Scott NC

Very nice, Das. Someday I'd like to visit your sales booth at a show but I would probably have to leave my credit card and checkbook at home, no self control with somethings.... . I always thought elliptical gears would be cool to work into sculptures but they are hard to find.

Search "Tanker Desk". They don't make anything like they used to.

I enjoyed looking at all the pictures, thanks Billy. I really liked reading about him creating the syllabary and teaching it to his daughter. A lot of history I might never have learned.

Thanky you both. I guess I have just never ran across one before. I'm always learning something.

What are these things? I was given a bucket of them.

There's a saying... "secure for sea". Can you imagine cannonballs rolling all over a pitching deck in high seas in the middle of a battle? No doubt a lit cannon would break loose just then. I remember on our ship, in my office, my desks legs were set into pipes welded to the floor to keep it from becoming a projectile. The mess hall was entertaining in heavey weather.

I will second that. I have to ask though, Voldemar, is that a mosaic on your table top? I used to do small chairs with mosaics on the seat and backs. Nothing that rises to your level of talent though. Have you considered starting a new topic displaying your work? It would allow more people to see it over time. This topic will eventually get buried. Very nice! [Mod Note: this has been split into its own topic.]

Shainarue, I think I would have let that aerator sit and run until it was out of gas and came back in a few days to move it. . I don't trust bees. Or Fire Ants. I like that idea, I can see putting a cannoneer sculpture on it holding up a rammer that in turn hold up the books.

Welcome from North Carolina. I used to live in Gresham and just over the river in Vancouver. Great place. I too love "The Moon".

I have some stout, built in bookcases of oak... but maybe not that stout.

Those are some pretty cute mousers and they have interesting names... I bet I can tell which one catches the most mouses....

I don't advocate alloy experimentation by hobbiests. I had close friend get badly damaged by doing so. And he was bright, intelligent and safety savy. I regret joking around a bit on this thread.

Oh, the problem is the books flop outward on the top. I have some small scale cannons my grandpa made on the bookshelf and always wanted to make some bookends out of mill balls or shot puts with that same plate, to look like cannon balls. Maybey make the bases the same size as the diameter of the "cannonballs".

Thanks Rojo. I made two identical ones for bookends but wasn't thinking too good as only the bases touched the books. Das, your rooster attack reminded me of the only time I was ever attacked by an animal. When I was just 5 or 6, I was playing around a fenceline and got into some kind of wasp nest. My parents heard the rukus and came out and rescued me. They said I didn't know where to run. My doctor once said that something like that can cause you to be super allergic, I believe it because 10 years ago I got zapped by a yellowjacket and it almost killed me, I think. I didn't know I was allergic at that time. I now carry a pen. "chicken hobo commune" lol...

Nice stand, ILoveSteel. You seem satisfied as to it's stability, however it would be a simple matter to weld some angle iron (angle, pipe, whatever) legs on all four corners. Then you could remove the rotor or leave it on for more ballast as you see fit. Safety suggestions are SOP around here...

Thank you, Les. It's a lot of fun to find just the right bits and parts. It's a kind of "emerges as you go" type thing....... Jerry.... Aric, I was going to ask if your rooster was named Bubbles but losing an eye is no joke. I had some evil mean Rhode Island Reds once.

Thank you all. I have many ideas fermenting and brewing, and will have to see what bubbles up.... but no more chickens! Well, maybe a zombie one but that's it.

I bet he has a labor/back saving way of doing it!

Not much to crow about, but it's my last sculpture. I just had to post it and get it out of my system. On to new and better things....

I hope you have a good turn out. Kudos to whoever designed that poster.

These ideas are both worth looking into. I didn't consider having the bottom rolls on a slide, Aric and I like the idea of synchonized power rolls which would require a take up sprocket if the lower ones were moveable. I was thinking just one powered roll. Thanks Jerry. I have a reprint of "1800 Mechanical Movements, Devises and Appliances" I have been looking through for ideas too, which will help to overcomplicate it, but that makes things interesting.

Mayby he took out that patent knowing it was malarky. He then waited for all his competitors to go broke finding a similar but better formula that actually worked. Mayby he owned a copper mine or two.

You described my old roller to a t. I copied a Buffalo roller I used in a shop I worked at years ago, only on that one, the top roll came down to bend the pipe. I built mine as you say. We did some heavey work in that shop. There was a pedrick bender I always wanted to copy at home on a small scale but never got round to it. The dies were heavey and we changed them with an overhead crane. There was a bender called "The Wrapper" for very large pipe.... Having to have the pattern rolls opposite each other on my rolling machine presents some difficulty if it is to be a ring roller as well. On my sketch, the first two sketches are pretty obvious, the third I don't know if it would work, slippage on the rolls, flat sections, etc... and the fourth sketch would be to make the top roll movable which would be fiddly (moving the top spindle and bearings to middle position and bolting to the frame) unless I could come up with a "quick change" idea. Sometimes my ideas are gibberish to others but clear in my mind. Sorry for any confusion. Maybe back to the drawing board....

I thought you were asking about the "salt" ingredient. Yes, copper sulfate is a salt. Evidently, borax is a form of it too. "Borax is a salt (ionic compound), a hydrated borate of sodium, with chemical formula Na 2H 20B 4O 17 often written Na 2B 4O 7·10H2O. It is a colorless crystalline solid, that dissolves in water to make a basic solution." So you have copper, salt, salt and salt. . I'm no chemist either though. Some patent verbage makes you wonder. But it is interesting to read the wilder ones.

Plain old salt according to this patent, if it is of the same source, it is similar. https://patents.google.com/patent/US1943738A/en?oq=1943738 A lot of these old processes and techniques can be quite dangerous.