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Finished setting up my electolysis setup a bit ago. Having some coffee and a cinnamon roll while I wait. I think I made a pretty nice setup. Ive got some .175" thick copper cable, solid, I ran it around the tote and back in around rebar. Boy was it hard to bend after a few bends. Work hardening is real folks! There is one piece of rebar in each corner, I then tied the rebar to the thick copper with some actual copper wire. (I've got a lot of copper in a lot of shapes in sizes.) I changed out the wood for a plastic pipe and put a bolt through it. I also put put tape around all the exposed copper wire except where I attach the battery charger I had to turn baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) in soda ash/washing powder (sodium carbonate) via my oven. Since I forgot to see if they had any when I was at the dollar general.

So i opened the drawer to see if the snake was in there still. It was, along with another one. So yeah, now im constantly looking at every crevis very carefully before i go near or touch it. Awesome....

I'd love to do a 2x72 but Im not gonna dish out $500+ for one and I don't have the need to put the time and effort into making one yet. Although I do plan to make one when the need arises and I'm confident enough with my fabrication skills.

How do you know if the belt will hold up? Are the rated at the belts RPM or SFM? Also, don't have a motor but I could get a decent one cheap. Or use one from a machine I don't use much if needed. Also, I was thinking $50 might be steep but not sure. I'll check the belts though. I can't find any belts for that size. I checked the first custom belt place I found on google though and for aluminum oxide for $6 each and ceramic for $13. Rated for grinding metal. Not as bad as I thought they would be since it's custom. Also the price drops the more you buy. I told my dad to get ahold of the guy (he's in Ohio where it's posted) and to try and talk him down from $50. If he does get it for me I'll try and find someone to sell my 4x36 sander to for $20 and then at the very least I'll have a better sander. The one I have isn't something I really enjoy using.

So I found a Toolkraft 6x28 belt sander with a 9 inch disc sander attached, they want $50 for it and there is no motor. It looks to be made of cast iron and from the 50's or 60's. I have one of the newer cheapo 4x36 or 32, whatever it is with a disc sander. It's alright for wood and touching up metal. I was wondering if you guys think it would be smart/able to make it spin fast enough to be at belt grinding speeds. In one of the pictures you can see a lock screw to take the disc off, so when not needed I could take that off for extra speed. I'd say I'd want to get some new nice bearings and maybe make some rollers for it if I wanted to try that. Here's a picture of it though, think it would be cable to do that with? Here's a picture of the back It also rotates like any other like this, didn't want to post too many pictures though.

So I took my lathe apart (Atlas 618) in order to clean it, one I get it all cleaned up and stripped of paint I'm gonna paint it purple(as seen below). I also ran into a big black snake in a drawer looking for something. It's about 4 foot long, maybe a little shorter but it was big. Opened a drawer to see this about gave me a heart attack.

I've got family up by Columbus. In grove city. Maybe I'll ask my aunt to check it out for me before she comes down next time.

At least you can go visit it. Lol alright, I think I've seen some craigslist ads like that in my area before. I've gotta get my tailstock soon and learn how to cut threads. Give this free machine some use.

So I've started messing with my atlas 618 I got in December. I'm starting to get the hang of it. Did a few passes on the side and face of a piece of steel. It only came with the cutoff tool but I bought a cutter for a dollar and tried it out. I should have bought the carbide one he had but I wasn't sure it would fit in my tool holder. Anyway, where do you find cutters? I know most of the HSS ones come as blanks but I've tried google and can't find stores that carry any of them. I'll probably order online but would like to find somewhere local. What would I put in to search google, like "specialty shop" near me. Also, does lowes have them? Website wasn't showing anything.

I'm gonna be doing it on my parents property and we have our own underground electric coming to a box we own. So I could just get an electrician friend to help with wiring and if I needed the company to come I'd just say I'm wiring up a shed. Which is basically true. I'm not planning on going half but I can't afford all out. Eventually I can just tear out a wall and expand it if I wanted. My grandma and grandpa got a metal garage built up on the top of a giant hill and it gets bad weather compared to here and it's held up well. I would make sure whatever I did wouldn't get blown away. Also I'd definitely put a wooden frame in regardless since I have the material and I'd be able to put up some perforated board walls to hang tools and such. Plus metal reverbs sound too much. Mainly I'm able to do everything myself other than serious electrical stuff and I have a friend I can call.

Not really sure, nothing I've ever had to think or worry about. I guess I will need to find out if I'm wanting to wire up electric to it. Although even then I'm not sure there would be much or a problem honestly. I've seen some pretty janky garages around here. Is that something available online? I'm gonna look but if not I'll surely find how to find it. Well after looking it up I'm only finding stuff for Morgantown and that's only talking about having to pass inspections before during and after when hiring a contractor. It all seemed really vague. I guess I'll just have to call that office and see who to get in contact with.

