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** Mark Aspery GO'S way into depth on teaching GOOD hammer control in his first book & I am sure its on U Tube somewhere also He is one of the Master Smiths that can teach good hammer control & thats not as easy as It sounds It takes watching how you hold the hammer - the swing of it the -strike & the return done right It will save you body He has 3 books out now WELL worth ANY price !!! & very well done ! & if you can ever see him you will agree !

search for John Emmerling U-tube + web page , He also should be able to tell where to get plans for kinyon

you are a Red Neck Blacksmith if you forge up a bear trap & use it for a door bell, please push here well here you lol

I can just see Frosty doing this -- Hay I want to try out for you're band, OK what do you do ? well I am an Anvilist -- A WHAT ??? Hay you got a Forklift I will show you LOL :D Hmm zilaphone sp ? made out of anvils that would be new LOL :rolleyes: you need a crane though

NOW that is just sick LOL :o

wood stove blowers work - & build or get an air gate talk to a sheet metal guy where to get one

the drum er needs to work the anvil not the other guy lol

I am sorry you're side draft forge will not last long!! side blast twerr forges are a English design mostly - you need an air pipe - with in a pipe of water & a water tank to keep that from melting the end of the air pipe thats in the fire-- ck out the forge page on this site for more info on that this is my portable side twerr forge the shop forge is the same thing but bigger with a side draft hood talk to a smith there ,most have side draft set ups so I understand in England mine is a copy of that design from an English Master smith here in the USA & works well ! I use coke in it & its 20 + years old now-- Ok it get a paint job ever so often :wub: & add to.s theres a hammer & tong rack & table now a days that bolt to it & someday a post vice LOL when I get the time it all comes apart & fits in the main forge pan for demos last pic is old its been rework since has table also No leg vice yet DARN ! LOL

Welcome to the site, do you know about the North West blacksmith association of OR - or the California Blacksmiths association ? Here on the REAL !! north-coast & southern Or - we are known as the Jefferson Smiths part of the CBA & for you folks in central Ca youre not ! north enough LOL & youre 8 Hrs south Hmm ?

I would think about a side draft set up the pipe is there 12" is a good draft some hood work & youre there

I have a forge very much like what you have, but it does have a fire pot that the bottom is broken out & no worth fixing the pan is in real good shape though SO my fix was to cut the bottom 5" off a lg ox tank about 8" OD that I had in the scrap pile & then weld 3 bolt tabs on it, then cut the old fire pot off the pan its OD was a little smaller than the tank piece I drill some bolt holes in the pan & bolt the fire pot to the pan I also re-cut the hole bigger before that with a plasma torch witch will cut cast nicely and now I can make a BIG gong someday out of the left over tank & hang & yep there noisy thats what I would do to that forge then you have a good useable forge & !! you don't have to worry about the cast fire pot breaking / cracking later in down the road Steve's Welding

thats not worth fixing !!!1 find a welder & have him fab one up use that one for a pattern Steve's welding

as jm said right tip is needed I am not sure what you have there so take torch to a welding supplier and ask

Ed the first thing I would do is run a test weld & see what works stick - Mig - braze -don't look like a tig project to me then prep & repair and in a test weld yes you take a chisel & try and remove you're test weld Steve's Welding

Are you in THE real Northern Ca or the want to be northern Central LOL or Southern ?? My self I am on the coast @ the Ca / Or line after that you're in Brooking Or ?? any smiths in Or north of me around on the coast OR ? / close ?

there is alot of info on hammer control here & U tube have you look into this ? to us a hammer one must know how to throw it !! its not just hitting something ! Google Mark Aspery & others here here also I LOVE it/not ! when a journeyman carpenter tells me how to use a hammer LOL & did it all his life & has NO Idea :mellow: & can't be retrain, until I stated smithing a hammer was a hammer you hit things with it as a welder I use Lg hammers I HAD NO IDEA LOL ! I now do & try to control right & Left :)

Well Monday I off load press off trailer & into shop It now sets in the forge area next to the #33 yang for now need to re-work/update 3 Ph wiring to the back area again LOL put the motor back on & is working Down the road will re-work controls for foot pedal & do some hard line update just cause heres a pic of area

? what is the sq cut out on the side used for -- tooling ?? if so what kind nice work

hay Mike if John is gona be down here YOU Bet ! press will move to inside the shop this week hook up runing ?? got a busy week ahead & this just mite make me run a main elec line to the back area I need anyhow more time though & sup ?? you bringing that anvil down to fix ? & I hope to play glass blower trainee :wub: so metal stuff boring LOL & theirs a ping pong table this year so I here, you or anyone else is TOAST ! dun deal :D hay got pics of that pump ? sounds fun I can tell you some storys of things gone Opps with this press no one hurt thank God ! its got power !! PS got fork lift !!!

Today was a good day !! one of my Mentors Don built a heavy H frame 65 ton press some 20 + years ago for are shop there was 5 folks when we started 3 auto 2 welder me & don He was here for years working together until he left for his own shop we ran outa room ! & don likes to work by him self he passed this last Dec 25 I will always miss him ! we moved the press today its here where it belongs again I was not into blacksmithing or hot work back then :( but now will put her next to the PH & I can see HOT work for her coming up ! the press is tall than the inside of Dons garage with chain hoists we were able to get it out safely & on trailer

Well 60 degs here still covered with coal dust & more than one Beer ! :wub: HO cell phone OFF LOL !

HW -- you have said what size rod you used - now what were you welding thickness wise / job ? & did it penetrate good ?? by any chance can it tig aluim / Ac High frec I don't like 110 V welder's at all have used a few Lincoln miller to name some TWO under powered unless you are welding sheet metal or thin stuff ! BUT ? things change I am a 220 V welder LOL since 1976 STEVE'S Welding & Fab

are you using coal or coke ??

Dave what I did with my 300 wt PW 1-1/4 hardie was to weld a piece of sq tubing in it so all 1" hardie tools will work on all 3 anvils I have on one anvil I went from 15/16 hardie to 1" with a die grinder & file was worth the time all my tools are set to 1"

OH that's A Thingamajig for sure :rolleyes: