JHCC Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 12 minutes ago, Farmall said: if you wear out the threads on the first part of the vise, simply insert a bevel gear with. Shoulder to move the bad thread out. Might have to give that a try! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 Not much followed us home since the trash compactor stopped any steel bin diving. Did pick up 2 old jack hammer bits for a dollar at the last BOA meeting. Then stopped by our steel supplier and got ten feet of 3/4 X 3 inch mild steel for dies that will be for the Smithing Magician Debi made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Nice finds. I like the post vise and hooks Farmall. Here is that gauge thing. I'm guessing it's for steam or pipe fitting similar to another tool I had found before. I'm not sure. On the other side of the name it says malleable iron. It's starting to look like sculpture potential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfeile Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 According to catalogue number 17 from 1940, that is a radiator nipple wrench Das. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Cool thanks. Explains how the small end could get twisted and bent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfeile Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 As soon as I saw the better photo, I knew it wasn't a two hole pin. I googled the company name and found an old catalogue. I honestly didn't know what it was until I looked it up but dang it, I had to know. Not a lot of tools that I don't know at least what it's used for, so I had to find that one out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 I do love learning a new ( old) curious tools purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanL Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Found this beauty at the scrap yard this weekend. Bryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfeile Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Is that a rebar shear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanL Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 I think so yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 26lber Like i used in my apprenticeship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gergely Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Wow! Not bad! May want to use a power hammer instead in these days... ? Bests: Gergely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Richter Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 A real blacksmith through and through he himself has hammer toes to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Richter Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 If got bronze, bronze, bronze –about 110lbs. Exchange it for 60lbs pure lead and a delicious crat of Belgium beer. No idea how to get it in my A5 /16lbs crucible!? (smashing with the sledge hammer/cutting in suitable pieces with the grinder?? –with all the loss of grinding dust) Help ……………….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Not sure the best method but I would saw it over grinding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Sledgehammer looks like a good option. Score with a cold chisel first, to get the break started where you want it to come apart. Do you have a portable bandsaw? That would work well, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Richter Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Unfortunately I don’t play any other ‘instrument’ except the angle grinder. First intention was to cover the pump blades with an old towel resting on an steel/stone plate and beat on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Put them in some heavy feed sacks and let the neighborhood kids go to town on them with hammers lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Richter Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Unfortunately also a chronic shortcoming of detached neighborhood children. Only neighbors of old age who sometimes themselves are too weak to push their rollator. LOL Have to do the job by my one and use Iron woodrows sledge hammer or toes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Well then maybe score it with a cut off wheel then hammer. A feed sack will be better then just a towel. But a towel is better then nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Richter Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Will try to create a sack from thick towels (asking Diana to sewing one - ..............she hate it) Btw everything as desired with your heir and beautiful daughter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted June 19, 2018 Author Share Posted June 19, 2018 Wrap bottom and sides in a blanket to contain the shards, use the towel or something thin for the impact area of the hammer so as not to cushion the blow. Rather than trying to break it in half, consider, score and break to control the break direction and the chip size. Position the chip so it is unsupported with a fulcrum on the other side of the score line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 She's doing great Hans. Not ready to swing a hammer yet but she is strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Richter Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Very nice to hear Das, I wish she have an even prosperous future as Lisa (15), my daughter and precious eye apple. Lisa went to secondary art school after school holidays. After discovering ‘dyscalculic’ (like here father) she goes for arts and crafts. So she will never become a smart calculating business-woman but hopefully a creative soul with here foots on the ground (wish she mets jlp some day). Regards, ‘Der’ Hans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 33 minutes ago, Glenn said: Rather than trying to break it in half, consider, score and break to control the break direction and the chip size. Position the chip so it is unsupported with a fulcrum on the other side of the score line. In other words, (1) score it where you want it to break, (2) flip it over and support it somewhere other than where you want it to break, and (3) hit it on the back side of where you want it to break, thus: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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