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I'm afraid grinding is would kill it as a tool. She will however make a good stake plate to hold bottom tools. You can make a nice clean face with a shank to fit the hardy hole. She'll hold your other bottom tools too, fullers, swages, hardies, bending forks, etc. However unless you want serious texture her face is really rough. "repairing" it would involve serious cleaning, pre heating welding with the proper rod and a LOT of grinding. That might make for a nice face but would kill it's antique value. I'd keep her but keep looking. Frosty The Lucky.

You can unplate with a dilute sulfuric acid bath and electrolysis. negative ground the wrench and positive ground a piece of stainless or something you want a hodge podge plating job on. Of course you end up with the haz mat disposal issue. Frosty The Lucky.

That looks about like a moose hit, they vary depending on a number of factors, mostly how you hit them rather than how fast but still bad, Bad, BAD. A gal hit a moose yesterday afternoon but only suffered minor injuries, bruises and glass scratches the moose went to the needy. Some of the worst strikes are carom shots like the one you posted. The critter gets hit by one vehicle and thrown into another sometimes just wrong so it ends up going through the windshield. Frosty The Lucky. First try Forbidden. Trying edit if this posts. Now it deleted my reply to Gote and merged posts. I'm REALLY disliking the platform.

I get a little gun shy about how I come across sometimes and find myself relying on my friends here to let me know if I cross the line. I really need to stop emphasizing words, especially with caps. Lighting is one of the toughest things to learn when learning photography so it's really common to see things back lit. Look how nice Stormcrow's recent knife photo is compared to the earlier ones. While the new background is better, the big improvement is diffuse lighting. A pro photographer is a good expenditure if you're in business. Of course taking a college extension course in photography is usually more than enough and they're fun, especially if you're shooting nudes in class. Frosty The Lucky.

I knew you'd understand. . . Where can you get an adze that beautiful for $20 Jimmy? Frosty The Lucky.

The price is a little steep even for a cast Swedish steel anvil but not out of the question, especially for the condition. I'm a HUGE fan of Soderfors anvils and a Kohlswa is right up there. It's an excellent size to go portable tool. Unless one has been through a fire you don't see Swedish cast steel anvils with sway, they're hardened steel all the way through. Chipped edges are common though so if you pick that little princes up be careful not to hit it on the edges with the hammer. Not hard at least. I like it and would bargain hard. Frosty The Lucky.

True Charles but this one is a "something to hang on the shop wall, keeper." Frosty The Lucky.

You can stabilize the stack by wiring or hose clamping a piece or two of rod to it. Run it from a couple C clamps on the forge pan and up the stack. Not pretty but works. And no it doesn't need to be heavy material, here I'd use some 3/4" angle iron a picked up a couple years ago and that'd be heavier than necessary. Frosty The Lucky.

I'll make a snack before I start reading. I'm looking forward to it. Frosty The Lucky.

I was only trying to point out a video technique I think folk would find helpful. Now I'll have to take a closer look at the Judges on Forged in Fire. Frosty The Lucky.

Oh man, you ain't going to outrun a moose unless you have a bolt hole close, a tree is a good choice. It doesn't have to have limbs within reach with a moose on your heels you can jump an amazing distance. Day before yesterday I saw a cow with fresh calves from a couple hundred feet fortunately. Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard, glad to have you. If you scroll almost to the bottom of the Iforge front page you'll come to the section linking to regional organizations hook up with one close. You'll learn the craft far faster and better around experienced smiths and you'll connect to tools, equipment supplies and BBQs. Now to resolve myself to tonight's beating. Frosty The Lucky.

ATF and a thinner like turps makes an excellent penetrant and let it soak. Something else an old timer told me back when I wasn't one. If you know what caused it to stick that's the stuff that will unstick it. I was surprised when he dropped a bolt with a rusted on nut in a bucket of water over night and it freed right up next morning. You don't want to try electrolysis on it till you can get it apart or it'll weld the pieces together. Long soak and gentle persuasion is probably the best bet. And there's no telling what she's really like till you get it apart. Frosty The Lucky.

Your question wasn't "dumb" I just responded in kind to your reply. No need to be a stranger, If I don't tick you off or or vise versa we aren't interacting enough. I'm a TBI survivor and don't have the filters I used to so my responses can be more . . . Whatever than necessary. Have whatever kind of day you wish. Frosty The Lucky.

By larding I'm referring to the need to add fat to some game meats or they're too dry. You'd use a "larding needle" on a roast but wrapping or frying bacon is popular. I was asking in my round about way if Roo is lean or very lean meat. Most deer is almost fat free meat and a person can starve to death with a belly full of deer meat. Frosty The Lucky.

