Info on forge

[Michael Gaudette]

I am looking for any info on a forge. It has part of a name. C. HA_ _ _ _MAN"S CO. PAT July 3, 1877, And a bucking horse. It looks like it is all there but it's frozen up. I will probably look to free it all up.

Thanks! Michael

[Jon Kerr]

https://buffaloah.com/h/bfloforge/

Found from googling. I did a quick contrast increase on the image and made out "Hammelman" Looks like Charles Hammelman, 1878, and your horse is a buffalo.

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

Looks like your Buffalo forge is restorable. I would start with a 50/50 mix of trans fluid and acetone (good penetrating oil) to free up the rusted parts. I always suggest reading this to get the best out of the forum. READ THIS FIRST

[Frosty]

I take a hose or pressure washer to the blower before I do anything drastic like take it apart. Lots of critters think the impeller fan makes dandy nesting grounds and half a century of mud dobbers and mouse skeletons can jam things up. Of course every kid on earth with a chance will drop stuff in while turning the blower, they make neat sounds you know. 

They are robust pieces of machinery meant to last centuries and be reasonably easy to rebuild just don't get in a hurry. If it still won't turn once you're sure its not jammed it's tie to give it a soak in 50/50 acetone/ATF. Every couple days give it a little rattle back and forth to help loosen the crud, the soak will break rust.

If that fails it's time to open her up, hopefully it's only a lock pin slipped part way out or a gear has moved on it's shaft.

Frosty The Lucky.

[BillyBones]

I am not sure about the ATF acetone mix i usually use PB Blaster on rusted up things. But if irondragon and frosty both recommend it i would use it. Plus a can of Blaster is like $9 as a quart of tranny fluid is $3. 

However i do know ATF. I would suggest not getting the new stuff that is mostly synthetics but get either a dexron 3 (dex-merc) or a type F. The new stuff does not have the detergents in it that the older style fluids had. I would guess that it is the detergents that make it break up the rust, kind of the same way they will wash away the clutch material on a burned up tranny.