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  1. I bet that would be fun to watch, In a science way. The "neatest" thing I have seen is a motel room that had the walls and roof partially blown off due to meth lab explosion. Thomas yes those are some ideas i will put in my back pocket. Thank you.
  2. Frosty thats what i thought about the stainless, but the website is stamped on the pins, i think im going to get in touch with company and ask them about it. As for the PPE for asbestos, we wear tyvek suits, PAPR or full face respirators with P100 filters, gloves, also while working we have to isolate the areas with poly, run hepa filtered negative air scrubbers and lots of keeping the asbestos materials wet. and of course having to shower before leaving a work area.
  3. Doing an asbestos demolition on a former hoarders house, and was given the option to take what I wanted, found this stuff... the bull pins are 304 stainless according to the manufactures website
  4. Thats crazy awesome that there a quite a few Tennesseans here.
  5. Yeah i am down for meeting up sometime and hanging out and exchanging ideas and what we have learned. ill send you a pm here shortly
  6. Thank you for the concern about keeping me safe and healthy. Ear protection has been borrowed from work and will be used whenever i get out and make noise.
  7. Frosty, I ended up making a nail header and some nails this weekend. I also took an old file and made a 7 inch chopper. Only got a little pitting and a small warp in the tang during the quinch, no cracks and the blade held up hitting it against a aluminum fence post. I probably will try and make some fuller tools and maybe a spring hardy next time I get out. Yes that sounds like a very real possibility. Went to college at Montevallo and spend a lot of free time in Madison/Huntsville/Decatur area visiting college friends so I could make that work is schedules match up I was told she was 100 lbs. Feels about like that. I didn't really notice the how loud she was until you mentioned it. I was messing about with it and using tarp bungee cords, the harder to stretch ones, then wrapped a chain and it absorbed quite a bit of the noise. But other than my own ears, i really dont have to worry about bothering anybody with noise
  8. First and foremost, i would like to thank everybody for the vast amount of knowledge that i have already obtained just by reading these forums. I don't know why I was drawn to this craft but it has a very strong grip on me. I am from the Nashville area and have seen a couple other Tennessee folk on here. I have already a few times heated up some metal and started banging away. Didn't make anything, just mesmerized by moving metal and trying out different hammers and techniques to find what works best for me. Don't really have a direction YET as to decorative or blade smith or whatever type of work, but just want to obtain a practical skill of any sort, and why not start with historically (i am a history nerd) the most important skill that helped civilizations evolve. I started messing about and getting my gear about a year ago. I came across someone getting out of the game and got me a bunch of hammers, tongs, railroad anvil and steel for a very good price. A couple of weeks ago I fortunate enough to come across an anvil. Correct me if i am wrong please, from what I have researched here is that I have me an Arm and Hammer from Ohio, no idea on a date. There is some slight damage on one side of the top but there is still enough room for me to work on the other side. Has decent rebound on the non damaged side. From what i can make out the serial number is 15046. Thank you again, all of you, for what you have already taught me and for whatever other knowledge that might eventually come my way. Russell J
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