April 18, 201412 yr Darn it, "was" not "way". Spellcheck is no substitute for think check and proofreading.
April 19, 201412 yr Darn it, "was" not "way". Spellcheck is no substitute for think check and proofreading. You have that right John, It's as bad as hitting "Post" instead of "Cancel" or delete like I do oh so often. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky.
April 19, 201412 yr If I've got to suffer, John, I want everyone to suffer right along with me. :D Eric, I can completely understand that. There's something about the old tools that just speaks to the soul in a way that new junk never could. I feel really sorry for kids today when I think about what their "antiques" will be.
April 19, 201412 yr Hi All, and thank you for your help! There is a quite new vocabulary which I need to learn first to understand all of this but it's just more fun :) I will definitely check owwm.org, thanks VaughnT! Judson Yaggi: thank you for the pictures, those I understand almost completely :D I try to keep the lathe thing slow, I have had so many new fields in my life lately. Greetings Gergely
April 20, 201412 yr VaughnT Posted Today, 10:59 AM ... There's something about the old tools that just speaks to the soul in a way that new junk never could. I feel really sorry for kids today when I think about what their "antiques" will be. Their antiques will be our antiques... the new junk won't last long enough to become antiques.
April 20, 201412 yr 2 hammers and a hammer head followed me home from a car boot sale today, dont know what the hammer head is for, it seems to be hardened tool steel. checking the rack at work today I have some EN8 ( 1040 ) which I guess may be good for heads too, will cut a few blanks for people from the 25 and 30mm ( 1" and about 1 3/16" diameter )
April 21, 201412 yr Topic Summary Wroughton Posted Today, 05:13 PM Beaudry 125, strayed up on my porch. My wife and I have adopted several stray dogs. So I'm sure she wouldn't mind if I gave that poor fella a good home. ^_^
April 21, 201412 yr Not really mine to give away Ronin. But I'm gonna feed it and treat it nice and see if it wants to stick around. ; )
April 21, 201412 yr Well then, I guess since you plan on taking care of him instead of letting him languish forgotten somewhere... I hope he becomes a wonderful companion for you. I believe he will appreciate a healthy diet with high iron content.
April 21, 201412 yr Lunch I was going to pick up a lathe, had a call just before I got there that it was sold. Said I could look around because everything need to go. Here is the junk I got for $20.00 The hammer head is 13 lbs.( between vise and garage springs) not sure what it was used for. The large plate is aluminum 1/2 think. and the saw is a thumb hole D8 or D-8 have to clean it up.
April 21, 201412 yr Those cast iron hammer heads were used to drive wooden fence posts. They degrade quite rapidly if you try to use them on anything metal.
April 22, 201412 yr I believe the vee shaped piece is off a Model T magneto system. I have seen tons at auto swap meets. Nice score. I have one of those hammer heads, never knew what it was for.
April 22, 201412 yr Between the chisels is a part for a woodworker's bench the toothed part levers up so you can trap a board between your vise and (which should have a part that raises up to use for that task) it for planing or other work.
April 22, 201412 yr Thomas I was excited to fine it, I'm trying to decide were on my workbench to put it. On my things to make list was some Moxon Bench Hook (planning stops).
May 1, 201412 yr Was at an estate sale for lunch pick up a box of stuff for $13.00 best fine was a brass hammer head 2" round. I have been needing one for hot cuts.
May 2, 201412 yr If it still works that reversible switch is worth way more than $13 if you wire it into your lathe. Well done.
May 2, 201412 yr I like to use fancy air hardening tool steel like H13, and S7 for my struck tools so I always use a brass or copper hammer when I hit them. I use my regular forging hammer on the hot cut hardie:-) but I don't cut through (most of the time;-)
May 2, 201412 yr The reversible switch is my sell item. I always try to buy an item to sell so I can break even on the rest of the junk. Going to list it for $15.00
May 4, 201412 yr First new load of scrap from work. Stainless - A286, 17-4, 15-5, 321, and some various hex. Brass, hex,bar, and parts Bronze, commercial, and phosphorous Beryllium, large dia bar Copper, large dia bar, and parts Aluminum, larger tubing, and parts Carbon steel, 12L15, 1117 Several hundred pounds total, and the boss sold it to me for less than scrap rate BooYa! I also have almost 500# of .375" dia grade 6 Titanium that I still need to bring home. The scrap parts are to be used for some artistic projects. We make electrical contacts, fiber optic terminations,and aerospace parts. Lots of cool shapes. The Honda XR 500 is for a friend. $200 at a garage sale this morning.
May 5, 201412 yr There seems to be a fundamental law of the universe---more basic than Newtonian laws of motion, more widespread than E=MC^2---that when you have two domiciles the tool needed for a project is *ALWAYS* AT THE OTHER PLACE! You think ahead and bring the tool with you; tack weld it to the side of your anvil chain rabid pitbulls to the anvil stand and hire ex-swat team members to guard it and sure enough when you go out to work on the project it has mysteriously teleported to the other shop! So I was working on mounting a postvise at church; out back where the animal pens used to be, and of course none of the drill bits down here were the correct size: 5/8", 1/2" and 3/8"; nothing to be done but to stop by the fleamarket after church and find them. Unfortunately that means walking through the fleamarket dressed much more "upscale" than normal, never a good idea! The second booth had the needed bits---I whipped out my steel drill gauge and double checked and asked the dealer "how much for the 3 used drill bits" "$9"!!!! was the reply so I dropped them like they were infectious and told him I'd buy *new* at those prices for used. (I blame my go-to-meeting clothes and not thinking to ask in Spanglish) Luckily there were 3 other dealers at that small fleamarket that were all selling their medium sized US made HSS drillbits for US$1 a piece and so for $3 I had my choice and was able to go home and drill 7 holes in a piece of wide flange heavy angle to mount the vise to the steel post at the ex-animal pen before we hold out monthly smithing meeting their next Saturday. (I hope I didn't freak out the neighbors cutting the flange on my front yard with my heavy duty angle grinder...)
May 5, 201412 yr Yeah, don't want to dress upscale for swap meets, flea markets, yard and garage saling. I made a pretty good score today. Deb and I had to drive to Palmer after church some 25 miles give or take so we hit a few yard/garage sales on the way home. I've been looking for a teapot for the shop since last summer and haven't seen ONE and the thrift stores want new prices for the few they have. They still want new $ for those three teapots too. Found a dandy, large, stainless and $1.00, Sean and I can have a cup of Earl Grey for break in the shop now. I'm pretty sure it'll be next winter before we want to light a fire in the barrel stove though. Frosty The Lucky.
May 5, 201412 yr Stainless - A286, 17-4, 15-5, 321, and some various hex. Beryllium, large dia bar Several hundred pounds total, and the boss sold it to me for less than scrap rate BooYa! BIGGUNDOCTOR, I have scrap A286 and 17-4, I am wondering what you might have in mind for re-purposing these two materials? My A286 is in the form of ~ Dia. 1.25" x ~ 12" landing gear control pistons. Any cautions regarding the 25% Nickel content? And that stuff is a real challenge to hand work!! Berylllium?? Outside the confines of a qualified facility, what can one possibly do safely with that? At this point, I must confess that I own a collection of radioisotopes, but beryllium frightens my primitive brain more than those do. and as for the rest of your Loot, BooYa!, to say the least! Thomas Powers, I think people would pay good money for an image of you in your 'go-to-meeting' finery, but at least it has a drill guage pocket! Robert Taylor
May 5, 201412 yr I would love to have two rods or four rods of ti about 12 inches long if you can part with them PM me to work the details Brother Big DR
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