SLAG Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 JHCC, 2 hours ago, JHCC said: One modification I’m going to make on the next one is to texture one side of the rod with a cross peen before I curl it into a spiral. I’ve had a couple of instances of the reins slipping a bit, and I think that will help. Glenn, a long time back, suggested using the thread of a bolt to texture the edges of iron leaves to fashion the toothed edges of those leaves. It can be used to enhance the gripof your very clever tong clips. A large screw would make diagonal indentations. Just a thought, SLAG. p.s. Thanks for your information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 Hmm...I think I have some long bolts that might work.... 36 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: I just use a piece of pipe mounted vertically in my vise I've dropped a rod into the pritchell hole of my anvil and used that with good success. The trick is to pull the end of the bottom coil, so that as the spring straightens, it drops down rather than riding up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Thanks, guys. This newbie is all ears. (eyes) Learning lots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Chris: How are you holding up in the storms? I want to know more about John's recumbent elephant sized spring he has out back, how he got it home and why. Uncoiling spring is easy and entertaining but you really need a helper to either remove and drop the coil on the spindle or have hold of the clamp and be ready to run. The first time we tried it at a club meeting we tried uncoiling an entire 6' overhead door spring. There wasn't enough cleared path in front of the shop door. Were we to dry it again we'd move to an abandoned road and use a tow vehicle. Maybe run it between 3-4 vertical rollers to help straighten it. That was I'm thinking 15 years ago and we haven't run out of stock. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 The pile is the size of a recumbent elephant, not the spring (nor, for that matter, the shop). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Frosty said: Chris: How are you holding up in the storms? Well hi there, Mr. Frosty. We've missed you this past week. Ran off to have a face lift??? The tornado that went through Norman, OK headed right at our house at 4am.................lifted off the ground 1/4 mile from our house (because we were praying) and landed 1/4 mile beyond our house. We were in the storm shelter in our garage floor. The only damage at our place was a few limb tips laying on the ground the next morning. Oklahoma has been suffering extensive flooding and water rescues are up drastically. At our house, all is well. I just keep my head down and keep working on knife making projects. But thanks for asking. Also, thanks for the comments on uncoiling garage door springs. Looks like one or two would make for a good source for blacksmithing projects for me to practice on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 That's good to hear Chris. All the folk in harms way haven't been far from my thoughts and prayers. Believe me, one garage door spring will last you a LONG time, it's handy stock. I'm off to nap now, having a mug like mine lifted is just exhausting. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 Try lifting your coffee mug. That'll perk you up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 I have it on good authority that Frosty is recovering from having accidentally bitten himself on his nose. Hopefully he won't be reduced to wearing a silver one like Strawn did in Cat Ballou. Perhaps we can crowdfund him a drone/coffee mug hybrid. (Perhaps I can: move, change my name and undergo plastic surgery before he next visits the lower lower 48....Anybody want to wear an Aloha shirt and lederhosen at Quad-State???) Pretty much everyone drops off for a bit from time to time for reasons ranging from travel to computer issues to alien abductions (the grey ones are easier to grab than the green ones!) I'm just glad when some of the folks climb back on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Well, Thomas, I for one am glad he's back. He always gives me solid advice.................not that others don't, but he most always puts it in a way my feeble brain understands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 I worked the Patch in OK during the early 1980's and bought my first smithing stuff when I was wandering through OK; (and I thought the prices were high back then!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Don't blame you for leaving. I've been here all my life (with the exception of "free room and board" for 4 years with the military) and have wished only to leave. I'm a "mountains" kind of guy. Spent 27 years as a professional photographer, backpacking to do my work. 99% of it in NM, CO, WY, and MT. Only thing keeping me in Oklahoma is all the "anchors" that would make it too hard/costly to make the move..................plus the fact I'm gettin' too old to shovel the amount of snow I could 50 years ago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Followed my work: OK to AR to OH to NM to MX, My Mother was born near Altus on a farm without electricity or running water---but they had a gas stove from a local well. I was born in NW AR and keep boomeranging back, I own 13 acres of Family land back there. However the last 15 years in NM has made the lack of ice storms and chiggers/mosquitos play heavily on where to retire too, that and I have a paid off house out here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 I love Northern NM and Southwestern CO. Beautiful country.............it's where my heart lives. Just can't afford for my body to join it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Lift my own mug?! Peasants. Good thing I have enough nose to spare. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ThomasPowers Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 I forgot you generally use a carrot....(speaking safely from a foreign country....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 31, 2019 Author Share Posted May 31, 2019 And the "two eyes made out of coal" thing is why he invented the Frosty T burner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 "eyes like burning coals" (Never get your contacts through "Sauron LLC"!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 31, 2019 Author Share Posted May 31, 2019 One thing I can assure you of, however, is that this particular tong clip was NOT forged in the fires of Mount Doom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Everybody is outsourcing these days; will the new tariffs affect them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latticino Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Here is a clever style of crimping tong clip that a friend of mine showed me (his, not mine, I have yet to set aside time to make one myself). I think it needs a bit more refinement, but even as shown it crimps down pretty well and releases with a flick on the outside arm. Needless to say this is two pieces that slide with a square tennon/socket style joint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 1 hour ago, ThomasPowers said: Everybody is outsourcing these days; will the new tariffs affect them? The SLAG says, You betcha!! And our president is fixing to tariff, (that is, tax, folks). all Mexican imports. (that will be 5% to start.) SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 31, 2019 Author Share Posted May 31, 2019 No politics on the forum, folks. Let’s get back to other fields of non sequitur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 8 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: I forgot you generally use a carrot.. Carefully picked carrot every one. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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