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Ron Hicks

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    How to get rid of mice?

    in Problem Solving

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    How about a big pile of green coal in the forge get it burnnin good and close up the shop - Smokem out :)

    I hate poison - most the time u cant find them but sure can smell em + Im afraid my pets might eat a poisoned mouse and poison them or get in the poison.

    I would stick to traps or a good BB gun
    Ron

    heat treating a long blade

    in Heat Treating Knives, Blades etc

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    I made a big blade a while back 20 in. long forged from a big truck leaf spring- I use charcoal in my forge , its a Champion Whirlwind pot for coal or coke with a big hand crank Royal blower . On the pipe from the crank blower to the fire pot I have a small elc. blower attached .
    Any way back to the big blade ,
    I rigged up a air pipe that sat down in the fire pot looked like a (T) with holes along the top the air came in from the bottom in the center.
    The way I rigged up my air pipe I had a slightly cool spot in the center I think it would have been better If the air would have entered at the end instead of the center.

    I used a heavy 3 in. pipe with a cap welded on one end to place my blade in to help even out the heat and help stop scale.You heat the pipe and the pipe heats the blade , you want the blade sitting on its spine so the heat travels from the spine to the edge.
    You want to get 2 or 3 in. of fule under the pipe , fule at bothe sides a good amount on top. You want the charcol to burn and drop away from the bottom of the 3 in. heat treat pipe ( charcoal touching the bottom will make uneven heat ) used something to prop up the pipe so as the charcoal burns down the pipe stays in place.

    Using a 3 in heavy pipe to heat treat in will work and gets a good even heat
    helps with scaling if you will put small slivers of wood in to burn the air up in the pipe . makes final clean up lots easier .

    It takes a bunch of charcoal and lots of air I think I burnt up 20 lbs of charcoal to make 1 fire .
    What have you got for a quench ? Is your tank long enough? dont forget to pre heat.
    one other thing normalize make sure its not going to warp - I heated mine 3 times before hardening

    Like I say it takes lots of charcoal
    Ron

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