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Utility companies are all so unreasonable that way!! Frosty The Lucky.

Forbidden again! arghhhh!!!! I've been run around by the only contact with IPS I have long enough. This time I copied and pasted the "Forbidden" reply and asked for an explanation. I expect to be blocked soon now. Frosty The Lucky.

Well, okay I suppose your assistant's family deserves to eat now and then. You have all the other stuff just sitting there though. However if you're going to tally the electricity to drill some bolt holes . . . Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard Bob, glad to have you. If you pout your general location in the header and you might be surprised how many of the IFI gang live within visiting distance. Hook up with the local blacksmithing organization and it'll really flatten the learning curve for you. An hour with an experienced smith will show you more than days of teaching yourself. What kind of charcoal? Did you break it up? How deep was it piled? And no you don't need to cran the blower hard enough to have a plume of flame shooting out of the pile. Charcoal doesn't need a lot of air but the fire needs to be deep enough to consume all the oxygen or it will scale your work to nothing. Fire management isn't the easy part f blacksmithing but it's probably the single most important and it takes practice. Getting with someone experienced will answer your questions by showing you. Frosty The Lucky.

He got the polarity reversed. You can mask and etch some pretty intricate patterns with negative to the work and using the positive on a brush or other various . . . stingers? Basically it's reverse electro polishing. Nifty and fun. Frosty The Lucky.

That particular torch is a weed burner and will put too much oxygen in the forge so your work will scale up quickly and not get hot enough. This would be a bad choice. I'm not finding what I'm thinking of and I just spent a good hour looking at pics online. About the closest I've seen was the Bernzomatic jumbo propane torch but I just not seeing what I was thinking of. I've been making the things for years and not shopping to buy. I'm probably the wrong guy to be suggesting what to buy. I can spot bad ones but I don't know where the pro models are. Frosty The Lucky.

I'm looking forward to seeing your finished Kukri J. Frosty The Lucky.

My rule of knife fighting got Forbidden! <grrrr> My first rule of knife fights is be the better chef. Frosty The Lucky.

20k worth of work? I thought it was salvages stock on your own place. That makes it free doesn't it? Frosty The Lucky.

Or go with a gun burner, you can force more gas and air in a small volume so it's hotter. You need a blower/gun to make a ribbon burner work. Or so I've heard. Frosty The Lucky.

Do you have a dedicated shop? If so you might want to look into finding a source of smithing coal and a pot bellied stove. Use the smithing coal in the forge and hard coal in the pot belly come winter. On the other hand I can get stubborn about making a thing do what I want it to so I understand. We'll help how we can, we're all like that to a degree. Well, maybe more than A degree! Frosty The Lucky.

You need a proper blower, a blow drier just isn't going to do it. Start hitting yard, garage, etc. sales and look for a 12v inflator for rafts, air mattresses, etc. They will more than make too much air for your set up, then it's easy to put a gate on the intake so you can adjust it. You can adjust it for a neutral burn with the blow drier by turning the propane psi down but the forge temperature is a matter of putting enough BTUs in a contained area fast enough and a blow drier just doesn't make enough air. Ditto Thomas, get hooked up with the local blacksmith's organization, you'll be up and smooshing HOT steel in no time. It might not hurt to look into a new liner too, modern refractories can be much more efficient and flux resistant than just a few years ago let alone a few decades. Do you know the make & mod of that forge? Frosty The Lucky.

Don't apologize, not a lot of guys know how to control lighting photographing shiny stuff and the First wasn't bad. So I was a photography geek in years past. This pic is much better, I really like vivid contrast in patterns and yours is very nice. Thanks for the second look see. Frosty The Lucky.

Well there you go, I've widened your horizon to what 1966? Even as incredibly popular as it was during the first airings if a person were to wear a Star Trek costume any time but Halloween or perhaps a costume party, Star Trek fans would laugh at you. The closest to a Star Trek costume I've ever worn was a blue T shirt and a couple band aid points on my ears. I made a much better Charlie Brown except for the long hair. Well, I had to check and my memory wasn't as bad as I was afraid! I only missed by Mr. Spock not being 1st. officer. Not bad for 50 years and a Great White . . . birch attack eh? You know how you can tell Gene Roddenberry didn't have it quite right? You never saw Kirk interrupted with a text message while using his communicator. Of COURSE I have a Flip Phone! Silly thing to even wonder. Frosty The Lucky.

Johnny: I had a more thorough reply Forbidden yesterday and forgot to save it first. <sigh> Search under gas forges, it'll turn up, I didn't post it as plans or instructions just a concept sketch for an old style. Yesterday I suggested using ceramic blanket refractory to line your forge. Place the burner in the center aimed at an angle rather than directly at the far side. Find a professional plumber's torch like you'd see working on an industrial site, etc. You can buy a proper propane regulator off the shelf in Alaska for around $25.00 at the Propane distribution show room. Amerigas by name in Wasilla Ak. I've been working on a newer T burner and MUCH easier construction method but haven't gotten it tweaked nor drawn up. Soon though. Teenylittlemetalguy has making 1/2" T burners honed to a fine science, maybe he has some pics or drawings. I suppose if you wanted to waste a huge amount of time you could sift through my posts, I've described making the current style a few times. I'd just do it again but I'm a TBI survivor and have enough trouble staying on one track so if I start describing how to make the old version I'll get lost and mix it up with the newer one. I know that sounds evasive but it's how my brain works now. On the other hand if you get stuck on something I can trouble shoot without confusing myself. Frosty The Lucky.

