Everything posted by M.J.Lampert
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picking a touchmark/logo
messed around a little and i will agree that the serif fonts look much better though when the combined letters are centered the m is slightly out of line i tried all the fonts on the site (a meager 12) and couldn't get that quirk out still think it looks nice another idea that came to mind was to use just the letters but after thomas' comment i think that might be a bad choice
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Show me your Blacksmith's Apron
mines just a 30$ welding apron from Princess Auto (Canadas version of harbor freight) cowhide with Kevlar stitching and plastic buckles
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Show me your Blacksmith's Apron
negative(-) means its cold 0(32F) to 9(48F) is chilly 10(50F) to 25(77F) is nice and 30(86F) plus is to hot negative 40 both ways is the same (too flipping cold) farhenhite i need to convert to understand so i get where your coming from i personally wear a t-shirt year round a long-sleeve just goes on top for a cold day and shorts come out after 25C i use yards feet and inches steady and precision work i do is usually in .001"
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Most useful tool in your shop ?
bench grinder with a 80grit 10" wheel to clean out coldshuts (kept about 4 paces from anvil), a tape measure, soapstone, and a wire-brush
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picking a touchmark/logo
so I've decide on a name for my smithy "Two Mountain Ironworks". Now i am trying to decide on my touchmark/logo i have narrowed it down to two options but cant get past these 2 choices. I am looking to get a 1/2" stamp from Columbia Marking tools with whatever my final decision is. if y'all wanna throw your word in that would be appreciated thanks M.J.Lampert
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Built my anvil stand
duckkisser when i started i went straight to knives (not a smart move) then after a few months I came here and started learning did 2 or three months without tongs and greatly improved. Go to your metal supplier and buy a length of mild steel (1/4", 3/8", or 1/2" square) and then use them at a length of about 2-4 ft you don't need tongs and can practice tapers and making S or J hooks believe me get that to pat and you will be much better off, until you learn how to work the steel tongs can be a hinderance. learn from those on here like Frosty, Thomas, Irondragon and all the other old guys you never know when you no longer can there used to be a curmudgeon tag on the smartest ones (updates did away with that) i almost never got the pleasure of learning from Frosty and Thomas is always at odds with his diabetes. They love to pass their knowledge but look it up first, they've answered a lot of questions here already and don't always appreciate answering questions for the 1000ths time or one that's so vague that there's a million ways it can get an answer. REASERCH and then give a PRECISE question looking for one thing then ask another on another subject after M.J.Lampert
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Kanca 50(110lb)
Thomas i did that on the weekend stamping a piece of work and the 3# hammer and missed by 1/2in my thumb was found under i had a string of characters out of my mouth to the effect of "!@##@!##$#@@#$%^&*^^%%"
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What did you do in the shop today?
the shelf is not anchored as there are shelves directly behind it with items my father may need to get to they are also two piece posts so number 2 shelf has to stay there and number1 cant go lower as the 30# tank wont fit and my father basically said I need to clean up my section or clean out. I can easily change the level of the shelves to different setups if this doesn't work out and each shelf is supposed to support 600# nice wrench karambits every one
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What did you do in the shop today?
got some shelving up and filled immediately got that filled so now the plan is to make some hooks and brackets to fit in the rivet holes of the angle iron nothing fancy but enough to do the job one done and a few more to do later on also spent quite a few hours Sunday aligning and then making a pulley for a zipline bored out to have about .001-.002" friction fit with the bearing M.J.Lampert
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What did you do in the shop today?
The History of Welding | MillerWelds here is a very good study going back to the blacksmithing roots
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What did you do in the shop today?
yes that would also have been a factor as tanks must be thick to withstand high pressures i have recently taken interest in the pacific theater after studying the European theater for a few years. multiple Japanese commanders said beforehand that japan could expect 6 months of victories against the US and Britain before they would see major interference and if the war lasted more than three years japan was sure to loose
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What did you do in the shop today?
ok electric arc would almost make the most sense as oxygen and acetylene would take over precious space on cargo ships and the USS Arkansas had 8 steam boilers for power and propulsion already so only rod would need to be brought over
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What did you do in the shop today?
at that time it would have been oxy-acetylene welding correct?
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Kanca 50(110lb)
ok thanks you that's kind of what i thought but wanted to be sure this one is the size of my thumb or a little more
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Kanca 50(110lb)
ok also should i add more of a point to the horn or make a tool for the hardy hole if i need to make smaller diameter holes?
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Kanca 50(110lb)
looking at stand designs on the dedicated thread sadly the first 2 hands of pages are short on images Show me your anvil stands - Page 35 - Stands for Anvils, Swage Blocks, etc - I Forge Iron looking at this one https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/51596-show-me-your-anvil-stands/?do=findComment&comment=519256 also like this design https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/51596-show-me-your-anvil-stands/?do=findComment&comment=469929 both would work well as my anvil has no good point to tie into many others to sort through before i decide finally i see a lot of anvils have extra chain wrapped around I've hear that this reduces the ring, is this true? M.J.Lampert
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What did you do in the shop today?
if i could average out our daily temperature would be nice we bounced back and cooled down near noon then warmed right back up to more than the morning if it would just be a nice smooth curve... oh well to much to ask I guess
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Kanca 50(110lb)
i will see if there is any coating on it i found similar rebound across the face varying at most 15% IMHO M.J.Lampert
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Just a photo.
Beautiful I've had many times where I wised to have a camera to capture a neat sight
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It followed me home
and once again i learned more in three minutes from you George than half a dozen Wikipedia pages and an hour thanks sir though in my searches it appears the Wyoming had all her guns removed in Philadelphia another neat side-note Omaha beach was the first time the USS Arkansas ever fired in anger at 05:52 June 6 1944
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What did you do in the shop today?
come north to Canada I could put that under my fathers 50 ton just don't tell him
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What did you do in the shop today?
you got a press? or a 20# hammer may do it Removed quote. Please review rules for use of quotes
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Kanca 50(110lb)
with taxes payed on it and it comes at 8.14 CAD which at the moment i type this converts to 6.32 USD