Edit or delete this". Click on that, and chose your option. Oh, and the soft return just goes to the next line. Two soft returns gives you a nice paragraph break.
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    On FB, do a soft return: hold down the Shift key while pressing the Return key.
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    The Return key is your friend.
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    I think Lou means "in a fire and lost its temper", but I could be wrong.
  16. JHCC
    If you both lived near me, you could have lunch at a local place called "The Foundry".
  17. JHCC
    The Holland anvil is made by IFI member foundryguy; there are some posts about it in the "Show me your anvil" thread, such as this one: https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/1085-show-me-your-anvil/?do=findComment&comment=590950
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    Another nice thing about carbon steel pans which is not true for some stainless pans is that they work on any kind of cooktop. Some stainless (and all copper, aluminum, and glass) pans don't work on induction cooktops, as they are non-magnetic.
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    Carbon steel pans are the mainstay of classic restaurant kitchens. I have a steel saute pan from Matfer that I got from a restaurant supply place many years ago that I use all the time. Care and feeding is basically the same, although a steel pan is lighter and less brittle than a cast iron pan of the same size. Take a look at this article from Serious Eats for more info.
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    Everyone wants to be the next Yvon Chinouard (forgetting that his father was a blacksmith).
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    Them's fightin' words, buckaroo!
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    I'm a dad!

    JHCC replied to Daswulf's topic in Everything Else

    You can take the smith out of the shop.... (That pedestal table could make a good stand for something.)
  23. JHCC
    Cast steel is superior to ductile iron as an anvil material (better rebound, better durability), if somewhat louder.
  24. JHCC
    No-one's suggesting that (indeed, the Kanca anvil is made in Turkey; the Peddinghaus, Germany), just that your risk of disappointment with a reseller of an unknown product of questionable quality is pretty high.
  25. JHCC
    If you like that, take a look at Andy Mackenzie (IFI's own EverythingMac)'s video of his Blacker treadle hammer, which has a somewhat similar action: Note that this answers your earlier question about having some kind of mounting arrangement for the sledgehammer.
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