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JHCC

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  1. JHCC
    Prayers and blessings on you and yours. Peace and healing.
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    UPDATE: I did this last night with three pieces of sidewall from a motorcycle tire, which is a lot thinner than the material I'd planned to use. It did not work well at all. The stump was rocking something awful, and the anvil was bouncing all over the place. Made necking down a piece of leaf spring (for a nail header) practically impossible. Definitely pulling those back off.
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    Remember the old trick from before they standardized children's furniture safety standards: if a gap is too small for a Coke can, it's too small for a baby's head.
  4. JHCC
    This is all so much naval gazing.
  5. JHCC
    Quite apart from its utility in demanding spatial imagination from your instructees!
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    Good point! Even for making nails, you need a header. To make a header, you need a punch, a drift, a hot-cut hardy, etc. Start with the most basic, and show how this leads to more complex projects.
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    Enough garlic will either cure what ails you, or make people leave you alone. Either way, it's a win. This reminds me: it's getting about time to plant next year's garlic patch....
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    And it's hard to find that info without reading the posts.
  9. JHCC
    First, make sure there's no loose rust.
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    Decorative fork

    JHCC posted a gallery image in Member Galleries

    Decorative fork
    I made this a long time ago for a girl I liked as her Sweet Sixteen present. The fact that she's been my wife for the last 23 years is purely coincidental.

    © All rights reserved.

  11. JHCC
    Railroad people; any idea what kind of metal the fat J-shaped pieces in the lower right are?
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    Railroad pliers/tongs/?

    JHCC replied to JHCC's topic in Tongs

    Interesting. I suppose an electrician for the railroad might have been the original user.
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    A friend picked this up near her home, where they're doing a conversion of a commuter rail line to a bike path. (The RR spike gives you an idea of the scale.) The notching in the tip of the jaws should be useful for gripping thin stock lengthwise. Any ideas on original use?
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    Hmm...looks rather like the one I made from a jackhammer bit, shown here with the spring clip that hardens up the fit in the hardie hole:
  15. JHCC
    A friend gave me a bunch of bits and pieces she picked up from a rail-to-trail conversion near her home. Mostly steel, a few bits of brass, an interesting tool, and the inevitable notice from the TSA when your checked baggage is heavy and clanks.
  16. JHCC
    Here's a couple of better views of the blower mechanism: But this wasn't working very well, so I jammed the hose of a shop vac set to Blow up the ash dump:
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    A lot like my little rivet forge. What are you going to be burning?
  18. JHCC
    Thank you!
  19. JHCC
    And take your picture with the light at a low angle.
  20. JHCC
    Is "Hig praise" anything like "MIG welding"?
  21. JHCC
    Steve, would you be so kind as to repost this image?
  22. JHCC
    I've been thinking about nailing three bits of tire sidewall (about 1/2" thick) on the bottom of my anvil stump for the same reason. I'll let you know how it works.
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    When my grandfather was about four or five, he was jumped by a pack of sled dogs in the Alaskan village where his father was the local Episcopal priest. After one of the men beat the dogs off (saving his life), my great-grandfather knocked him out with ether and cauterized all the wounds with a red-hot poker. When I knew him, his whole head was covered with old scars. He was a tough old bird, though; died about twenty years ago, five days shy of 99.
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    Stake anvil.
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    He also really liked the photo I showed him of the bracelet I'd made from the retaining ring from inside a CV joint.
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