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I really want to get a vtx1800. I'd be happy finding a motor and trans tho custom soft tail frame with a springer front. would make a great highway mile eater

it's a good bike. love the thing. almost bought a bigger peice of metal at 121 pounds but my ratchet strap wasent rated that high. I might still go get it next week. it's not a scrap yard but the end cuts and stuff is available to the public at for steel 85 cents a pound witch ain't horible

2000 honda shadow sabre vt1100cy2

wound up getting this from a metal supply shop in the city. 40 pounds mild carbon steel I'll build a stand for it tomorrow

at first I tried to drill and chisel a hole for the sledge head. the wood split. secound attempt I tried to use my hole saw and cut a hole in a smaller peice of wood that I would then nail to the top of the post. the wood split. so I did the exhuast pipe option. and then the wood split. wood hates me or something

well I've never been above being a laughing stock I'll see if I can find any bulldozer repair shops

do I just walk up to them and ask if they got any giant chunks of steel laying round?

could it be heat treated at all? cant find anything decent at my scrap yard. its mostly washing machines and thin sheet scrap couldent even find anything that looked decent to stick in the forge ended up buying some bar stock at lowes when i picked up a clearance grill for my new forge

so the sledge hammer head on a post didnt last to long. the post split while i was forging. oops. sooooooo question for you steel experts here, would hot rolled A-36 steel be a good steel for a anvil? i can get a 3 inch round one foot or 2 foot long piece for a good price (one foot is 47 bucks and 2 feet is 85 not bad in my opinion) but ill pass on it if its not a decent metal to use as an anvil

yea that'll take a little getting used to.

Works alot better to. this thing gets HOT. this one will last me awhile. the last one after awhile the bottom would plug up and kill the airflow killing the fire. this one once it's goin it's on. and I'm gettin bright orange and got the 3/8s steel rod I was workin to yellow where the last one I could manage a medium to bright red on the same rod so I'm happy (atleast untill I melt one of the tongs on a stake fork I was making)

yea a cutout on the other end is a good idea. I might just use the holes already there and slot em out and bring the opening down so I can keep the rigidity ontop to help support the lid

the hair dryer has 2 settings and then I can open or close the bottom as much or little as I like. it seemed to really like low setting with the bottom closed off

finished building my secound forge. built out of a grill and used lessons from my first forge to make this one and it rocks. acedently melted what I was making. oops. the fuel is tractor supply coal. the blower is a hair dryer from dollar general the fire pot is the brake rotor from my first forge and the pipeing is a 3 inch exhuast pipe with a 2 1/4 coupler welded into the side for the t pipe. whole thing is miles ahead of the last forge. input? suggestions to make it better?

so after using it today it'll do for now. it's on the list to upgrade tho but it'll work for now