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Jup, we do that a lot. And i hate it. When i was a cycle mender i refused to sell bikes from a brand named "Gazelle" because they designed their bikes in way that made it impossible to repair anything, you could only replace stock factory parts, not even off brand versions (front fender with integrated light would cost someone about 80 euro). We just love to throw everything away and destroy it is quick as possible.

Sounds like he was one of those "special needs" kind of person. We had a few of those when i was a hydraulic mechanic, interns who wanted to take a "shortcut" trough the machine we where building, while it was turned on... (bending, punching, joining. All at 20m/s) Was a machine sort of like this one, only this one is slower and much smaller, some interns had to be stopped multiple times because the thought they would be fast enough. (machine we where building was for G.E. about 70 meter long)

Are there no faceshields with clean air in the USA? you could use the faceshield, headband and hose from that and just use the motor from a old extractor hood. I am building something like that in my shed

i have had good experience with my Moldex 7002 with p3 filters, even with a beard it works very good and is comfortable to wear for hours on end. It is also compact enough to wear with a face shield / welding mask

True, saw it happen many times with people sharpening TIG electrodes, best cases went trough fingers, worse cases went deep into legs. I was always lucky, i worked in a factory with just 3 other very grumpy old men. It could listen/learn or go home. 1. rotating things are deadly 2. if it falls, let it fall 3. if you use the crane, both hands are on the control 4. before you start rotating your pressure vat on the Welding Rotators, find a way to freely run away. 5. always use your welding mask, even when tacking (learned that the hard way) Seen vast fall from the rotators, seen other students lose his fingers because he wanted to stop a 6x2 meter plate about 20mm thick from moving, he got his hand on it right when the plate swung against the wall. Seen people forget that big pipes with flanges on them fall when you open up the bench vice (foot goes crunch) But the worst one to this day is seeing my classmate return after 6 months in a hospital to get his face back after he headbutted the lathe, faces should have a nose, just saying.

Always nice, non technical jobs deciding for the technical jobs...

True, in that case the leather would protect instead of getting pulled into the grinder (did not even thought about leather sleeves, never had the need for them) . Seen to much bad stuff happen with cloth overalls or jackets getting caught in rotating devices. (classmate headbutted the lathe after his sleeve got caught, was not pretty)

You do not want to meet my dogs then

never wear gloves when you use anything that rotates, don't even wear long sleeves. Same goes for loose clothing/hair.

Jeremy Fielding on YouTube has a lot of information about reusing old electric motors from all sort of sources, making a belt sander yourself is not that hard. But like TP said, those belt will wear down and cleaning them is not the biggest problem, its that just wear out and break. The wider the belt, the more abuse it can take, but that also increases the cost. Working the entire width of the belt makes it last longer. Over here in the Netherlands you can sometimes find some real nice factory equipment that are auctioned off because the company went bust, maybe look into something like that.

Don't be this guy.

Dude, that is one sick looking forge. Great step for step tutorial also.

Even little angle grinders can be dangerous, some one off my classmates almost cut his hand off with one because he was using it one handed (great idea) and the blade got stuck in the cut he was making. Launched its way right trough 30% of his wrist. I was always very happy with the pneumatic angle grinders we used in the factory, never had safer tools.

Thank you, I don't know if this is also the case over in the USA, but almost every factory invents their own name for a tool, and i never seen that was not self made. Off topic, saw a beautiful leg vice on a second hand site a few days ago, until I saw some barbarian had cut the leg off. And still asked about 120 euro for it...

Cant be to thin? Try being 2 meter tall and only weighing 68 kg, that is unhealthy thin.

Used to work at a company where we welded big pressure vats. We also tested said vats for leaks, smaller ones (up to 6 meter and 1,5 meter across could go into the bunker (37,5 bar air pressure) and the big ones we filled with water (up to 300 bar). Hear ones of them fail in the bunker, the bolts that held a glass viewing plate in place turned into rockets. Really glad we had that bunker. There was also this one time i was testing this really big vat, maybe 15 meter long and 3 meter across. Just got it to 150 bar and had to climb on top of it to disconnect the pressure hose. As i am sitting there closing the valve with a pair of plier i remember myself thinking, what the is with the wobble in this valve (17 at that time, did not know anything), next moment i am looking at a water fountain about 5 meters high. Took me a solid 15 seconds to really understand what just happened, took me another 15 to realize i was no longer holding my pliers. Turns out that the valve mechanism was only kept in place by a single ring, that ring failed and the internal mechanism went up, trough the roof. Missed my face by about 10 cm or so. Found my pliers laying on the factory floor 20 meters behind me.

When i was a welder we where thought that cylinders should always be mounted vertical so that in case of something going wrong they could take off, which is far better then them flying around at eye level. 3000 psi? make that 4300 psi. Seen those for both air and shielding gas. On the video, could be me, but are those grind and weld marks on the bottom? Exploding gas pressure tanks always go spectacular, 50 Liter at 50 bar is about 250 Liters of air, if that volume finds a way out, it will all go out in a split second. Never ever seen or hear of a air compressor failing, but that is mainly because in factory's they but a dehumidifier next to the compressor, air goes from the dehumidifier to the compressor, dry air means no rust. Maybe this on got some condensation going, which pooled at the bottom and rusted its way through the metal.

I know, but the only way to get a job over here is by having papers. Having one diploma weighs harder then 10 years of experience.

but since dwarves wear more armor, it takes the dragon even longer to chew him up. Enough time to reroll a rogue and hide.

The kaowool is not the problem, i found stuff like that. 7 meter long rolls. Its the refractory that is the problem. The import tax over here is ridiculous, since they cant open all packages, they just guess what i would be worth and give you the bill. My wife ordered a book from Vincent Price his daughter, payed about 35 euro for it and had to pay almost 50 euro on tax. Sending it as a could work, unless they have enough reason to open it anyway (since we are talking about powder here)

Its not about outrunning the dragon, its about outrunning the dwarf right?

been looking into that, the ones with shops work with coal, and the dutch blacksmithing forum is completely dead. And the ones that posted in the past just bought a gas forge.

Nice touch with the sliding doors, really like the design. Like i said, i could find some stuff, but it is all rated at temperatures lower then 1200 C, since it need to protect the bricks i take it it needs a lot more heat then the bricks? That would be a ceramic oven, or a pottery oven. Will keep looking, and start just calling companies, the internet is not my friend at the moment.

Funny to see this, i want to build a forge, and all the stuff you guys talk about is not available in the Netherlands. And ordering from America is made very expensive by our government.

Thank you, that is why my design also clamps the top and lower half together, M10 treaded rods can take a lot of force. And i plan on make metal frames that keep the top and bottom bricks together. I have been looking very hard for refractory, and i can find some things. I can find mortar, cement and concrete. I take that the mortar is useless and i should go for cement or concrete. But from what i can find those only withstand up to 1200 C. Both Matrikote or Plistex are not for sale over here, and i can find nothing about kiln over here, since it translates into the dutch word for oven. And adding coating just gives me black paint for the outside of you cast iron stove.