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Thats the "fun" part with elektricity. You spend weeks working and people only see working outlets and ask, why does it take so long.

Have a picture of anything? I have a devil forge. Setup was easy and get plenty of heat.

You didn't come over? Thas only 1u30 from Ghent. Or you mean not the charleroi in belgium?

I can think that some regions are using anvils with hardy holes because they are "new" and need to buy more new stuff and some regions have a lot of "old" tools and traditions so they stayed longer with the older technology.

check german and french (and belgian) sources. they have a lot of info as well and a rich blacksmithing history It is old in human terms, but not that old in blacksmith history terms.

i was there for the beer, the tour was nice.

If you ever get over to Belgium and Nederlands, go to La Trappe. It is trapist monastry who does tours in the monastry and the brewing. They share nice details about their life and how things used to be and sometimes still are. Oh and they have beer.

Ah ok, so because you have too, not because you want too. I know the feeling you discribe. Have done sometimes otherwise. But also have burned my fingers. Installing cableglands on already installed cables can be $&%! job.

i'm wondering why you don't use a cabletray? Seems less work to me. 1 time to put up the tray instead of all those conduct with bends and everything that needs to be on correct length and deburred so the cable can pulled in afterwards. around here, you see those often, you tyrap the cables to the tray and after you can close the tray with sheetmetal panels to protect them, if needed. In my shared workspace, there is also an cabletray with lighting attached to it. Was easy to install my new powercable from the main switchboard to my own switchboard (5G4 cable 3 fase + earth) so at least I have more than only 2 outlets).

Actually friday, but basketweaves and round ends (no picture) by welding a piece of squarebar to the roundbar and rounding it.

When it is that cold, i don't care about converting or scales. It is to cold

Ow f@@@ nasty way. Unfortunatly explains why both. Pfff. Condolance to Robb and Bunty.

The hardest to convert is probably temperature. There both a very different scale and they are harder to "see". With weight or length you can visualise and get a rough estimate if you are close. But temperature ia harder. I have a feeling for the mesurements (don't say I'm fluent in converting, not even close) amd know if i'm close or wrong. Weight because i use never is harder but temperature is a weird one for me. 100F, hot, cold, superhot, you will burn yourself when touching something? 100C is boiling water, so don't touch hot. Same with 20F. Do i need wintergloves? Is water freezing? Can i lick it? No idea, I have to use a converter. Ok i know that 20F is wintergear cold and 100F is very sweaty warm. But on an engine no idea what to expect.

No option to use a bolt you can fix to the sheetmetal and screw in there? I have those poprivets with threat inside, perfect for sheetmetal if you have place.

Made my first baskettwist today. Have 2 more blanks already welded up but have to do the twisting. And one will become the handle of a coalrake (or something similar). Went surprisingly smooth the forgewelding. Did not see that one comming. Thats why I welded all my blanks, ride the lucky streak. No pictures today, because I forgot

I thing irondragonforge also use a flywheel as a base. I have a square tube 100x100x1,5 mm on an octagon steel plate (diameter 800mm, thickness 8mm), placed offcenter so i can stand on the plate. Filled the tube with sand/dirt/floor sweepings because it moved a bit to much to my liking. The extra weight helped. My floor is not flat so yeah. Can be wobly from time to time ( and spot to spot)

Subtitels has more to do with the soundediting than with your hearing. On youtube you can find smarter people than me explaining it nice.

Depends. I used them in the field to replace hoses on escavators with assistance of a technician of the company I worked for. If you use the bigger service clubs, they like to change only the hoses and connections. Removing and installing is your fun. But some remove motors, rams, ... and take to workshop for repairs.

We have these a lot. But for bigger connections better call the guys to make sure they have enough hose with them. I think almost all hydraulic shops have at least one van with the whole set in it.

There is a reason why most hydraulic guys I know drive around with a van full of little boxes for all the connections. Crazy sometimes.

Steve, thanks for the explanation.

And stupid question maybe, but what is the reason behind the no to commercial links?

Blue that is something not only in machining but more general. They need button pushers in larger quantities and a small group of smart people. The last group lives in an computerized world detached from the rest of the world, only ease of manufacturer and easy to use the final product for the endconsumer. So you get weird designs on stuff, hard to maintain. And the maintenance guy needs to be more and more skilled and smarter to fix those thinks. Or stuff gets made as throw-away. I have worked many years in repair business and the button pushers are useless, because they can't or won't think. And the smart people are not hands on to see a problem and fix it, they want to replace.

Google translate does a good job. I understand french when spoken and can speak. But writing and reading is something else. Google translate is as good (as long as the sentence you start from is a proper sentence)

Ha thanks. Be carefull aboit your excessive quoting! And than it goes good for a few weeks