Okay you have me pondering, the exploration drills I used to run, repair and modify are more hydraulic than mechanical so pondering hydraulics is pretty ingrained. Have you looked into the type gear pumps found on trucks and such rigs? Our drill pumps bypassed at 2,500psi but produced enough volume RESTRICTED to run the draw works up at a good 18"/sec+. And pressing down they'd lift the back of the drill off the ground and hardly twitch the gauge. There were times pulling casing we'd have every lift cylinder available pulling, draw works, leveling jacks and the casing jack. The pump never starved the system. Heck due to the conditions occasionally a bit of crud would get past the filters and block a port. On one memorable occasion the bypass stuck open and when the driller bottomed a cylinder on the slide base it blew a 10,000psi hose but only AFTER he stalled the 453 Detroit diesel running it TWICE! I realize you actually KNOW the application you're talking about but nothing you've talked about is hard to get with hydraulics. Speed and tonnage is volume and pressure. Enough volume and ram surface=tonnage at speed. Why a 2 stage pump? Can you increase the pressure to the cylinders with a pressure actuated bypass? Spin a high pressure pump faster and it makes more volume. Push a high volume pump harder and it makes more pressure. The general safety rule of thumb is spin the pressure pump faster, they can take more abuse. An adjustable bypass allows high volume till it hits resistance then it starts closing increasing pressure till the MASTER/PRIMARY bypass opens or something stalls or blows. Just wondering, Frosty The Lucky.

I made a set for my 50 LG. from 4140 and they do nicely even against the test subject of a cold grade 5 bolt. I quenched them is warm fryer oil (canola) and heat treated to 400f for 3 hours in my shop toaster oven. I made it from a drop from loader pin stock I got from a machine shop. I cut and ground matching square blanks and welded them to bolt plates. It wasn't hard just time consuming, Dad was a machinist and I grew up around the stuff it wasn't even very finicky. Where I blew it was not recognizing a bolt coming loose while in use and it broke in the bottom dove tail. What a PITA trying to remove a work hardened grade 8 bolt that had been snapped and peined in place with a power hammer. <sigh> As a result my interchangeable dies have 1/2" holes and bolts so they only fit MY LG and not the rest of the gang's. One of these days I might make another set of dovetails or weld these up, drill and tap for 3/8" bolts like everybody else's but I'm kind of lazy. Anyway, heat treated 4140 works a treat in my hammer. Frosty The Lucky.

While marrying a striker is a viable option a simple Oliver type treadle hammer doesn't eat, doesn't want you to take out the garbage but isn't comfy to snuggle at night. I think I'd just make a simple Oliver type hammer that pivots out of the way when I don't need it. Frosty The Lucky.

What's shipping from Romania to Alaska? Air freight over the pole would probably actually be pretty reasonable, especially if you consider smithing tool prices in Alaska. Just wondering, Frosty The Lucky.

You asked about heat treating, I referred you to the sections about heat treating. It's up to YOU to adjust to suit your needs. Frosty The Lucky.

Did you know Reed Oswalt? He's another long time inhabitant of the Rock and does a bit of smithin. I'd like to meet him face to face and Deb hasn't been to the Rock so maybe. I've been there on jobs but that was years ago. I'd like to meet Reed and shake his hand some day and Deb hasn't been out thataway so who knows. Been searingly HOT here too, hit . . . 73f yesterday! 90s on the Peninsula is WAY too hot for the PAC NW. Frosty The Lucky.

Nice tutorial and example about using White out as a welding resist. The other really good example for the guys wanting to make videos is his lighting. He made the common beginner's mistake of holding the subject up where HE could see it, not the camera. He kept back lighting the subject with the florescents or worse the open shop door. For a good rule of thumb If you're looking at the camera lens you want to be looking at the lights too. If the lights are behind you all the camera will see is a silhouette. Yeah, yeah I was a photographer in a past life. Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard J, glad to have you. Well join the club probably the largest demographic of blacksmiths until the internet started recruiting future addicts was the wood guy who wanted THAT special thing but didn't want to spend THAT much on one. Chisels, knives and plane blades are probably the most common "I can make THAT" projects. Once you've experienced the soul deep satisfaction of beating the heck out of a defenseless piece of HOT tool steel you're hooked, no turning back. Enjoy the addiction I do. Frosty The Lucky.

Uh. . . Look in the knife making sections under heat treatment? There are many hundreds if not thousands of pages of info on heat treating. Frosty The Lucky.

Have enough tongs? Does the wife have a nice pot rack? Shelf brackets? Gate or shed hinges? How many KINDS of leaves have you made? Flowers? Yard hardware, trellises, flower trees, Tiki torch holders, beer bottle/glass holders? Garden tools? Just look around you, if it's made of steel try making one. Frosty The Lucky.