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Lol you’re welcome Scott! you only gotta wait a couple more days!

Lol Jerry I don’t know how you can be so savvy using a computer and email but don’t like a text message?

I’mma just waiting on either maintenance Dept or shaft Dept at Baldor up in westville to upgrade their machines and imma grab one of their old ones they use for shafts or what not!

Radio said somethin about -5 and possibly a -30 wind chill?!?!?!?! I don’t know which one of y’all left the stinking freezer door open but y’all need to start thinking about the power bill!!! it ain’t natural for the greater Metropolitan area of Peavine Oklahoma to get that cold!!! Jerry I Bet it was your fault! You were probably out there messin with your dachshunds and forgot to close the gate!!! A now your weather done spilled out 2000 miles away!! I hope your planning on bringing your plow truck to clear the driveway!!!!

bahaha! You too? My Ashlee doesn’t particularly get my humor either so don’t feel bad! I get a lot of eye rolls too!

Holy guacamole!!!! the whole reason I put the extra postage stamp on sealed letters is because the post office told me they where non machinable and had be be sorted by hand! And that I needed to pay the extra postage for that, apparently some of my letters still get ran through the sorting machines!!!! Hey I’m im glad yours made it! my son turns 3 in March so not far off!! I got cards in the mail yesterday and today from Randy and Debi! It looked awesome! Max is in California right now but when he comes home he’s gonna flip for those dinosaur coloring sheets!!!! Thank you! from Scott! thank You for the extra surprise! I won’t open it till Christmas!!! From Les! that’s a really awesome stamp on the back of your envelope!!! Did you have that custom made? From Shaina! that card was hilarious!!! Max is gonna love that dinosaur!!!!

So Your the reason I can’t never find one here!!!! You done bought em all! Lol

Shaina awesome!! You’ll have to show your idea to me sometime! I’d love to see it!

Howdy from Peavine oklahoma and welcome to the forum! Like Randy said you’re in a perfect place! There’s blacksmiths literally all around you, Im a member of BOA and I highly recommend joining!

I wouldn’t bother with all that, that blower assembly has more wrong with it then just the flywheel, and even in tip top shape those lever blowers aren’t all that great, that forge body on the other hand is in excellent shape!!! and you already have a working Buffalo blower ready to use now!!! I would just make an adapter plate to match the existing holes and then attach a tuyere to the plate and your off to the races I’ve seen other folks here on IFI do really cool retrofits using a good rivet forge body you might run down to the scrap yard in stilwell tomorrow and find a plate with pipe already welded to it ready to bolt up for $.20 a pound! sometimes I luck out and find the perfect part for a project down there just laying in the dirt! Don’t forget to clay it before firing or that excellent forge body can possibly crack on you

Thanks for the heads up! i Inquired what it was used for and they said it was used for heating up samples in the engineering department where they work with metals on cnc stuff, so I don’t think it had many dangerous chemicals in it, but just to be on the safe side how would you recommend cleaning it? I wouldn’t want to cause some explosive reaction by spraying the wrong cleaner on it!

Lol Jerry, I could give you a list of things in return that would go farther out then that, Thomas I’m glad to hear you’re away from the alarms, I hope you get some much needed rest!

It’d be awesome to see everyone’s take on forged Christmas card holders!

Lol that was just a joke Gazz!

What’s the deal with all the zombie apocalypse stuff y’all talk about here on the forum? is there something I dunno bout here in peavine America? I see that zombie stuff mentioned fairly often here and I’ve wondered what was goin on?

That’s awesome Randy!!! I like that curly cue around the handle! imma try that too!

Oh!!! in that case! Bahaha!

Sorry John, Do what? Randy I figured if nothing else I can make grilled cheese sandwiches with it as long as the Laboratory I came out of never used it with anything radioactive! Lol

From what I’ve been told the champion is the superior hammer but there is no parts for them so everything has to be made by machine shops, spring shops, ect… that being said a champion #1 is a 60 pound hammer so it’s more then double the 25 pound little giant so if you have a need for more power I’d go with the champion, if your doing lighter work an want easier parts availability then go with the little giant

Nah they are just in off season, they come back every year an sometimes fix up an reuse the old ones

I agree George I hate seeing old stuff not getting used! so imma send you a wash board and agitator I’m not usin currently! Only condition is you gotta send me pictures of you actually using them! Bahaha

Got a laboratory oven today from up at the John brown university in Siloam, a friend of mine picked it up an brought it to me! it’s got a temperature controller on the bottom and a thermometer on top, the walls are pretty thick I think some kinda ceramic? anyways it works an it only cost $60 bucks, it runs on 115v and has a small footprint they said they think it goes up to 450 F but I don’t have a manual so I dunno for sure, I’ve plugged it in an turned it to the highest setting so I’ll know shortly I thought it might come in handy as a tempering oven for an adze or tomahawk? I dunno if it will work for that or not but i figured for the price it was worth trying! Worst case scenario, if it won’t work for a tempering oven then I got a fancy oven to dry out welding flux and keep welding rods in! I was too slow they had another one that could go over 1000 F for $160 but it done sold,

Hey! didn’t I see a forged Christmas card holder here on the forum last year that someone had made?

It’s been about 10 years since I last drove out that way but IIRC that last gas station on I40 when your crossing the Mojave Desert really socks it to you on price too! Lol

Yeah lookin at that map puts in in perspective! I didn’t realize they had that much dirt up there! on a side note I’m pretty sure Oklahoma beats Alaska on vastness of cows an chickens!!!