Irondragon Forge ClayWorks

59 minutes ago, Shainarue said:

I think you should try it. 

Well said.

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20 hours ago, Paul TIKI said:

Talk about tight turnaround 

It was about like that when I had my cataracts removed and new lenses inserted. About an hour prep with anesthesia, a short wait for the operating room, 15 min later in recovery and as soon as I could stand and walk with a little help out to the car and my wife drove me home.

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Yes the rotating light floated on the mercury, which acted as a bearing. The funny thing about cleaning the mercury was, the light station I was last stationed at had the last civilian light keeper in the USCG as the master. It was a family station and the keeper who was in his 80s and his wife, along with myself and my wife with two kids (who were both born while we were stationed there) were the only folks there.

When I was told the mercury needed to be strained, I wasn't told how heavy mercury was. When I removed the drain plug, holding the bucket with one hand the mercury came out so fast it took the bucket out of my hand and 50 pounds of mercury went down 133 steps to the main floor. It took me about three hours with a foxtail broom and dust pan to get all of the mercury back in the bucket and strained and back in the light in time for it to be lighted. Took me a while to live that one down.

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Very nice candle holder, sure beats my cattail. 

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On 10/8/2023 at 12:43 PM, George N. M. said:

not so fond memories of Brasso and Blitz Cloth

When I was in the USCG stationed on light stations (houses) the main light's brass had to be polished every three or four months. It usually took all day and even with gloves, my fingers would bleed. To add insult to injury the 50 pounds of mercury the lights rotating bearing surface had to be drained and strained to remove any trash once a year.

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I'm pretty sure there are some pottery supply stores in your area, Up here there is a store over the Missouri line that stocks most of what we used in our forge.

I did a google search for "pottery ceramic supplies pike county ar" and three popped up around Little Rock.

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2 hours ago, Mothman_c3w said:

I am excited to see how she likes it.

I just showed it to Debi and she said "it's gorgeous, I want one". She said it looks like the steel cuff was fold formed and added. Think I will try and make one.

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A little shop envy, going on here.

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I'm on the way to the Celtic garden to ring the anvil three times. Asking for comfort, healing light and a positive outcome during your procedure tomorrow.

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I bet your wife will love it. I know mine would, kinda reminds me of early Celtic work. Renaissance wax is a very good choice to maintain it. Ya done good.

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It's been a long time ago but I think the electrodes I used were Stoody Stoodite 21 rods, preheated the jaws and quenched in oil.

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About the only thing I would do is file the rolled edges of the hammer head and BLO on the handle. Sorry to say not much can be done with the bolt cutter jaws without adding material by welding with the correct electrode and grinding them back sharp. If you know an experienced welder they could do it.  I fixed a pair just like those that way.

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2 hours ago, George N. M. said:

As you get older you realize that stairs are not you friend. 

We have made friends with the sturdy hand railing, I made for our place, 8 steps to the landing and 4 steps to the floor. The real challenge is carrying heavy stuff down stairs. Fortunately we planned for that and the downstairs door can have the truck backed up to it for real heavy stuff that needs to go downstairs.

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Very nice sleek knives, I like them, good job.

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Welcome from the Ozark Mountains Shelly.

If you are interested in selling your anvil, may I suggest listing it in the Tailgating section here. Be sure and read the Tailgating rules before listing it.

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Welcome from the Ozark mountains.

I would say not knowing where in the world you are located, Amazon would be the best option. We are not allowed to post live links to commercial sites.

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My late father in law always said "Three moves are as good as a fire". Our last move here to Arkansas was our second one. We're here to stay.

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Great narrative, once I turned it on, I couldn't turn it off till it was finished. Thanks for it. Saved it in my YouTube folder.

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That is better than the system I used which was a sheet of graph paper with the scale drawing and misc. notes scribbled in the margins and back, with a printed out picture from my phone or computer. All kept in an aluminum clipboard with some scanned into the computer.

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Now if you want something to hit hot steel how about Stomp.

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Well after all he did host the show from '69 to '97 and it's still better in reruns than most of the garbage that's on TV now.

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Welcome from the Ozark Mountains. The Read This First thread has how to add pictures, if I'm not mistaken, along with a lot of other helpful information.

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Replaced the battery in the old 1982 4X4 Chev beater truck, we use around the place. Couldn't believe the sticker on the old one dated 12/09. I think I got my money's worth and the mgr. at the Walmart auto center said it is a record for 14 years in service. I asked him if it had any warranty left and he laughed. He said the previous record was 10 years and it was out of warranty too.

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Welcome from the Ozark mountains.

If you were to put your general location in your profile, like suggested in the Read This First thread, it would show up with every post and we wouldn't have to dunn ya for it because a lot of answers require knowing where in the world you are located. No sense in me telling you to stop by my forge and pick up some steel that would work for a crossbow if you are in another part of the world.

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Might I make a suggestion, pack some clay around the fire grate to make a ducks nest fire pot, which will save on using so much fuel and give you a hotter fire by concentrating the air blast.

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