Panday

Thank you. The problem I have is specifically with punching the eye for a hanging strap after the twist. If I try to punch the hole afterward I end up either denting the handle on the bolster or flatten out the points on the twist. This one I dented and drew it out a bit to try to planish out and hide the dents. The angle I took this picture at hides most of it. Although the need for a hanging strap on a tool with a glaringly obvious hole to hang it from confounds me, they sure sell better with one.

I'd like to know what moderator edited my post, and suggest they check with an attorney before booting me. Nothing was edited, a comment was added to your post as a warning, which you failed to follow, that is it, Good bye. You blew it. Have your lawyer call us. Our lawyers rates are $500 hr, have your Credit Card handy to pay her, and remember the ban was your idea.

If you have a "self service" wrecking yard near you, you can usually just walk around and find them laying on the ground. The closest one to me charges $10 for the spring and like $5 to get in. Otherwise you can check Craigslist etc for people parting out an old vehicle. I hate it when you forget a step on something and mess up your piece trying to do it later. Case in point, I forgot to punch this for a strap before I did the pinapple twist and dented the crap out of it trying to punch afterward.

Hence "Tempering"

Jim, thats how I'd ultimately like to be set up once I have a dedicated shop space.

That's cool. Do you have a picture of the whole unit?

You know, I can build a house, build a car, even repair some of my audio recording gear, but I can't do so much as sew a button on my shirt without it coming back off in a few days. lol

Tomas Powers often references how you can replace a vise spring with mild steel. I've never done it, but is a very simple spring and it kind of highlights the idea.

I'd lay a handsome wager you've never seen a spring steel stocking hook.

"Tempering" is unlikely to effect that one way or the other. Most likely cause would be forging errors.

I might suggest then that references and citiations for a *school project* be limited to persons who lived with the period of historical record. I would also like to point out the sites guidelines ask us to refrain from talking about religion. Tubal Cain, Adam/Eve never should have been referenced at all. While I can site other references on Tubal-cane, I will instead warn you to behave or you will be shown the door. YOU brought up religion, Glenn the OWNER of this stie where you are a guest, mentioned historical persons that have been credited by a few sources. Your definition of Historical record is off a bit as well, as will be your access if you dont knock it off.

Ian, that's what triggered me to ask. Like I said though, it needs to be mobile. Frank, most of my tools are in the 12" long range. Tin cans are hard to find in a usable size.

I'd seriously reconsider this. I would *not* trust the quality of those welds at 1440rpm. Your weld prep is non-existent, and flux core wire is ill advised for this under the best of situations. Your backing isn't going to be stable enough to resist the centrifugal force of the blades which will drive them into your housing at speed and *really* test your welds. Not to mention those blades will effectively be little more than tissue paper trying to move air at 1440rpm. Why not just use a motor/squirrel cage from a preexisting fan setup? Or even find a squirrel cage from an automotive application and fit it to your motor?

I can't count the number of times someone has asked me for "X" number of items for a set and I've had to make several extras to make them all look like they were made by the same person. Lol Usually what happens for me is the last one is a lot more refined than the first. Both look fine and stand well on their own but will have some texturing differences or something.

So long as its solid who cares. You should see the look on people's faces when they ask for something and I pull out some nasty bent rusted piece of scrap out of my bin. Most of my tooling is made from really ugly looking scrap I found buried in my backyard. Lol

OK, so I've got to the point where I'm having trouble finding chisels in my pile. I need something more efficient and would like some ideas. At present my idea is to make a 24" wide cart with shelves every 3" or so with the top shelf being intended for "active use" and lower shelves for storage with the business end facing out. Everything needs to be mobile as everything has to get packed up at night. Thank you.

If we're going to cite mythology I might suggest Haephestus as being a more likely originator.

Was that 2 pieces twisted together? What's it supposed to fit on now? Lol

The opener I posted earlier was 1/2" square hot roll. (mild) I think I pay somewhere around $0.50-$0.85/ft. No heat treat necessary for openers. These are the punches/drifts I used for the openers I posted. Made from "sucker rod" which is discarded oilfield rod used to operate well pumps. They need the be dressed and heat treated currently (and frequently) but only takes me a few minutes to do with a torch. For reference sake, the slutter/punch is less than 1/8" wide.

Thank you. You bring up a good point about stuff falling inside. I'm going to hold off on that for now as I'm probably going to change this and put a piece of pipe in place of my post and tie it into the cross brace underneath to help stiffen it up a bit. That channel flexes way too much, but it's good enough to get me through the holidays.

This puts the the end of the screw just outside the perimeter of the drum. I can actually access 360 around it pretty comfortably. I'm presently pretending I know how to engrave walking around as I'm making curves.

Done. Well, not really done. I'm going to add a small shelf and still have to finish painting it. But its functional and more than adequate for my usage. I ended up cutting holes in it and running a piece of channel through for the leg to rest on. Also had to make a new wedge/key.

Bah, I'm sure you can fix that.

You clearly need a 3/4 ton pickup. Lol Nice score. I'd have to find a functional purpose for those wheels though. No way I could make them into scrap art. My first though was, those would make an awesome gantry. lol

And that's exactly why I'm making these rough cheap openers. Not only to meet a price point, but also to make the more expensive stuff seem more valuable.