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The Jeff

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  1. There was a Berlin Machine Works, is it part of a bigger machine?
  2. I second what frosty said. Be safe things can be rebuilt or replaced. Will be praying
  3. Maybe not to constructive, but theres a good bit of info in the Forges section.
  4. Not my idea, but I saw this on a press similar to yours. I also saw some that had the dies bolted in.
  5. I haven't made a folder yet, but I have made a template from mdf to see how everything fits up, moves and how or if the lock works. I may be way off but that may be a easy starting place, if I'm wrong let me know.
  6. https://sgs.princeton.edu/news-announcements/news-2023-07-21
  7. I had actually done that, I saw them sanded as you said and etched and showed up a little darker then the surronding steel.
  8. I have read about the dye, thanks for the suggestion. I etched a peice for a few minutes and it had a few darker lines runing through and wasn't sure if they were cracks.
  9. I don't have enough experience to know one way or the other. If a peice of steel has cracks ( that you cant otherwise see) , will they show up when you etch it?
  10. Could you get an eye bolt around the legs and bolt it through the body?
  11. You can use wood, it will burn down to charcoal. But go easy on the blower or you will blow the smaller peices of charcoal out of the forge.
  12. http://www.vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=5105 Link to Wells Bros. & Co. catalog from 1895, has the little giant #4 on page 84 if you click the pdf.
  13. Vintage machinery.org has some general info about wells bros. & co.
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