Frosty

Looks like a nice place to tour. What is the device with the pneumatic(?) cylinder on the floor in front of the forge? It appears to be plumbed or wired to the hammer on the right. Thanks for sharing your visit. Frosty The Lucky.

My you fit right in here don't you? Frosty The Lucky.

I'm afraid that isn't something a couple thousandths of most anything can do. Case hardening is generally for abrasion resistance and or friction reduction. Any difference is compressive of rigidity it made would require pretty delicate instruments to detect and measure. I think it's a thought we've all had at one time or another. Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard Paul, glad to have you. To go along with Randy's suggestion to put your general location in the header I'll add. Please do not use TEXT SPEAK on the forum it has members in about 150 countries around the world most using translation programs so speaking simple basic English saves many of the 60,000 members bandwidth and time. Frosty The Lucky.

He did and also said the amount of steel cuttings was enough of a higher % than the bits of broken garnet, silicon carbide, etc. from the belt as to make little if any difference. We had a good discussion about it a while back. It's in the sections. . . somewhere. Frosty The Lucky.

Looks pretty good though if possible it's gooder to bring a mandrel to a sharper point if possible. If you have a belt grinder they're easy to clean up and sharpen. But as forged you done good! Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard Craftsdwarf, glad to have you. If you put your general location in the header you'll have a much better chance of meeting up with members living within visiting distance. I strongly suggest you spend more time reading some of the archived subjects before you start pointing out things you THINK are wrong with the site or deliberately misunderstanding them. You DON'T want to make "troll" your first impression do you? Not building a box so you don't have to think outside it, is about as straight forward as it gets. But because you are new and sound pretty young I'll explain. If you do not limit your thinking to things you know, you will not have trouble considering new ideas. Frosty The Lucky.

AAAmax: Please don't use the @ tag it messes with Iforgeiron's operating system and the mods have to repair what it does. Will you post more of what I said please, I don't know what I was talking about more than using a lever. I don't know why I was describing something specific. I was probably trying to illustrate the basics of figuring how much lever to use in a shop situation. The saw horse was just an example of an expedient fulcrum and where to put the lever so as it won't break the sawhorse or tip over. It was just an example. The basics of leverage is a straight force multiplier. Work side of the lever, fulcrum (pivot point) and input side. a 60cm work side and 180cm input side = a 3:1 lever. For 1kg on the input side the work side will lift 3kg. The travel distance is reversed. The input side moves 180cm for every 60cm the work side moves. A good way to experiment is with a ruler or meter stick and known weights. Frosty The Lucky.

Nope, more clueless than usual but this is an international forum so maybe a member out there will speak up. Frosty The Lucky.

Nickel eh? Search . . . read . . . read. . . read. Ah, Old Nick but not for any devilish properties, more for being a metallic joker. Cool, thanks for the vocabulary update. Frosty The Lucky.

I wonder what else we have in common? I was pleased to see at everybody wasn't barefoot. Frosty The Lucky.

1/3" isn't bad shrinkage over that length. Do NOT make the al much hotter, a LITTLE bit should do it. If you switch to molasses or other hardening sand binder you can preheat the mold SLIGHTLY too. A couple few burning charcoal briquettes along the length under it can make a good difference. Think 100f+/- a few preheat. Getting there. Frosty The Lucky.

Cool beans. Give it more time to cool than you think it needs! Frosty The Lucky.

Bending hot is normal enough in a Hossfeld, Case hardening only effects a couple thousandths of the surface and doesn't add to stiffness in any meaningful way. Maybe buy stronger steel or send it to a professional heat treater? I know it flies in the face of DIY but sometimes it's the best and most cost effective. Lola has seen the vise stand, I don't think she'll show more interest in something new or yummy. Frosty The Lucky.

It's also much easier to wrap 1" into a tube than 2". 2" wrinkles and requires work and extra quantities and thickness refractory to make a smooth interior so the flame flows smoothly. Frosty The Lucky.

