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Ross_FL

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  1. $800 and I gotta build I myself?? Uhhh, thanks, I guess.
  2. They actually do have S5, W1 and W2, at least their catalog says they do. I talked to them earlier today, they wanted over $100 for a 24" flat of O1, and the W2 wasn't that far behind. Not to mention they acted like it was a hassle to sell anything less then $50000 worth of metal. It's okay though, just fund a set of leaf springs from a Chevy for $20. :)
  3. Yeah, I'm talking strictly for a conversation piece. TO be honest, I think it would cooler to have a full meteor or cross section n the end table, but if I came across one of these at a show somewhere.... I don't think I would be able to resist.
  4. I wasn't going to fool around the scrap yard if I can just go get 1060 at the Alro, it's less then $10 for enough to make 2 knives. I just don't know why they don't have 1095, they literally have everything else you could imagine.
  5. Tomorrow I'm heading to a local metals supply store that also has a retail odds and ends outlet. People I've talked to said it's really nice. Im looking at their catalog though and I don't see what I want, I was hoping to find a 5160 or 1095. Alro Steel Any suggestions? Maybe the 1045.
  6. yeah, you got a point. maybe the golden butter knife from that movie with Eddie Murphy, but that's it.
  7. I'm sure most of you are familiar with these, but if you're not, check them out. Cosmic material forged.
  8. Thanks Bob, HF scratched off the list. I bought a heat gun there that worked for 15 minutes and its that same orange color as the grinder so I was wondering if it was the same cheap crap. Then again, the heat gun was $3, so that's about one use worth!!
  9. HF has a belt grinder for $75, it looks like this HF grinder I'm guessing it's garbage, but does anyone happen to have experience with this model?
  10. ALS army navy is a great place to have FFL transfers.
  11. Yeah, I saw that, guess I can also scratch gloves and tongs off the list. And if you can make a good living in Africa making blades and other primitive weapons........ Hmmmmmm
  12. Coming from a construction engineering background, I would just pour a 12" - 18" thick monolithic 5k @ 28 days mix with a super plasticizer additive. I don't know how big you want your building though. I don't know what a power hammer calls for but I do know what I've seen done on the above slab 24 hours after it was poured. You should be fine. You could always bump up to a 7k, but just make sure you tell them super-p. This is the mix we've used to support $50 million dollar GE gas turbine generators.
  13. The production quality of that video is really impressive, thanks for sharing.
  14. As far as the anvil, it's about 45-50 lbs. It's the base spacer plate for a concrete compressive strength machine a friend of mine borrowed from their CMT lab. I've hit it as hard as I can with that hammer you see in the picture and it doesn't dent any. It's a $300 hunk of metal so I'm guessing it's pretty solid. I actually have a piece that screws into the bottom of it that I can use to tension it down to whatever I set it on.
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