Frosty

You're trying to tempt me into finally cleaning and organizing the basement aren't you? It IS tempting, I'd love to get some of my texts dug out and organized. Frosty The Lucky.

When you say one set of axles "can rotate," do you mean turn as in left or right so you can steer the cart? Like this? You can see the pivot the front wheel assembly turns on in the picture. By turn I mean the front wheel assembly itself, not the individual wheels. Frosty The Lucky.

I wish I had something like this a long time ago! I didn't open the link to check the price but I'd have to but into the unlimited version. I don't know if I have the energy to sort through the hundreds of boxes of books in the basement and then organize them so I could locate them. Still it'd sure be nice to know just what I had down there and on the book shelves. Thanks for the link John! Frosty The Lucky.

I have to agree with Larry, your sculpture conveys a sense of sorrow and misery in an attractive way. The rough welds fits the feelings well. I really like it Pedro, I think making the welds pretty would diminish the effect. That's just my opinion, it's your piece you should make it how you like. Frosty The Lucky.

Starting with slices of pipe is so MUCH better than turning the wheel rims manually. Is the cart only for rolling in a straight line or do you have plans for a way to let it turn? Frosty The Lucky.

You got it Billy, that sort of situation is probably what they're used for most often, another that comes to mind is reproducing antique molding. You use instruments good to a hundred thousandths! Thank you for reminding me I'm more than 50 years out of the biz! Frosty The Lucky.

Which video? The one I watched made perfect sense but there are a number out there. Frosty The Lucky.

When we start snow birding in the RV I'm sure we'll both keep our online friends up on where we're going. I'll be checking IFI when we're near wifi and I'll be my usual talky self so suppose everybody on the planet will know about where we are headed. All we'd need is room to park a small RV and we're golden. Frosty The Lucky.

Hobbieism, hobbielity, dishobbility? . . . Uh . . . Hobbangley, Hobbangler? One of the how to videos shows it being used on H beam and that just works the one 90 angle so I imagine using it on angle iron would be the same. Better exercise a LITTLE control, I'm probably playing HOB with the mods. Frosty The Lucky.

That would be handy alright, bummer I don't work with pipe more I'd have to get one. Frosty The Lucky.

Oh MAN, I'm a hobbiest, should I be sorry too? Thanks for the video, I remember the things now but that was in high school. All we did in the welding school was run bead and study the book and that was to earn my pipe and structural cert! Frosty The Lucky.

ANOTHER place for the bucket list! I want to see Sturbridge too, guess we'll be close enough to see both and whatever's in between. Frosty The Lucky.

Dad had one clamped to his drafting board, like a modern drafting arm. He kept it locked so I wouldn't mess with it WHILE I was practicing my drafting. He insisted I knew how to draw and read prints. Another home run Dad! Frosty The Lucky.

Okay, I'm unfamiliar with the contour marker in the top right of the gold pans but I found pics online. Don't have one of those, how's it work? I would've had to jack the mobile home at least 5' off the ground to slip the small lathe under it and lay the mill on it's side. Uh, I got Dad's plan turned around, he didn't want me to become a metal spinner? Or it WAS his plan and I swum upstream? Frosty The Lucky.

Yes, that's the one I was referring to, mine is about 2x as wide and cost a bunch new, I got mine at a shop liquidation sale along with a wraparound and more. I got to shooting the breeze with the old fellow who was holding a retirement sale. Neither of his kids wanted to get into the business so he was selling it off and going to Europe with the missus. We got to talking and he threw in a bunch of other things gratis I could've bought a lathe or mill for scrap if I hadn't lived in a mobile home in S. Mountain View. He was royally ticked at his sons. I understand their point of view, I certainly didn't want to become a metal spinner after spending the 1st. 17 years of my life working in a spinning shop. Frosty The Lucky.

An admirable trait you are well known for. Frosty The Lucky.

Starretts are good, I've been using Starrett instrumentation since Dad's shop was in the garage and was the only Jr. Hi kid with his own mic in metal shop 101. Unfortunately that gave the instructor the impression I actually knew how to USE a machine shop. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky.

Looks like it could be. Perhaps they got tired of big piles of slag, ash, etc. at the bloomery and hauled it off a ways to dump. It might have fallen off the wagon too. You can use a compass to see if it effects the needle. It might make an attractive fireplace or masonry forge, I like shiny black. Frosty The Lucky.

Calipers and dividers are really handy. I have one small and one large compass fitted with sharpened tig tungstens for marking steel without dyechem or paint. Maybe one of these days I'll get a chance to hit a large conference and ogle the goods. It's not like Deb would let me put much extra in her RV but a boy can dream. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky.

I feel for you. I don't recall who said it, maybe Hal Clemens or Wiley Post or? To paraphrase, "Every man should own a dog so he knows what it's like to be a god. He should also own a cat to know he isn't." Frosty The Lucky.

The one with all the sliding pins that lets you copy a contour by pressing it onto it. Mine is IIRC 4" maybe more. Dandy handy tools. Nothing wrong with showing the gang a rich booty of calipers, I use them frequently enough to appreciate the different sizes in my tool box. Frosty The Lucky.

Not in the day! Happily you and I are too old for the job. I'm a real fan of Wessex archeology, they have a LOT of very interesting pages and topics. One I've been following lately is Ancientcraft UK by Dr. James Dilley. Among many subjects he discusses he's a professional flint knapper and an excellent teacher. He's easier to learn the craft from than many other knappers with videos up. Sorry for the side track. Thanks for the link Scott, I LOVE this kind of stuff. Frosty The Lucky.

I love it when you let your Geologist self come out and play George. Having to collect my own coal is the main reason I burn propane. I am looking at the Talkeetna mountains out the living room window a range of coal seams 200 miles+/- wide 400 long and -2,000 to+ 4,000 elevation on average. It's about a 45 minute drive to decommissioned strip mines but remembering which side of which ditch is metallurgical coal and which is one of several other kinds of heating coal left me years ago. I can't even find my old collecting ditch. The coal being mined near Healy is virtually all going to China and only a very limited supply of so-so stove coal is being sold by the sack here. It gripes me to have world class smithing coal visible that I can't access without mounting an expedition to collect enough to be worth it which unfortunately violates the agreement by which private citizens can collect coal for personal use. <sigh> Nice if modest score Scott. I love my curve-o-mark even though I don't need it very often. When I do though! I don't know what it is about calipers but I see them in pawn and second hand shops all the time by the bin full and when I go garage, yard, etc. saling they're everywhere. Frosty The Lucky.

Depends on the anthracite and you're ability to manage the fire. Charcoal is much cleaner in general and bituminous cokes more easily but isn't necessarily clean or lower clinker. The ONLY way you can tell if you have a load of anthracite you can use is to build a fire and learn how to manage THAT load. Coal that is half clinker weighs significantly more density wise because of the carbon goodness that was replaced with mineral dirt badness. The anthracite we were collecting at the old Jonesville mines burned more cleanly than the store bought "smithing" coal available at the time and. Frosty The Lucky.

Glad to see you didn't take the reusing everything to the level of kitty litter sand. Still looks good GTF and gun bluing won't care about hot pans on it. Frosty The Lucky.