What do you have in it for a refractory liner? What is the chamber volume and what size Side arm is it? Frosty The Lucky.

What they said. Keep it simple and non-gimmicky, a pro doesn't need gimmicks. While you're playing with double Fs consider two font sizes and arranging them creatively. If done correctly you might be able to suggest a helm in a small enough touch mark. For an off the top thought. A slanted F resembles the visor and eye slit, so how about another F that starts at the bottom of the eye slit and extends above to represent a pennon or crest? It's obviously a double F, however looked at a certain way suggests a helm. If you point the out resemblance the viewer's mind will fill in the bits to make it look like a helm. Just a thought though, the more I reread my idea the less I like it. Nothing new there. Frosty The Lucky.

I saw every episode first season watched the pilot and never missed an episode. Have you seen the Star Trek pilot? Pike was captain of Enterprise and Spock was 1st. officer, not science officer. Scenes were worked into a later episode with Pike in a powered chair. I don't recall the title. Spock's character as sans emotions was over acted to the hilt and toned down much better after the pilot was bought. You better bet we watched Trek, it was the most advanced Sci fi on 1960's TV with lots of social commentary. Alan Dean Foster was a regular writer as were a number of other Sci Fi authors, at one time they even consulted R.A. Heinlein. I think perhaps about "Stranger in a Strange Land." It was a contemporary novel though nobody I knew got Heinlein's tongue in cheek message. Uh, yeah though I wouldn't call myself any more fan than the average kid of the 60's. Frosty The Lucky.

Nice score Sparks. Any modern grease is good, Re Charles. No need for fancy grease, it'd probably be happy with lard. I'm not recommending lard but it'd work fine though you might have the neighborhood dogs hanging around. Of course you could tell some great tall tales about, the dog packs that kept your leg vise licked clean. Frosty The Lucky.

Are you using Mike Porter's burner design? I believe type 4 was his latest. Frosty The Lucky.

A wet tea bag makes a good compress for burns though Aloe Vera works better, I keep a squeeze bottle close when playing with hot stuff. You ought to try cleaning ice plant out of wheel wells. While my vehicles have never had the experience of the ice plant arrester system I've helped a friend who ditch dived at 70mph. Talk about packed tight, he was digging the stuff out for 3 days. Ice plant is REALLY good stuff to fill medians with, minimizes head ons at freeway speed. Frosty The Lucky.

That'll work fine Jim. You'll find you have better control if you put a regulator on but it's not necessary. Propane and air don't mix as well as NG and air. You'll get a more even flame if it has longer to mix. Putting the T with the gas injector between the air supply hose and the iron so the air fuel has to go around the 90 will really help mixing. The best propane gun burner I know of injects the propane into the blower's impeller and provides a very nice complete burn. I can't recommend you inject the propane in the hose or blower because I don't think it's propane rated. In fact I highly discommend injecting propane in front of the steel pipe. It's better safe than sorry when messing with potentially explosive stuff. On that thought it occurred to me we don't know where your forge is. I can see the roll up doors in the picture but you said you're moving yes? You MUST have good ventilation a gas forge consume a LOT of oxy and produces lots of carbon monoxide CO. Excellent ventilation is okay but not too much. I don't do much forging in winter as I don't like opening the shop to the cold and like breathing CO even less. Frosty The Lucky.

Oh there are a lot more than 140 Characters subscribed to Iforge Guns! I don't have anything to add to Gun's advice. And yes please put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many of the IFI gang live within visiting distance. Well, okay I do have a couple things to add. If the word "antique" is spoken don't let it be YOU! It ain't an antique, it's just old and old isn't worth extra anything to a working tool. I'd take a close look at the mark between the hardy hole and the center of the face. It might be a trick of the light but it might be a torch gouge too. If it's a torch gouge the anvil's value is half if you're generous. The edges look fine, even the chips aren't going to hurt it as a tool. Once you've used it a year or two is the time to think about dressing the edges. Oh shoot, I have to go to dinner now. It's Deb and my 19th. anniversary. I'd like to talk more but. . . Frosty The Lucky.

There's another concern, propane is a much more chemically reactive. Your regulators, valves, hoses, etc. must be propane rated or they'll degrade eventually. By eventually that's MUCH faster than they would under normal use. A gun/blown burner can use most any flammable gas if you adjust the fuel air ratio. Depending on the burner type it may be as simple as changing the jets or a more thorough conversion. In some case home builds usually, simply changing the gas pressure will do it. I'm not making predictions for your burner but in general conversion isn't difficult. Just change out anything that contains rubber for safety's sake. Locally a 0-30psi propane regulator runs $25.00 +tax a gauge runs in the $10 - $15 range, depending on where you look. The real wallet bite is the hose. Frosty The Lucky.

Don't blame me Charles, darned near everything has cut me before, I've gotten some dang painful cuts from PAPER and goodness pick up a can lid just a little bit wrong!! "Constant exposure results in some degree of contamination." Mr. Spock. Frosty The Lucky.