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Thomas, you may find this interesting. At THE Ohio State University researchers there a few years back have made magnets out of plastic. They had very little attraction but they proved it could be done. Frosty, many of my prints now will have : OD = .500, then down at the bottom of the page it will have tolerances listed as : .xx = +/- .01", .xxx = +/- .005, etc". ( i would give my left pinky toe to have a +/- .001" on the parts i am running right now, i got +/- .0003")

When i was a teenager me and a couple friends built a club house. Instead of going into the garage and getting a tape we used what we had, Little Kings beer bottles. Whole bottle, to the neck, to the top/bottom of the label, etc. was our measurements.

That looks exactly like my old sleds. If you looked at the runners they were triangle shaped with the flat on top. The side down were concaved. Like if you put a square bar in a swage made from 2 round bars, then forged to the shape of the swage. (at least that is my best description) Kind of shaped like the bayonets they used on the old Brown Bess muskets. Also the runners were quite narrow, like 3/8" maybe 1/2" narrow. Roy at Christ centered iron works on the youtube done a series of videos last year making one.

Pat, that has been discussed before. There is a formula that will figure the answer but a lot of variables to plug in. If i recall the answer came out to "not enough to worry about."

They must have carried much better bayonets than when i was in. When i was in Iraq i had my web gear on and jumped up on the front slope of the tank for a sit down. Well i sat down on my bayonet and broke it in half. When i pulled it out i remember looking at it thinking it was cast iron. Now i realize that it was actually just huge grain structure.

I was useful for once... dont tell the wife.

In the 50's today and yesterday. Temp is supposed to drop tonight. Oh what joy, i get to drive home from work at 2:30AM on icy roads. Also with the snow and ice we have had, all the rain and is now raining i will have to find a way back and forth to work. Most of the roads i usually take will be closed due to high water.

Thanks ya'll. I may have been a little quicker but early on i was having heat problems, i forgot to dump my ash when i cleaned out my fire pot and it was choking my airflow. JHCC, i did convert to inches. That metric mumbo jumbo just aint my thing. But mostly becuase i do not have any rulers in metric. For anyone wanting to convert that may not know 25mm is 1". Starting stock would be 4"x 1"x ~1/4" (6mm doesnt come out even so there abouts 1/4") Isolate 35mm = 1 3/8" approx. Draw out the cup to 60mm = 2 3/8" The shaft 135mm x 8mm = 5 3/8" x 5/16" The shaft tapered 210mm = 8 3/8" The cup at 20mm = ~3/4" Fold and weld 90mm = 3 7/8" When i was working on transmissions converting English to metric became 2nd nature to me. Now these are not exact measurements the exact measurements would be 25.4mm to the inch. But really for us working hot metal 25 should be close enough. For instance 3/8" is actually 9.52mm, but for us i think 10mm works. Hope this helps.

So here is my try at one. Cant film and it took me just under an hour.

This may be a dumb question but what is the spike by the cup for?

I just recently watched a video of a ringing rock in India. It is a good 10' x 5' rock. The video was about aliens and ancient tech, the kind of stuff that fizzy headed guy talks about. No i do not buy into that but like big foot and mountain monsters i am a sucker for stuff like that. Just fun to watch and a much needed break from the chaos in the world today. Anyway, back to mining tools, we used to have a couple of handled wedges we used to split wood with. The handle in them were also loose so it could be removed when you got the wedge set. Or at least that is how i was taught to use them. This post now makes me wonder if the were originally used to split rock with. Now this is purely speculation on my part but the way they used "ping feild" i would guess it is term that is modern for a field that had exploration for minerals. Today they would use ground penetrating radar or some such thing that would "ping" the location of those mineral. Kind of like a submarine will "ping" a ship to get its location. Like i said speculation as my knowledge of geology is : rocks are hard, my knowledge of mining is : it comes out of the ground ,and my knowledge of radar is : The machine that goes PING (the most expensive machine in the hospital). But given the context it seems reasonable : "a ping field where dozens of exploratory pits of different size were dug to seek out veins." Just in ancient times they had to dig as they had no machine that goes PING, that they leased back from the company the sold it to, that way it comes in under the monthly budget and not the capital account.

JHCC, how many times must we tell you hold the black end and hit the red end?

Oh boy you did it now, cant wait to see the responses to why the chicken was crossing the road. Used to see a lot of chickens on the side of the road between Denham Springs and Hamond on 12. They would come flying out of the trucks hauling them. Most of them did not make it to the other side either.

JHCC, when i glanced at the pic i thought it was a snake at first.

Not only here but i find a lot of inspiration from youtube. Black bear forge did i think a years worth of "Hook of the week" videos you may want to look at. Also what he does is mostly not real difficult stuff usually. Somewhere in the forums is a list of "IFI approved" youtube channels, may want to look at a few of them.