I'm with you on that George. The forging was impressive as all git out but the machining was like a stroll down memory lane. I was never any good n a 4 jaw chuck, took me forever to center the work but Dad, Glenn or most any other machinist in his shop could in less than a minute. Dad's bog machine lathe was about the same age as the one in the video. All in all a good hour's watching, thanks for the link Arbalist. Frosty The Lucky.

Put a magnet in a plastic bag and pass it around your anvil, floor, yard, pickup bed, etc. when it won't pick up more turn the bag inside out over a bucket and put the magnet in another bag. When you stop getting filings, scale, pinch offs, etc. Go visit another blacksmith. Lather rinse repeat. When you have say 20lbs or so you might get a 4lb bloom. Frosty The Lucky.

You just put a big happy smile on my face Paul, that is excellent news! One follow up doc visit I remember clearly was getting my feeding tube removed. The doc and I chatted briefly while he got the bladder on the tube deflated and started trying to tug it out. He says in a calm relaxed voice, "You heal fast, it's healed in place, this is going to hurt . . . A LOT" and gives a hard jerk. I swear I could feel my stomach trying to follow the catheter out too! For a second I thought he'd lifted me off the exam table but of course I just jumped . . . about completely out the door! He put a band aid on the hole once he made sure it wasn't bleeding and said I was good to go, call if there are problems or questions, etc. etc. I complimented him for being the first medical professional who told me the truth. Boy that put a stop to his activities. "How so?" I asked. "you said it'd hurt a LOT and it did." . . . "WHAT?" he responded with a confused expression. "Nurses, doctors, etc. all tell you things like you might feel a pinch. A little discomfort, etc." Then inflict serious pain. You can't imagine how refreshing it is to have a doctor be honest about what to expect and you over stated the pain so it wasn't as bad as I expected." He laughed and said, "You must have a high pain threshold, most people yell at least." Ah, I'm off rambling again. "Expect some slight discomfort Paul." Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard Caststeel, glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you'll have a much better chance of getting together with members living within visiting distance. Do the drill marks show chatter or are they reasonably smooth? Have you run a sharp file across the face to check for hardness? A drill bit being able to cut an anvil face makes me suspect it's been through a fire and run the temper out of the face. She's a beauty though, looks to be in pretty decent condition. What do you have for a forge, tools, equipment, etc.? What are you planning on making? Frosty The Lucky.

A large part of the bloomery process is getting rid of slag like clinker. Frosty The Lucky.

Nice bull dozer die John, how wide have you tried to bend in it? Frosty The Lucky.

Compare it to the eye in his hammer, it's about 1" wide, maybe a bit more but yeah, Bryan isn't afraid to work heavy stock. Frosty The Lucky.

I can dowse a poker chip under a rug with coat hanger dowsing rods. Got me cussed by the boss when I'd dowse the keybox and track a waterline that needed thawing faster than he could get his metal detector out of the case and turned on. After the first couple times I'd start the welder and unship the cables while he looked for the keybox and waterline. The second time he looked up at me leaning on the thaw truck waiting on him he cussed me again and told me to find the fribbin frabbin line and box! A slow scan along the sidewalk till I crossed the waterline, followed it 2 steps to the keybox, then to the house where the other end of the ground wire emerged. Iron pipe in the ground I can explain but plastic? Gold in the ground is too sparse for me to dowse and I've never messed with finding water, no reason. Frosty The Lucky.

You'd have to lift Bryan's rounding hammer to understand why he tends to choke up on it. I lifted it once and wouldn't have tried swinging it without a double jack handle. Frosty The Lucky.

An emergency stop was the only thing I could think of but thought there might be other reasons. Looked up Lac Magentic disaster, a train with 70 tankers carrying crude oil was parked without hand brakes or a properly functioning engine and rolled away while the crew was . . . ? It derailed in the heart of the town of Lac Magentic, ground zero was burned to the ground and 47 died. Derailing it in the countryside would've been referrable though I doubt there would've been time to get a derailer bolted in place. Thanks. Frosty The Lucky.