jumbojak Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 On 2/29/2016 at 8:18 AM, SpankySmith said: what is it with blowers and mud daubers? I disasembled/cleaned one that was full of 'em too, and I've read various posts here about the same phenom. Weird..... They like air compressors too. Especially the small pancake compressors with lots of plastic over the motor and intake assembly. Helped my brother with a project and we spent more time cleaning his compressor than we did using the nail gun. Anything that sits really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the iron dwarf Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 someone here wanted more details about the hammer so here it is: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 3 minutes ago, the iron dwarf said: someone here wanted more details about the hammer so here it is: Sweet! What are the dimensions on the straight peen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the iron dwarf Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 will get that for you tomorrow when im back at work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 I've managed to find 2 7 pound straight peens marked with the British Broad Arrow, one from the WWII years and one from the 1980's, Identical save for the dates. The older one I found in Ohio and the newer one at the Las Cruces NM, USA, fleamarket in the last ten years! (and wondering how it emigrated so rapidly...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 47 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: I've managed to find 2 7 pound straight peens marked with the British Broad Arrow, one from the WWII years and one from the 1980's, Identical save for the dates. The older one I found in Ohio and the newer one at the Las Cruces NM, USA, fleamarket in the last ten years! (and wondering how it emigrated so rapidly...) Probably came across as ballast in one of they new fangled flying machines. I always wonder at the financial implications of the government selling off tools like that of any date of manufacture...in what way can they have deteriorated to make them unsuitable for current squaddies to use? Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 I figured they walked home with one of the squaddies and gradually made it into the used market. Though I did once find an old supply company that had a crate of Broad Arrow Boilermakers Hammers, 1 Each from WWII; I gradually transferred them from there to Quad-State and could have sold several crates more. Helped me support my used tool addiction and of course I kept several myself! Now the straight peen from Las Cruces; it's pretty close to both White Sands test range and Fort Bliss so I wondered if anyone from the UK came over to use their facilities. (The German Air Force used to train out here---366 sunny days a leap year and a whole lot of "nothing" if you make a mistake. They just stopped and a whole lot of stuff from their store on the base hit the fleamarkets---I bought 4 pairs of brand new unused German army boots for US$4 a pair in my odd size. So I'm probably set for boots till I hit boot hill...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumbojak Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Never expected this. A couple who regularly eats at my restaurant came in yesterday and I got into a conversation with the husband about tools, since I need to replace my sockets that were either stolen or "borrowed" and never returned. His wife mentioned an old set they had in the garage and wanted gone to free up space. So this morning he showed up and passed these along to me! All made in USA with only a few missing. The next time they come in I plan on buying their meal. They wanted it to be a gift but I wouldn't feel right not offering something in trade at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagr8tim Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Picked up an early 2000's Dodge minivan rear axle. The axle will go under a 4x6 utility trailer I have to convert it to 5x4.5 (same as my Jeeps), and hopefully the rear disk brake assembly will end up on one of my Jeeps as a rear disk conversion. $50, and about an hour and a half of my time to pick it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Jak, Very nice of them and thats good of you to repay that kindness. Dagr8tim, hope it works for ya. what kind of jeep? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagr8tim Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 6 minutes ago, Daswulf said: Dagr8tim, hope it works for ya. what kind of jeep? The brake parts will most likely end up on my 1997 Jeep Cherokee. The parts physically fit the rim (the biggest fear). Now I just need to see if I can bolt the brackets to the Jeep axle (looking very promising). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Irondwarf: That's a "plate hammer." They're used to form or flatten steel plate. Basically a sheet metal shrinking or doming hammer on a BIG scale I have one with a longer face and pein, not quite on the same scale as a RR spike hammer but close. Mine's around 8-10lbs. but I haven't weighed it. It's darned handy for forging heavy stock like a BIG double jack turning or ball pein. Not to mention working plate though I have no idea how to flatten plate with one. The "straight pein" is a "stone mason's hammer" for dressing stone. I have one of those too, it weighs in a 16lbs. and tends to eat handles in use. Nice scores. