Armand Tatro

My philosophy is you ain't gonna learn any younger so you might as well get started! Armand

Any pictures? Armand

With a high table you will want to have the top of your floor a foot to 18 inches above grade to avoid some of the problems listed above. Armand

Good beginning for a low heavy duty striking vise so don't fix the leg.. You will never regret it! I have a vise with a short leg and that is what I plan to use it for. I have 2 or 3 complete vises for standard duty vise work so I can use the one with the damaged leg for a low striking vise. See Brian brazeal's discussion on buidding a striking vise and you will understand what we are talking about. By the way I may not have spelled Brian's last name right. If so sorry Brian! Armand

What is a faro machine? Any pictures? Thank you. Armand

Jwill: Could please post a picture or two of your anvil/vise please? Thank you > Armand

Farmall: How many CD's it take to hold 9 MB's? I would like to transfer that information to a disc as soon as I download it. Thank you for your help and information. Armand

Anyone have any information about this show/meeting/demo. Any pre registration required? Thank you for any information. Armand

Salesman sample? Armand

I would take shiny over rusty any day! You spent all that time and energy to bring that anvil back to life so let live with its shiny glory. With any kind of use at all I would to think it will stay shiny. Armand

Matt K. Would it be possible to post a picture of the vise? to the right of your anvil and wood stand in picture number 2 and some information about it? Thankyou. Armand

Thankyou for the pictures of the door. Other than the bi-fold doors That are cable lift on the inside the doors that I have seen like yours use hydraulic cylinders to lift them. This door is the first one I have seen with a cable lift. Thanks again! Armand

Could we see a picture or two of the hanger door? Like your forge/tatle/vise mount. Thank you Armand.

Working with cub scouts I would have kept both small forages so as to get as many people involved as possible. Also keeping the small one means you don't have to fire the big one if you only needed a small.fire for a short time. Also you woud have three forages if you hosted a hammer-in. Consider all thoughts and possibiles before giving away to much. Armand

Why did you ruin a perfectly good anvil as opossed to making a fabricated anvil seeing as you added so much more steel to the anvil? Why not use all salvaged steel and still have a useable anvil for hand forge work? Armand

At 5 ft. 7 in. tall I would have to elemate the wood blocks as that vice is mounted too high to be comfortable for me to use unless that table is extremly short. If you need the spacers I would replace the wood with steel as steel would be a solider mount. Armand

Pug)-(maN Thank you for your reply. Maby someone will come along and enlighten both of us. By the way fantastic shop! Thank you for taking the time to share your build with us. Armand

What can you tell me about your soldering iron heater? Been wanting for years. I have a 3 burner Majestic and wondering if I used 1 burner if I could cut the heat down low enough to not over heat my soldering irons? It has the side door as well as end doors. I also have a infra-red temperature sensor to measure temperature. How much temperatere do I need to heat soldering irons? Thank you for any further information you can provide. Armand

Looks like it does a good job of burning propane but what more do you have to do to it to make it heat metal? As it is looks to me it is a nosie shop heater. Lets heat and shape iron and make tongs or other useful tools! Armand

Aaron: Their is a diesel engine repair shop in Irwin, Il.(west of Kankakee, Il.) that has a machine that can vibrate/heat its way thru a broken headbolt or whatever without putting too much heat on what you want to save. I can't remember the name of the machine however. The point is their should be a repair/machine shop in your area that would have thise same machine that you could take your vise to. Maybe somebody on this site can put a proper name to this machine. Meantime I will try to get more information tomorrow. Armand

Do you have any co monitors installed? I would want to think that would be the first thing to have no matter how good your vent. system is. Armand

Looks like you got done with Christmas just in time to start Valintine's Day presents! LOL! Good looking presents! Armand

My thoughts also. Joel has a neat shop!

VFInc: Did you try the link to his website? I tried a while back but could not make contact. Might be my computor as threr is some software I do not have installed. As a side note he did a CNC-controled Plasma pattern cutting table build and that build was detailed on this forum but I forget what chapter. He used that pattern cutter to make the nice cuts on the hammer frame. You all have a happy New Year! Armand

A. J. Clay had plans and started one of these builds 22 Dec 2010 under the heading of "New Style Kinyon Project/Drawing" on this page. http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/19796-new-style-kinyon-project-drawing/?hl=%2Bkinyon+%2Bproject not finished that I know of and hasn't updated in about a year. Go down this page and you will see where I tried to contact him. Click on that and you will find quite a few of his build and a link to his home page. Good luck with your build and update your progress. Armand