Scott NC

It is inspiring thoughts in me of wizard sculpture hands now.

Including lawyers.

That's a handy idea Lary. Do you give them a little twist while pulling them out to help keep the caps in the hole. Have you ever tried metallic silver sharpies? They show up suprisingly good on steel, brass and copper for layout and marking. Not so much on shiny material or rough rusty stuff, though. Maybe it's been mentioned before....

Billy, the more I listen to Blackberry the more I like them, and Jerry, like the latest comment on that video says, "More Stan Rogers please!"... I'm ole squid anyway. Here's a song I like, there are better video versions, but I like the way they turn sideways and kick their legs, but mostly how he bends to the mike and says "tequia"....

You are very welcome. Attention when you get in a wreck because you can't see around your hood ornament?

I'm not doctor but have worked at jobs that stress ergonomics and back safety. One thing to be aware of is your "Power Zone". You can look it up on internet. I don't advocate anything medical wise but it's good to be aware. My back has held up good so far.

I got interested in silver mining and extraction (see "Beehive Kilns.....) which led to copper, tin, lead and other things. Smelting and refining being among them. Okay, I understand the fundamental idea. A simple picture shows it pretty clearly: I grabbed some stuff from wikipedia on reverberatory furnace's out of convenience as I am tired tonight: "Chemistry determines the optimum relationship between the fuel and the material, among other variables." "Contact with the products of combustion, which may add undesirable elements to the subject material, is used to advantage in some processes. Control of the fuel/air balance can alter the exhaust gas chemistry toward either an oxidizing or a reducing mixture, and thus alter the chemistry of the material being processed." I don't think I took them out of context. These are things that interest me. I guess they are called metallurgical furnaces as well. Metalurgy and chemistry interest me, too. I usually like to exhaust my understanding and research of a subject before I start asking questions, so I probably shouldn't even have mentioned the subject earlier, but I was trying to illustrate why I was digging around finding old blacksmith art and posting it. I always welcome input, comments and ideas, as you know, but I wasn't trying to derail this thread.

A key ingrediant in Scotch Haggis Balls.

I like it too. Very much. The first thing I thought of when I saw it was "back scratcher".... You could make another as a hood ornament for your truck to match your shifter knob.....

You could google: Custom Ornamental Iron Works Ltd I don't know what a decent price is to you or how many you need, but they have weldable/drillable solid steel balls starting at 5/8" for $.98 on up to 4". I don't know if they have a minimum, I have never dealt with them, just looked it up. They also have: Hollow Steel Balls Crushed Steel Balls Melon Steel Balls Half Hollow Steel Balls Pre-Drilled Solid Steel Balls Aluminum Hollow Balls Stainless Steel Hollow Balls Welding them on should not be to hard.

Quite right. Let her rip.... Btw that's not the Danish Orchestra i tried to post, I don't think.

What I was referring to are reverberatory furnaces used in smelting and refining and their operation and history..... What I mean by mindblowing is some of the things I come across are not. Your welcome.

Sorry. I think my relief valve was venting there a bit.

I don't even have a bank branch here anymore. I think I should have stayed home in the corn field where every single fee, rate, cost, premium, and cheeseburger didn't skyrocket 6 months after moving. I won't even go into what I spent and gave up to move to this shangrila. Nevermind the maniac drivers and deadly snakes and bugs. Or the moss that grows on everything....

Don't beat around the bush and tell us what you really think!

Close but no cigar.

Have I ever mentioned the time I backed the tractor too close to the burnhole on here before?

Some designs of metal shapers run on Scotch yokes. I've thought about using them to make sculptures wave at people. Until I found 1800 mechanical movements book and forgot about that idea and started in on a new one.... or two. I'd reccomend it.

And who doesn't love the Danish Orchestra doing a western theme?

Only because it's carried me this far as well!

I've never built a hammer but love anything that employs a crank. That is pretty cool.

If done to August Destouy's approval. I think I saw one of his machines at the flee market, but passed on it. I have three models of his already in storage back home.... Where the boot is.

Yes, that's what happened to me, but I wasn't putting gas in there. I JUST had to look and see if the accelerator pump was working and it chose just that moment to backfire. A flameball shot out. I was young and had nobody to teach me some things. I learned a missing engine does not neccessarily mean a fuel problem real quick. It's all good as long as we learn from our mistakes, and nobody get's hurt. I will say I blinked at the right moment. My eyelashes were fused to each other. Somebody was looking over me. On more than one occassion..... This is one hazard kids don't face today, fuel injectors and all....

Very few times have I read something from you that I couldn't understand. You almost got me on that one.

They don't call me SkinFlint Scott for nothing.