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the iron dwarf Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 something I found today, made by allday and onions, a very large and unused tue / tuyre has tag from maker and is about 1 1/8" 28mm bore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Renaud Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 2 hours ago, Daswulf said: Jak, Very nice of them and thats good of you to repay that kindness. Dagr8tim, hope it works for ya. what kind of jeep? Check this axle tube out very carefully before using it ,I had a 96 Grand Caravan that the rear axle rusted through and snapped ,It took me 4 tries in scrap yards to find a replacement that wasn't rotted through in the same places as mine! Look around where brackets a welded to the main tube for thin spots or rot through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagr8tim Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 3 minutes ago, Leon Renaud said: Check this axle tube out very carefully before using it ,I had a 96 Grand Caravan that the rear axle rusted through and snapped ,It took me 4 tries in scrap yards to find a replacement that wasn't rotted through in the same places as mine! Look around where brackets a welded to the main tube for thin spots or rot through. Thanks for the tip. Once I get the brackets stripped off, I'll go through the axle well. It seems that the axle is a tube that then has a jog on both ends to offset the hub assemblies From what little I looked at it before the rain came in, it looks like the tube is a straight shot with both ends open. It'll probably get atleast wire wheeled and rattle caned after I get it cleaned up. I'll have a chance to inspect it carefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 4 hours ago, jumbojak said: Never expected this. A couple who regularly eats at my restaurant came in yesterday and I got into a conversation with the husband about tools, since I need to replace my sockets that were either stolen or "borrowed" and never returned. His wife mentioned an old set they had in the garage and wanted gone to free up space. So this morning he showed up and passed these along to me! All made in USA with only a few missing. The next time they come in I plan on buying their meal. They wanted it to be a gift but I wouldn't feel right not offering something in trade at least. Brilliant! I know it'll be a wrench but you could stump up for a nut roast for them at least for that set. I was going to make some crack about "making sure they didn't bolt their food" but decided against it.... Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumbojak Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 19 hours ago, Daswulf said: Jak, Very nice of them and thats good of you to repay that kindness. Just one of those strange things that happens in a day. I would try to make them something but, given my poor smithing skills and their desire to remove clutter, I think I'll just take care of a meal or two for them. 15 hours ago, Alan Evans said: Brilliant! I know it'll be a wrench but you could stump up for a nut roast for them at least for that set. I was going to make some crack about "making sure they didn't bolt their food" but decided against it.... Alan I must be losing my mental faculties... what's a nut roast? Bolting their food isn't such a problem, though the husband tends to turn one drink into another. Dang, I really am losing my mental faculties. That last pun is almost unrecognizable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 15 hours ago, Alan Evans said: I was going to make some crack about "making sure they didn't bolt their food" but decided against it.... Alan Good thing; otherwise, we all would have been screwed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepinJoe Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 My son and I were doing a little exploring in the woods behind the house and found this little gem in the woods. May have to make a gas forge out of it. So watch out for some future dumb questions after I do a bunch of reading in the gas forge section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Well I went to an auction with my father that I didn't think would have anything I'd want judging from the listing on line. ( father son time, about all we ever do together) and low and behold there was a post vise there that wasn't listed it ended up following me home. Had a repair that I will re-repair correctly screw looks good. It's on the short side at just under 3' tall. Anyone ever hear of H*LOSE? Not worried about it just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagr8tim Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 4 hours ago, JeepinJoe said: My son and I were doing a little exploring in the woods behind the house and found this little gem in the woods. May have to make a gas forge out of it. So watch out for some future dumb questions after I do a bunch of reading in the gas forge section. I made a smelting forge out of one of those. It's alot safer to cut into than a propane tank. LOL Some home made refractory and an old brake rotor welded to the top makes a great metal smelter for casting. Mine's a 2" exhaust pipe, and I use an HF weed burner and the Bernoulli effect to allow to pull the burner in and out of the pipe to modify the AF ratio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the iron dwarf Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 after smelting you may want to improve the metal you get from the ore before casting with it. or are you not smelting and are just melting scrap, they are different processes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud in PA Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Nice find Das. Every once and a while I check out EB auction. I can't believe how much prices have gone up in the past couple of months since I bought my anvil and leg vise. When I bought them I was a little nervous about the money I spent, when I peruse the auction sites now I smile when I see what they are charging now for comparable pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klorinth Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 While getting some work done on the vehicle I did some dumpster diving at the local shops... I think I did fairly well. Especially seeing as the scrap guy had just done his regular pickup on Thursday. I'm not sure what these three pieces are but they are nice and heavy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzkill Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 They look like king pins from a large truck to me - in the steering. Can't be sure without better pic angles though. Either way, those and the S cam shafts you picked up should be at least medium carbon steel. I made a flatter from an S cam shaft like you have there. Worked fine, but was a lot of heating and beating without any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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