MarvinB

Yes sir that's sufficient and thank you

Lol no time for punctuation Nah it's not AR plate I looked it up it came from Germany

It wasn't high carbon I'm not sure what it was exactly for what it was being used for before I assumed it was good carbon of some kind before I treated it i could hit it with my rounding hammer and dent it so I treated it and it's harder than my hammers

This was a peace off a coal conveyor I got from the power house I was working at the legs on the avil where originally on each end of the plate which was about 30" long and 3/4 thick I cut it in half added a peace of 1/2 in to the center I drew this out hopefully easier to understand

Figured I'd share i built myself a striking anvil and successfully heat treated it

Put the refract in it works just fine 20161126_032751_1.mp4

Just curious to know if there's any bladesmiths/blacksmiths near me I'm in Kingstree South Carolina

Thanks guys I've used a few there's just so many figured it be better to ask than winging it

5000 lbs and it'll be completely empty I'ma look everything over and see what the best approach will be

Looking for opinions on epoxy what do you guys use

We got a car trailer and we don't have to move it but about 6 miles we've been talking we've got 4 railroad Jack's think I might weld four peaces of 4" I beam off each corner lift it up back the trailer under it and off we go

A friend of mine is moving so naturally I asked him what he was gonna do with his almost finished shed his response I'ma leave it ME well I be xxxxxx if that's so He looks at me funny asks me what I mean so we worked out a deal hope it all goes well and I get it home

OK well before I joined this forum i watched a YouTube video on a simple forge liner you all know the one it didn't work the first time it would never cure just crumbled apart so I figured it was something I did wrong well I tried it again teaked it a bit let sit for a week still it just crumbled so I stuck it under the table and started collecting the material to do it right at this time I've joined up here well it's been sitting under the table for well over a month I pull it out with the intention of knocking all this crap out and doing it right well it set so I stuck a burner in it to see warmed it up its ok threw the gas to it stick a file in it 5 min is all it took I let it run it insulates good no heat on the outside I figure I've got money in it so I think I might smear some refractory over it see how well it does OH And I'm Not Trying To incurage anyone to use this because even if it does work out fine who has a month to wait on it to set lol I just so happened to say the heck with it and used coal I forgot to mention I put heat to it as well trying to hurry the prosses it just kept growing and crumbling

It's a I bolt so probably so Does anyone know what type steel they use for I bolts ?I'm guessing it could be a wide range

What's this mean it's stamped on a bolt shaft

Will do soon as I get a chance

They could be they came from a coal burning power plant

I got a bucket of these recently I'm guessing there case hardened there used to keep fly ash stirred up and moving I figured they will make some good blades what you guys think

Hey thanks guys I actually ended up with 8' of 1" kaowool I wasn't thinking I weld tubes and pipe and there's kaowool everywhere it's what they insulate the pipe with

My mistake I didn't mean to skip over anyone

OK guys I've got kaowool I just didn't think about it it's all over the plants I work in I got about 8' that's 1" thick so will the sodium silicate work to bind it together and to the forge itself

Where's the best place online to buy forge liner kaowool/ceramic fiber

I made some sodium silicate not long ago you think that will work for the ridgidizer with the blanket

Need some help I'm a pipe welder by trade so I threw this together can I use refractory cement for a liner if not can anyone tell what I can use that's cheap

Just looking for a little aid I read on here that 20 Mule works but it holds moisture and there's another type of borax I don't remember what it's called that's better there was alot of talk about baking the moisture out of the mule borax not real sure Frosty thanks for the info I guess I'ma do some experimenting