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Not without knowing the maker and asking them. Frosty The Lucky.

Yes YES it's STORY TIME! Illustrated story time! Happy happy joy joy! In anticipation, Frosty The Lucky.

Uh, you DON'T mean "Ring" him like a tree do you? Pressure treated, ground contact wood isn't hard to come by. You MIGHT get what you need from a landscaper as a drop but don't count on it. Wood is good but I'll stick to my steel stand. Frosty The Lucky.

I just looked back at the OP and wonder if he realizes what we're doing here. Is this site anything but a place for the free exchange of information? Nothing in the history of humanity has done more to pass information to the following generations than the internet. I do have to say though, maybe the net's most beneficial lessons are in how to winnow the chaff from the kernels. Frosty The Lucky.

I don't think you know enough to know what you want. No that's not a shot, we've all been there nobody is born knowing this stuff. You first have to decide what you want THEN research it. And NO just asking here is NOT research. You might have to go to the library and read PAPER BOOKS!! Oh okay, THAT was a shot but a friendly one. Once you've researched the subject enough to have an idea what you want to do and have a handle on what the methods are and how they work it's time to experiment. Heck by then you'd be able to ask good questions and someone here could give you solid answers. We want to help but we can't more than we already have. Frosty The Lucky.

My oil quench tank is a 15 gl. grease barrel with a lid in a cut down 55gl. drum with a lid. I only have about 6gl. of used fryer oil in the barrel, having that much barrel before the oil makes flare ups minimal burning oil that deep in a steel well just can't draft well enough to burn well. Water I keep in a garage sale soup pot close but not really easy to get to. I only use water to keep things cool enough to handle or isolate heat. I don't quench steel unless I WANT to harden it. I'd like to find a long narrow rubber watering tub for a slack tub. Long water makes it a LOT easier to cool odd shaped things or weird positions, say you want to tweak a bend a 4' long bar but leave the center as is. It's just easier to lay a piece flat and lower it into the water than try dipping it straight. Heck maybe you want to cool 3' but your bucket is only 1' deep. Of course dippers and watering cans are fair, heck they're essential. Frosty The Lucky.

Not to be a jargon cop but it really helps calling parts by the correct name when looking for them. What you're calling a propeller or prop is an "impeller" Occasionally called a "fan." You don't want to have to try describing things at a counter or on the phone where your hand gestures don't do any good do you? Frosty The Lucky.

I just offer them the hammer. It's MUCH more satisfying to see their jaws clamp shut while they turn their back and walk away in public self inflicted humiliation. I don't have to say mean things, I don't say ANYTHING. It makes the audience like me better and it saves me $0.25. There's nothing a blowhard hates more than the challenge to prove it. Frosty The Lucky.

FC: How a burner works is how it works. The volume it will bring to the desired temperature depends on volume and shape of the chamber. You need to do a little math buddy here's your numbers. One well tuned 3/4" T burner will bring 300-350 cu/in to welding temperature. There is a wider variation depending on a number of factors mostly elevation, barometric pressure and how you hold your tongue. None of which I can offer an opinion on from here. Frosty The Lucky.

Are you saying the female metal artists in Cadillac, Mi. look like that Jim? Frosty The Lucky.

Not ALWAYS, just when I think about it. Thanks for the reminder . . . Pal. Frosty The Lucky.

The maker was a used car salesman who has a truly gullible and ignorant interviewer. Everything he says is either puffery or he's delusional, possibly psychotic. He's probably just letting fly at the interviewer, right now China is in a "wild west" phase of advancing itself and claiming things like divine or extra terrestrial secret instruction is no surprise. Used car salesman hindered by no rules. Remember he made a fortune at a used car dealership. A FORTUNE! Oooooh. Frosty The Lucky.

