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Indeed that year my nickname was Hammerhead:) That is indeed a tiny helve hammer, runs off a ni-cad. Each year I do a hat for Quad State. First year it was in response to a troll on Anvilfire who called me an "Anvilhead" So... 70# anvil on the hat. Perfect scale from a 70# er I have in foam and nicely finished in wrought black and rust. Got a few looks:) The next year it was a "Gear Head". But alas, I forgot to duck going thru a door and I "stripped my gears" The details on the little hammer. About 60BPM, and the head is about 20 grams I think. I carried a little box of straight pins and a butane lighter as the forge and stock:) Only Steve Parker was tall enough to forge on it with me stopping pretty far:) This year I am thinking of doing "American industrial forge shop"

I started out dragging all the forge stuff from the wood shop out under a tree for some shade. It was a persimmon tree so... Persimmon Tree Forge.

Rambo, Boilers and their feedwater systems are a bit complicated. One wants to never waste any of the heat invested in heating the water to make steam, and none of the precious condensate that is usually pure water. In a lubricated steam hammer the rather large amount of oil entrained in the steam ends up in the condensate, and is hard to clean enough to use as feedwater. Any oil at all and you start to get foaming in the boiler, which is not good. I mentioned the silencer previously, and its main goal was to silence the roar of the exhaust steam as it reached the atmosphere. It did have a recovery drain, but the recovered condensate would be quite oily. I do not think this steam was reused at the drop hammer shop I worked at in recollection.The CI Agent may work, but only testing will tell. There will be heat still in the condensate, and it can and should be used to preheat feed water. Condensate return systems often used on heating systems return pure water to the condensate return tank. This tank will be vented, and even if the condensate is pure liquid there will usually be flashing to steam as the slight pressure in the condensate return line is lost as the condensate enters the tank. This water is pure gold. deaireated, hot to almost boiling and no impurities. Makes excellent feedwater. One must have the tank elevated by at least a meter or so above the feedwater pump suction ports to prevent the water again flashing to steam in the small suction negative head. If the steam flashes in the pump it will cavitate, and quickly wreck the pump. Cavatation will often make a gravel crushing or nest of bees buzz. Try searching the net for a copy of the Boiler operators manual by the ASME. It will have a great deal of info.

I had a momma cat to have a litter in my coal bin this year as well. They got big enough and I moved them and low and behold what I had thought were black cats were actually grey striped:)

Current shop Our work is limited only by your imagination. When I ran a R&D lab, we had a shop to do proto's and one offs. the mottos was Speed costs money, how fast do you want to go?"

Life is too short to spend any of it dead, injuried or in jail, and any combination of the three really sucks. Ptree AKA Jeff Reinhardt "Cheap Tools is poor economy" James Donald Reinhardt 1924-1986 "Read, think read again and think again, most of whats written needs lots of thought" Hazel Fitzgerald Reinhardt 1886-1986 "Son, don't never hit a lady! But any woman who hits you first is fair game" Vivien Hoskins Reinhardt 1926- Girls, Never slap a man 'cause you don't like what he said, but if he touches you, don't slap, make it really hurt, then run fast" Vivien Hoskins Reinhardt 1926- "One test is worth a thousand expert opinions" Reile Test Machine Co.

Rambo, I do not know the rules for emmisions for India. I feel certain that if you search for a supplier of steam specialities such as whistles, trap and valves you will find a silencer. Don't forget that the recovered water will be too oily for use as feedwater for the boiler.

My blacksmith's truck is a 1972 Chevy Camper Special, C-20 Custom DeLuxe with 89K original miles. The Camper Special means it is really a 1 ton in sheep's clothing. 1 ton axle and leaf springs on a '72 mean C-30 in most cases:) I have pulled a 7000# trailer load with little trouble. It also had a forged dragon with spread wings and a BarBie doll riding the on the shoulders as a hood ornament.

My blacksmith's truck is a 1972 Chevy Camper Special, C-20 Custom DeLuxe with 89K original miles. The Camper Special means it is really a 1 ton in sheep's clothing. 1 ton axle and leaf springs on a '72 mean C-30 in most cases:) I have pulled a 7000# trailer load with little trouble. It also had a forged dragon with spread wings and a BarBie doll riding the on the shoulders as a hood ornament.

Rambo, I do not know the Laws of India. If your Engineering Dept can advise what the standard for amount of oil allowed in the water to be legally discharged, and how it is to be discharged IE sewer, or into a river perhaps I can offer a little help. I have been doing this sort of thing for a while:)

Rambo, at the hammer shop I worked at the exhaust steam with the oil and water went to a Silencer exhaust. The steam went up a pipe and the silencer was at the exit end. It was a a bowl shaped device that caused the staem to expand to atmospheric pressure in the bowl, which helped cut down the noise. The oil and water droplets fell out as the velocity dropped as the steam expanded and there was a drain to capture. Most of the water would however flash to steam as the pressure dropped leaving much less water. Skimmers will pull MOST of the oil out but NOT all. If you have a permits sewer and can not send out oil, the skimmer won't do the job. There is a new product out that polymerizes the oil into a solid and leaves sheen free water. Most storm permits and sewers call out no sheen for discharge. Some sewer permits will allow as much as 100 Mg/Liter. Not knowing your location I can not give exact requirements. I do Environmental for my company and have been in this trade for a while. The polymer product is called C.I. Agent. (Cheap Insurance). They are on the web and I know that the main office is in Louisville KY. USA

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