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noto if you have to sharpen youre shovels In MY book that means you need to hire someone eles to use IT !! LOL as for handles on them I have replaced all wood one's I brake all the time with EMT elec conduit a good coat of red oxide primer & there Done leave out in the rain all year hammer handles lin seed oil & turp 3 to 1 if I remember right -- paint heads flat black with clear coat No rust looks good to easy to redo when needed ! same trick for all the anvils to

are you Sure ! its cast Iron have you ck = tested ? one way to ck is with cutting torch if it cuts then its not cast iron & thats Better ! looks like cast steel hard to say from the pic though if its cut able then you have some good stock supply PS --- a lot of folks don't know one type of metal from the other !!!! happens to me all the time -- well its steel on the phone then turns out its really Aluin @ the shop My Rule #1 Bring to shop let me see it !! then I can tell How ? to deal with it !

LOL Jim I will stick with 1 shop Stuff as it is the heating bill is better & the walk from one shop to the next & back LOL & then witch shop would my wolfs park there bu-t by the wood stove LOL

Yea Hammer control LOL !!! Ouch LOL another one to ck out is Mark Aspery sp ? every smith or carpenter needs to understand hammer control ! = how to use a hammer ! this can of nails / worms is talked in many threads often here -- watch & listen and then practice with a 2x4 & nails you will get the swing of it & the grip hopefully

welding supply biss they can get any temp you need if you need to KNOW a certain temp like say 350 degs I would get a 350 & a 300 temp stick once the 300 melts you know youre very close to 350 degs

that is a high carbon cast steel tooth -- you mite get away with 110-18 or better arc rod pre & post heat a must ! weld will want to shrink pulling away from tooth = crack / cool slowly 100% weld they are bolted or pined in I have had to weld them in when tooth bracket is badly worn sooner or later weld gives

OK all 3 of those movies are on my done seen list & like to watch them again every so often PS -- I want one of those Hyd units it would make picking up heavy steel -- Easy No forklift or crane boom needed

another good drawing broad set up I use for layout work is a 4' X 8' white wall board the kind you see bathrooms it cleans up easily & Dry erase markers will work on it well ! I have one on the shop wall in the work area with a list of shop goals to get done - eqt repair needed - paying jobs supply's needed to order & so on PS -- Joel if you can't draw a scale you need to take an ART class Ha just had to

notown LOL I hope the nut is Fine threads -- Not the Nut that did it though sorry Steve ** Note to Brain never point you're finger @ an in pack gun you could get screwed OR a nail gun you just mite get ???? LOL

that many tools with No power switch or cord -- Scares me take them away !!!

for my 2 cents I have one of thoughts AND there Great !!! very useful forms

Thanks Thomas that makes sense now !!

you should have used never sizes ithat would come off easier LOL OUCH remember lefty lossie -- rigthy tieie tell the Wife were changing wedding rings to a new style now

acid dip for de-rusting ? or for patina -- what kind do you use

we have a few car body sheet metal tools here I just weld /Tig a hardie end 1"x1" sq on them & use there shape to from stuff off of some I welded 2 hardie ends on them so I can stand it up or lay it down as needed on the anvil THAT'S thinking Outa the box !!! I never have seen anyone else do that it gives you two tools for the price of one PS -- All my hardie tools are 1" & fit my 4 anvils I have so NO making the same hardie tool to fit the other anvil !

Hay Thomas for doing what kind of industrial use ??? Heat treat ? or what ? always wanted to know that -- still seams if a school has a forge its a Johnson trench forge I tried for years to get the weld shop to buy a better forge !!! finely just gave up just didn't want to spend around $700.-- or so woun't let me modify forge witch I can understand that so they use as is with short tongs You JUST can't fix dumb BUT THANK GOD !!!!!!!!!!! we still have shops class here !!!!!!1

I have mine set up with a trailer hitch plug in & the receiver is under my LG welding table tha wont move plug unit also works for Beverly shear & other bender tooling very convenient !! & another benefit there all portable to job site if needed just need the truck

are High school welding shop has a Johnson forge just like that & A Pain to work with !!! you have to use welder glove just to get @ steel - me not as bad, But the Kids not a good forge for a school to easy to get arm hairs burnt or worse an idea I saw on the web was someone cut the front sheet metal piece off & instead of putting steel in from the top they put it in from the front had better control that way & it looked like a good fix I have No Idea why those forges are design like they are ??? don't care for them much they look like they would be great for plate heating I just never tried that yet ???

I will hit the LIKE IT button to !!! Nice

cowboy I think you mite have the COE No#s backward ?? IF I remember right ??? Soft glass is 104 COE & must be cooled in a Kiln or it brakes !! Boro or pyrex is 96 COE you can let it cool down by its self THOUGH it will have High stress then boro & copper are about the same COE I have formed boro on copper rods as a test piece No kiln & it stayed together = test leafs --- have to try a cross now that I have colored glass rods one of my projects is to make a kiln this year !!!!!!

Hi Ray & Welcome to the site ! Interesting stuff KEEP it up ! Are you a lamp-worker or off hand Hot shop person or both ?? I have been playing with lampworking its alot of fun !!! Nortel Sq head + topper I want a CC someday I also want to put glass & metal together !!! I have been thinking of making a metal tree with glass leaves for one Idea looking for other Ideas also so do you have a torch if so what one ? I love to talk glass ! & learn ! -- you know of the melting pot = talkglass.com ? Steve's Welding & Fab - Blacksmithing - Glass & anything HOT

LOL DSW Ive been one Up-t Cold tell the authorities its for the kids radio control 4x4 truck sorta an Icy mountain road thing Hmm something on TV about that LOL

I am sorry that won't work in Ca OHSA code requires safety -- Paw railing on both sides & ramp angle to steep LOL

Now I liked to see how OSHA would handle a treadle pedal safety wise ??? That should be interesting ? what turn the hammer off don't use LOL = chain saw rubber chain LOL dummy proof !

WELL Finely 2015 is done with !! HAPPY New Year TO ALL !!-- I had 2 weeks off from home & drove 2000 + miles to the other end of Ca & back sure glad to be back @ home in rural Ca !!!!!!!!!!!!!!again -- now I remember why I left the BIG city again !!!!!! trip down south was not good !!! but made it there & back in ONE piece barely lol thanks to the powers that be !! starting the year out with a month of work needed to be done yesterday like 2015 1 thats good right ? LOL Friday 1-1-2016 shop forge day got called off wanted to start the year off right darn ! well are old weather is back !!! been raining most of 4 months now IS summer here yet want to dry out some LOL ** SO WHATS you're goals for 2016 ??? I am reworking my list now LOL looks like alot of tooling +