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[EWCTool]

I returned home from a trip and aquired many feet of old drive shaft and axle shafting. I beleive that the drive shaft was from a well drilling rig. I want to make anvil tools and hammer heads from them. I would like some advice on how others have gone about doing this.

[double_edge2]

yup...i have just done a diagonal pein out of 40mm square axle and a hardie block from 45mm...k1045 is the stuff i get, called axle material here. but your local engineer or experienced forum surfer from here should give you an idea of your material make up, do the spark test with a grinder failing that, and the smart cookies on here will inform you of anealing, heat treatment, hammer heat windows if any, sizes, and cautions.

Edited August 19, 2009 by double_edge2

[Glenn]

Contact Brian Brazeal and attend one of his fall 2009 classes in NC, VA, (your area). He will show you how and you will produce your own hammer head in the class.

Look at the 1000 series of blueprints on hammer making.

[ThomasPowers]

I assume it was a water well drilling rig...does it have a center hole through it? If so you may need to forge weld faces on it.

[EWCTool]

The shafting was used for well drilling, and i checked and rechecked that it is solid.

Earlier today I started forging a hardy from 1.5 inch axle all by hand. You guys with power hammers must be thankful.

[Frosty]

Is it square? If so it's a "Kelly Bar" and probably a medium or high medium carbon steel.

Frosty

[EWCTool]

No it is round stock, some of them have threaded ends

[phil shelton]

posable drill stem from cable tool reg no hole threw center

[Oak Hill Forge]

EWCTool = where are you located ? I'm in Waynesboro, Va. I got some hex shaped shafting at an auction in McDowell Virginia. It's about 1 1/4" and it does have a 1/4" hole in the center, anybody have an idea of it's origin ?

[kubiack]

It might also be polishing rod. In the oil fields around here they use a solid rod about and inch and a half to run inside of the drill stem to clean then out.