Oh GEE, THANKS Aus. A simple yes would've done fine now I'm going too join Spanky less the screaming. Deb will be along immediately if she sees this pic. 6 eyes and hairy mandibles? Shudder. So much for naps in the living room, the cats keep the bugs under control in the bedroom. Damascus didn't earn the moniker Bug's Bane for nothing and the newest, semi-tamed ferral, Qiviut is just as determined to kill bugs. Frosty The Lucky.

Chase the threads in the holes and replace the insert. It's a basic shop skill, you should have no problem finding a how to online. Frosty The Lucky.

Uh huh, I remember being young and thinking I could wish for things or mention things like that and the fates wouldn't feed me a dose for the affront. Let me pass along one of the true natural laws of the universes on the chance you haven't heard it. The Non-reciprocating Law " Mention something bad and it will happen immediately. Mention something good and it won't happen." I've seen it on the list of corollaries to "Murphy's Law" but it's actually the other way around, Murphy just didn't know or didn't believe in the Non-reciprocating law. Frosty The Lucky.

No telling but probably not. Pictures really help. Frosty The Lucky.

Good score. Have you bought me a lottery ticket yet? Frosty The Lucky.

And that's the bare truth. I'd say, 'and no butts about it,' but . . . but. I wonder how long he'd last cutting a guardrail? Frosty The Lucky.

Now someone GIVES you a gas forge?! Holey mackerel buy a lottery ticket! By all means take pics, especially if it needs some tuning. Better yet, ask the fellow who used it how to work it. We still want to see pics, we LOVE pics. I'm "almost" always happy to help. Even if I have to make stuff up. Frosty The Lucky.

Wow, I've been away from this thread for a bit. I don't really put flares on my personal burners, not really. The 4 burner shop forge isn't a clam shell, it's a variable volume model, the jack lifts the lid so I can arrange the partition fire bricks to whatever shape or size I need. Those burners have thread protectors on the nozzle end as sacrificial ends to insert in the refractory liner. I dipped one in kaolin clay slip I had mixed up some years back, the inside threads hold the kaolin nicely and they haven't burned out in probably 18 years now. The new forge with the burners tilted back at 45* and attached with a floor flange is a current experiment. the initial aim is to get the air intakes as far from the door as possible to avoid it inhaling it's own exhaust. I've been playing around with casting a FAN shaped flare with the castable refractory but am still tinkering with getting them to work. I changed too many things at once to make for easy trouble shooting. Frosty The Lucky.

Like Scrat, the ferret or whatever in the "Ice Age" animated movies? Yeah, something like that would be cool and popular. Frosty The Lucky.

Ditto. I MUCH prefer this alternative. drill one hole o slip the blade into and off you go, no screaming LOUD noise, no sparks, no hot grinder dust raining down your collar. Oh WAIT, where's the fun in missing out on all that adventure!? Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard Jesse, glad to have you. Don't wait till you find a "real" anvil, the London pattern that is most commonly associated with being a "real" anvil is historically a real recent development and hardly universal. Almost anything hard and heavy enough will serve fine as an anvil, heck if you're beating hot steel on it it's an anvil. Period. Frosty The Lucky.

Lay that plate on the floor and use it for upsetting. Then make your anvil stand from 2" angle iron a flange up section fitted to the anvil's foot and 3 legs. There is absolutely no good reason to make such a heavy anvil stand it doesn't improve performance. Below is a pic of my anvil stand. The hammer and tong racks wedge between the stand and anvil to wedge it solidly in place, it works a treat. You could weld mine up single pass with your machine. Frosty The Lucky.

I agree I make out "Patent" in the side shot and that's a trademark part of Peter Wright ID stamping. I certainly can e wrong though. The most dressing up I'd do to that old beauty is maybe wire brushing and oiling or waxing the sides bottom etc. Then take a hammer and hot steel to her face and she'll shine like the lady she is. She shows some wear and tear but nothing to worry about and certainly nothing to "fix". The bolt ears welded to the feet are nothing. I'd leave them and use them or pretend they're not there unless they actually get in the way. then a cold chisel and hammer will take care of them. Good score, heck excellent score. Frosty The Lucky.