Eventlessbox Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Followed me to work technically. A bday gift from my sister with another pair on their way from another sister. They are Caliburn small vbit bolt tongs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobasaurus Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 On 10/13/2019 at 5:08 AM, pnut said: . I used to have a friend who had a prop business in North Hollywood. I never knew what I might see when I'd stop by. It was one of my favorite places to visit. I sold quite a bit to him also. Good find. Any time a prop business is selling it's inventory it's worth a look. It was a crazy place to wander around, here are some pics of the inside. That same day I went to the sawmill and bought some nice pieces of hardwood (two maple legs, a maple stretcher, and a russian olive top) to make a side table for my bed. I'll have to think about forging some hardware for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Found this by my barn today. I was looking through some rocks for a piece of flint. Looks like some clinkers and some coke or almost coke coal. The house is old enough that there was most likely a forge in the barn for what ever reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Or it was a good place to dump the ash and clinker from the coal furnace in the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Gazz, that never even dawned on me. I am having one of those "DUH" moments now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Followed me home from the festival demo today. I couldn’t pass up the price, especially considering the condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 The Buffalo 200 is a very good blower, from what I see ya done good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 I was very pleased! Same blower that I was using for the demo, but much more smooth and quiet. Pan and fire pot are in great shape, just some work to do on the kinked breaker, the assembly. I’ll probably have to make a frame with casters to make it more mobile. (I have to move it out of the garage to forge and with a 3/8” cast pan, this thing is heavy!) David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 With the cast iron pan, it's advisable to clay it so it doesn't crack from the heat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Couple of history books from the college library: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Which "Irons in the Fire" is that? There is one on down hearth cooking and another on cowboy stuff with that title, (IIRC I have both). I believe there is actually a third book with the same title as well. "Bond of Iron" is a bit dry, I wonder if it was derived from a thesis? It's about an iron smelting business in VA between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. (Got that one too.) Not much about the technology; more about the social/economic aspects. Like they used to rent slaves from their owners to work there; preferred them to the Irish as they didn't show up for work drunk... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 1200# of what i think TSC would call nut coal. KY bituminous. Now just to get it unloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Irondragon, Should I really clay the fire pot? On all of the solid fuel forged I have used (at demos or othe IBA members forges) that have manufactured/cast fire pots have not been clayed. The only warning I have ever received was not water into the pot when shutting everything down. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobasaurus Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Wow, how do you find that much coal in the wild? Did you have to dig it yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 It's the table that needs clay, not the fire pot. Most newer forges the table is made from steel so don't need clay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 33 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Which "Irons in the Fire" is that? There is one on down hearth cooking and another on cowboy stuff with that title, (IIRC I have both). I believe there is actually a third book with the same title as well. This is similar to “Bond of Iron”: a social and economic history of an iron-smelting and plantation-owning family in colonial and pre-Civil War Virginia. 25 minutes ago, BillyBones said: 1200# of what i think TSC would call nut coal. KY bituminous. Now just to get it unloaded. TSC nut coal is anthracite, not bituminous. “Nut coal” proper is simply a measurement of size, where the lumps can fit through a screen with openings no bigger than 1-5/8" x 13/16". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 OK then that is the third book with the same name. I got BB's joke and wish I could get some of that coal! We've been using the Sewell Seam stuff I'm accrued over the years and I've gotten spoiled all over again. At a demo once Frank Turley showed up with a couple of lumps of coal that size and borrowed my forge and was forge welding in the fire they made. Of course as they heated up they tended to subdivide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 IFC, sorry! Misread your post twice. (Sometime my brain just sees the words it wants to!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 In the “it followed me away from home” department, I gave away this little drill press to the theater department at the college. It’s better suited to their needs, and a small way of showing my gratitude for the big drill press they gave me and for letting me use the welder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 This showed up at my work last week thanks to a very thoughtful member here who decided to give me a deal I couldn't have hoped to find locally. Now to clean it up and put it to work. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker77 Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 334 pages, Historical Fiction, but seems to follow closely the story of an actual German immigrant who made his way as a youth to the Cleveland, Ohio area in the mid 1800's to apprentice as a blacksmith in a wagon-building business. Well written and enjoyable read, but the most interesting thing to me was the apparent accuracy of the terminology. The writer (a lady) had a solid handle on the language of blacksmithing during the period, especially where wagon-building and working with wrought iron was concerned. A novel, not a technical treatise, but enough iron-pounding involved to be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 So there i was sitting outside when my mom and dad show up. My mom comes over and says to me that my aunt (her sister) found something that she wanted to give me. My grandfathers knife he carried when stationed in England. It is a WW2 issue British SAS dagger. My grandfather was in the Air corps, later to become the Air force. Anyway here it is. A beautiful specimen of history in my opinion. Any knife guys with some advice on how to clean up the blade would be appreciated. And yall W. Virginia guys may recognize Doddridge, Doddridge county is named after my moms family. Something to do with one of my ancestor working to make it a state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Your knife is a classic "Fairbairn-Sykes" commando dagger used by British special forces during World War Two and beyond. I believe S.A.S. still use them today. SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Fairbairn Sykes (typo in Slag's post; so if he doesn't catch it before the editing window closes...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairbairn–Sykes_fighting_knife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 T.P., Thanks. I fixed it. SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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