ThomasPowers Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Wow it must really be hot out where you are---our heat indexes are lower than the ambient temperatures usually! (Single digit humidities will do that!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Humidity is usually lower than folk would think here, tough single digit is usually clear winter weather humidity. Heat index is usually lower than ambient. Heat index not to be confused with chill factor though both effects apply to hot or cold. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Yes a lot of people are surprised to find out that the poles qualify as deserts as "desert" is based on precipitation not temperature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepinBoon Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 You lucky dog you. LOL! I just trued the ends of a torch cut 316 stainless pipe, 6" ID, 13" long, on the lathe for a propane forge and now I've got slivers and shavings EVERYWHERE. No magnet can help me. Today was 91f humidity at 56% heat index I think was 101. What brand hammers do you use? What is your most used hammer shape? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I've posted some of mine on the show us your hammers thread. In general I buy shape rather than brand and so have a large number of brands: Woodings Verona Tool Works are well represented as are Atha, Fairmont, some english brands, german brands, french brands, etc. And I have a crate of hammer heads sources as stock for other projects like stake anvils Yes I am a hammer junkie; but most were bought for US$5 and under. I don't own a single "fancy" $100+ hammer. (Bought my Lynch Collection ones early and cheap!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepinBoon Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 AH-HAH!!! Thank you for the tread reference ThomasPowers! I couldn't see the forest for the trees. I was asking all the wrong questions and ended up with way too specific requirements for a hammer. I wish I could find even five hammers like what's on that single rack. Louisiana is a dead zone for good antiques, hammers included. We had a scrap iron price hike many years back and everything that wasn't bolted down and closely monitored was scrapped or stolen for scrap. This is the Dunning-Kruger effect. I'm hopefully at the bottom of Mt. Stupid and in the Valley of Despair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 A lot of my hammers are not antiques; just 60's 70's and 80's stuff from garage sales. I do have matching 7 pound straight peen sledges marked with the broad arrow and one stamped 1943 and the other stamped 1983. One found in Ohio and the other in New Mexico... (Of course others are 100+ years old---but bought as rusty old tools not antiques!) I find some of my hammers at the scrapyard for scrap price. The thing with blacksmithing is to not get hung up on tools---watch the videos of people in third world countries forging with *rocks* or crudely made hammers that were probably truck axles pieces. It's the *skills* you need to develop; then the fancier hammers can speed things up for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 WHAT?! 60s and 70s isn't antique? All my stuff isn't worth it's weight in gold? DRATS! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I get rather annoyed by folks calling stuff antique when it isn't; most types of stuff have an established date for when it turns antique; cars at 25 for instance; furniture---used to be 100 years but now a lot of folks claim it's 50 which means a lot of us can remember buying such "antiques" new. Another annoyance is the mass branding of things as "vintage" especially when posted in the "antique" section of CL.---Must be Friday! I've mentioned before being at the flea market and running into dealers who think "old" means "expensive" and offering them a piece of gravel from the ground and telling them it was a million times older than what they were trying to sell; but I'd trade them even... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 But but there's rust! It must be a vintage antique! You don't think rust just happens overnight do you? Uh. . . Yeah, it's Friday, twit your friends day. It kind of sucks to think that when I had the dead 86 4x4 Chevy pickup crushed it was a valuable antique. Double DRATS! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I have three vehicles with antique tags and want a lot of money when I sell them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepinBoon Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 Man I agree with ya'll. We need a new classification system! I can put antique tags on a 95 chevy S10... Antique also determines wether my slot machines are legal in Louisiana. Only one machine left that is illegal but I ain't advertising. No interesting hammers at the antique stores in Vicksburg but I did pay WAY too much for a ROWE FDRY 22lb anvil shaped object. Took pictures of the *anvil tower*. Gotta have symmetry, I'm weird like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Crew Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Frosty and Thomas You are both antique And your knowledge is worth its weight win gold ! Thanks for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Nice try Old Crew, I don't blush that easily. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 They are just puppies compared to some of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 I reupped my curmudgeon card over the weekend. Read a good book on Damascus Steel cover to cover and found myself penciling in corrections where the translator didn't know how the technical terms should be translated from the German to the English. Luckily I *own* that copy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Are you sending the corrections to the publisher? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 I figured someone must have as it's been out there 7? years; but as they have an email listed I probably will. I need to go back and review the start of the book---before I stopped gritting my teeth and started with the pencil. (A bit of the shame as there is a lot of stuff in there I really like.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Ah, a REAL curmudgeon would've gotten himself on the ignore list demanding corrections by now. You MUST like the book. This is almost enough to buy a copy just to quote things that irritate you on low BG days. That way I can save IFI members who don't understand. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 But Frosty it wasn't I who blackballed your membership to the league of Extraordinarily Ungentlemanly! I suspect it was someone in the Mod Squad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 I was? Cool, just a bunch of bounders contriving to sound ungentlemanly. What excuse do I need to twit folk? You can be so eloquent in response, I often learn printable new words. It's a win win. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepinBoon Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 Life has its ups and downs. I finished a railroad track anvil yesterday and knocked the tower down today. Three anvils fell off the top of the pile and punctured one of my solar power batteries and the Hay Budden crushed a playstation 2... The up side is I've got several offers on the RR anvil, lol. Nobody has any RR track to trade. Pic before the crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 If you are ever out this way; my local scrapyard has a dozen pieces of rail 3' and under in a couple of different sizes; 20 UScents a pound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Out of curiosity, why did you make such a high stack where tipping over can do so much damage? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Probably trying to lure the earthquake closer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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