March 3, 20179 yr 16 hours ago, JHCC said: Over on the right-hand side, are those springs to hold bar stock? Or bar stock to hold springs? The springs are "stock" that hold "tools" i.e. pieces of pipe I use as levers when bending or tightening. They just happened to be there when I took the picture.
March 3, 20179 yr Author Works for things other than stock, in this case a bucket of pry bars. If you have a lot of stuff use 55 gallon drums, or 5 gallon buckets, or even 1 gallon buckets. You can add cardboard tubes to further separate the containers. Just be sure to drill a hole in the bottom of the container so any water can drain out. You do not want to start a mosquito farm.
March 3, 20179 yr 4 hours ago, Glenn said: Just be sure to drill a hole in the bottom of the container so any water can drain out. You do not want to start a mosquito farm. The five-gallon buckets I use already have the drain hole: they're recycling buckets left over from before our town went to single-stream collection
March 3, 20179 yr Clothes dryer turned into a forge. I use the fan in it as the blower for a disk brake fire pot. Sliding air gate for air control. Works great.
March 5, 20179 yr I use a saw tuning hammer as my dedicated drawing hammer. It has a nice vertical and horizontal peen with nice curved faces. It's apparently a very rare find, but it's a swell hammer. The best part? I got it for free.
March 5, 20179 yr 10 hours ago, Iron Poet said: I use a saw tuning hammer Hey IP. Do you have a pic of this. Interweb search for me shows nothing.
March 5, 20179 yr 4 hours ago, Kevin_Olson said: 15 hours ago, Iron Poet said: I use a saw tuning hammer as my dedicated drawing hammer. It has a nice vertical and horizontal peen with nice curved faces. It's apparently a very rare find, but it's a swell hammer. The best part? I got it for free. Hey IP. Do you have a pic of this. Interweb search for me shows nothing. Something like this? (From Richardson's Practical Blacksmithing, p.18)
March 5, 20179 yr 8 hours ago, Kevin_Olson said: Hey IP. Do you have a pic of this. 3 hours ago, JHCC said: Something like this? Yeah, it's pretty much that.
March 7, 20179 yr My forge is made from recovered items. The body is from a semi truck rim (cut down) with a manhole cover ring as the table, cut down grader blade legs, a donated Champion hand crank blower that I had to rebuild. The only thing I had to buy was the black pipe to attach the blower. It's been going trouble free for 30+ years.
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