Les, thank ya. Irondragon, that spike you used looks much longer than the ones i have. I have seen those walking stick ax things a few times. Just recently i watched a movie from Ukraine that featured them prominently how ever "fokos" did not quite ring the bell i saw what they were called. Now that JHCC made that post i see that they called them "barkta" in Ukraine. JHCC, i like that concept for the rose. And nice rose also there Goods. Rojo, i have to ask is that handle comfortable for the knife? Just seems those ridges might bite you a little from the photo.

Today i got a request for something i had never done before. An ashtray. Many things i have had requested but this is a first. so i made a prototype just to figure out the process. Need to work on the "spout" thingy's. Also got the ax with the 5 layers Damascus bit etched. The other one is going to be one of theme walking stick ax things that i can not remember the name of. made from a RR spike and actually hardened pretty decent.

George, the orchards we used to have all kept bee's so a lot of the honey here was apple blossom. My favorite though is wild flower. It has a subtle and not overpowering flavor. Which may change from state to state becuase i am sure that they have different flowers growing in Cali than Ohio. Macintosh, or what we call farmers apples here is my favorite apple. Kind of a sour apple and not overly sweet like most in the grocery store are. Being they are grown here in Ohio and that state up north they can be found when in season pretty commonly. And of course the farmers markets. So things started thawing out some. Went out to the shop yesterday and noticed a huge wet spot on the floor, not near the huge hole in the roof. The water in my slack tank of course froze. The ice managed to push the bottom out of my barrel. So i got to empty it. Cant wait to see what all i have dropped into it. I know there is a punch in there somewhere i dropped a couple days before it froze.

Thomas, they make very little of their own ice cream any more. Back a few years ago a couple got unpasteurized milk and gave it to their infant child. The child got sick of course and they sued Youngs over it. After that Youngs quit making any of their own ice cream, cheese, and no longer process the milk. If you get a cone or a shake from the counter that is still made there but what they sell by the gallon, pint or what ever is made by Reiter. Black raspberry ice cream on top of a brownie covered in hot fudge. Like pecan pie, makes my teeth hurt thinking about it but oh so good. I remember when i was younger that there used to be several dairies in the area that you could get fresh dairy products from. Alas, like the orchards, they are almost all gone now. I miss the orchards also. Apples that were oh so tasty and the honey, oh man... honey in the grocery store has a bitter after taste where as from an orchard is was just sweet pleasure. Nectar of the gods. You can also actually taste the difference in the honey from the different flowers that the bees made the honey from.

Thomas, they do not go every year but they have been a few times. They also go to the fall farm festival where we get the pumpkin doughnuts from. My daughter and my x-wife both worked at Youngs.

JHCC, let us know when she gets it open. My mom may want to make a trip to her store. She is mostly a quilter but her and my aunt travel all around to stores that sell stuff like yarn, fabric, thread, etc. And i mean all around, it is nothing for them to plan trip across 2 or 3 states just to go and look. Edit: forgot to also say lets us know what the store will be called.

How about macramé? Does that count? As close to knitting as i can get.

I am about an hour and a half out of Indianapolis. Always welcome. I have to correct myself. I was calling the parts used to make a double flare "anvils" they are called "dies". Sorry for any confusion. They go into the pipe then the screw part is put on top. The die will fold the end of the pipe down and inside to make a bubble flare. The srcew part is then put in the bubble and pressed down to fold it in. Double flares are also useful when connecting hose to a pipe. The flare of course will hold the pipe better but the double flare will not have the sharp edge that a single flare has. And trust me that edge will cut through a piece of hose in no time. The little black pieces are the dies, the stem goes inside the pipe. There is a divot on the other side not shown for the point of the press to go in. That flaring tool is also upside down.

To do hydraulic lines with it you will need the anvils to make double flares with. When you find them at garage sales, flea markets, etc. it is usually the anvils that are missing. There should be one for each size of line you can flare. The new style flaring tools are hydraulic and will make many different style flares. Quite an expensive tool but man are they sweeeet. One thing to look for on the old used flaring tools is inside the holes it should have "teeth" over time those will become worn down, especially on the larger diameters, and then when you try and flare the pipe it will just slip through.

If you would like the number to my supplier i get it much, much cheaper. How ever i buy by the ton. $215 a ton was the last price i got on it. Good stoker coal also. That comes to i think $0.11/lb i believe. To get it delivered i have to buy at least a ton. If i go to him he will sell what ever at $200/ton. So half ton would be $100 and so on. A ton of coal will last me about 9 months. And that is running my forge 20+ hours a week. He is located in Vandalia up by the Dayton airport. Or if you get up near Dayton hit me up and i'll fill a bag or 2 for you from the pile in my barn.