So I've been thinking about what I want to do when I finally build a shop. I'm not trying to do anything fancy, probably dirt floors. I was wondering though. What would be cheaper in terms of material, I would end up building it myself or maybe have a little help. Would a wooden frame and walls or one of those metal garage like ones be cheaper. I know the metal garages are fairly cheap as far as garages go but for a fairly small workshop what do you guys think Also I have a big stack of 2x3s but I'm not sure that would be sufficient for an outer frame. I could use them if I wanted to section off a room though. Any input is appreciated, just looking for a rough idea. I know I'll have to go and do some of my own homework to know for sure.

Yeah, I think I might go try it out now. I just checked, I ordered Saturday night, they shipped Sunday and it was in route Sunday and Monday. It's weird, I've never had ups run on Sundays but they did on Sunday and a holiday. It's the Winco #225, it's got a pretty beefy handle. I'm probably gonna shape it and then I'll probably forge one.

My butcher block brush came in today, a day early at that. It wasn't supposed to be here until tomorrow because the holiday. Can't complain though. This should do a lot better than the little wire brush I was working with.

Oh boy, are you really doing this? Something like "My Little Blacksmith Shop" or something? That game is cool but could be so much better. I'm definitely interested in this.

Alright, for now I'm not doing anything professional. I don want to get into making knives because I think they would be fairly easy to sell in my area. Overall I want to do general all around stuff. Fo doing knives though, say a good common knife steel like 1095 or something like that, would vegitable oil or canola be good a sufficent? i guess mainly I'm wanting to know where to get that much at once, whether actual quench or even vegi oil. Cause whatever I buy it's always cheaper in bulk. Also tools, gotta start learning to make some good smithing tools as well.

So I've seen some old posts about quench oil but I was wondering if anyone knows if and what kind of places might sell 22 gallon or 55 gallon drums. I saw a 55 gallon drum of gulf super quench on Google for $520. I'm more than likely not gonna try and get anything that big soon unless it's convenient and I have the extra money at the time. Just one of those things I want to know how to acquire when it's needed. I read somewhere on here talking about being able to get drums of chevron quench oil "back in the day" so I'm not sure how long ago. I can't seem to find any oil suppliers via google, maybe I'm not using the right key words. All in all it would just be nice having a big old container of quench oil.

I've seen some of the posts on breaking coal. Most say doing it individually. Going with the grain. I think I'm gonna just stick some in a burlap sack and go at it with a sledge hammer.

Speaking of breaking up the coal. Anyone have a good solid way to break up coal, not one piece at a time? I'm finding it to be a pain to break it up but it's worth it in the end because it cokes up better and I can keep better control of my fire. Since I'm scrounging for coal off the tracks at the moment I'm mainly finding baseball, softball or bigger sized chunks. Their are smaller pieces but it's just quicker to go for the big pieces.

Finished the leaf I had started months ago, I drew out the end to be able to attach it to something and gave it a little bit of life. I also bent the point down on that hook I just made the other day.

I'm sure you could google something like "waiver for minor dangerous activity" or maybe even blacksmithing. Most wavers are just the same thing with key words changed out. Just realized that may come out like a "minor dangerous" activity. But you get the gist.

That's a good idea. There is an old grill in the garage over there.

Yeah, I know I could easily make the hole smaller for a regular burner I'm just not sure if one burner would be sufficient enough for it, unless it was a big burner. Which is another thing. Has anyone ever seen a regular burner scaled up that big? Would it have to be forced air at that point? If so would it be best to just get one made for ribbon style for the many little flames apposrd to one big one. I was also think that I'd probably use at least 3 1" layers of kaowool since it's so big, I definitely don't need all that space. At first I was concerned about how big and heavy it is but I also think it can be an advantage in that it isn't going anywhere unless I want it to.

So, my neighbor brought home this big cylinder that has got about a 4+ inch hole already in the middle of it. It's about 15 inches long and 12 or so inch inside diameter. The pictures I have are sub-par, but I guess that's what I get for asking my girlfriend to take them and being in a hurry and not looking at them. So I guess just ignore the yard stick. I'm gonna get a few better ones in a bit. Anyway, I'm wondering the ideal way if any to go about turning this into a forge. Would the hole that's there be able to be used for a single big burner? Maybe a round ribbon style burner even? Never seen one but that's about the only idea I have. Other than not using that hole for the burner and just making new holes for a 2 burner. I'm not sure what it was originally, he works for a gas/oil drilling company and they didn't have the paperwork on the piece so they couldn't use it. So he made it dissappear. It's pretty heavy probably half inch or thicker walls all one piece. There is a bar in the middle of the hole but it could easily be cut out. To add, I'm mainly just looking for ideas on burners for something like this.

He just did a Q&A not long ago, I see why he doesn't talk much in his videos. He seemed a little awkward. lol But he did say how his name is pronounced. He said it translates to Thor Bear, so his name now is "Thunder Bear".