gote Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 3, 2017 Author Share Posted March 3, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Olson Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Plus, the pieces come out pre-tumbled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Poet Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Olson Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Poet Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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