ThomasPowers Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Broke the handles and threw the hammers away? I tend to buy my hammers handleless as they are much cheaper and often any handle in place will just need to be replaced and pretty much always reset if not needing to be replaced! I remember haggling with a fleamarket dealer over a hand forged hammer that he wanted way too much for; he kept harping on the fact that he had put a new handle in it---and did such a crummy job of it that I finally just pulled the "new" handle out of the hammer and handed it to him and said "How much for just the head?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Mail call! (Which, according to USPS tracking, left Springfield, OR, went to Eugene, OR, went up to Anchorage, AK for a week, went down to Federal Way, WA for another few days, swung through Warrendale, PA for a couple of days, and finally came over to Ohio this morning. Still trying to figure that one out.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Don't bother John, if anybody could figure it out it would just come to your local annex, then to you. Mother retired from the USPS and after 30 years never understood the routing. We used to sit at the table after dinner, before game time and she'd relate some of the paths mail took. Something would be mailed from the San Fernando Valley to another address in the San Fernando Valley and spend a week or two bouncing around the country. We couldn't make up a silly route that was sillier than the reality. It's like the time a couple friends and I tried to write spoofs of stories in the Enquirer. Just not possible. How do you spoof a story about a housewife driving off an attacking hoard of VW beetle sized carnivorous Scarab beetles with a . . . mop? Great mail call, I wish I got mail calls like that. Mail envy is a terrible thing. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 How about the time my temperature sensitive insulin, packed in a styrofoam cooler with cold packs was sent all the way to the east coast during a heat wave---stored in unairconditioned buildings and trucks. I refused US$3000 of medication and it had to be replaced. (Replacement got to me in 2 days with the cold packs still cold. Same company, same address.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Good reason to refuse delivery Thomas. There are a legions of stories of frozen fish and game meat getting sent on long journeys and stored in hot places. The USPS requires special boxes now. There was a story I heard when I first moved here about a fellow packing a frozen King salmon in an old Coleman cooler with dry ice, sealing it with window putty and taping the heck out of it. According to the story after about 2 months in a 120f. warehouse decomposition pressure blew it open. On a day it was closed. I always suspected the story had been embellished a BIT. A cooler of rotting stuff sitting in a hot storage facility happens all the time though. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul TIKI Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 I'm imagining the smell...Wish it was still before lunchtime, dernit. We try not to order anything temp sensitive to go through USPS. Will pay a little extra for FedEx if we absolutely have to. Not a surefire solution, but is usually better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Well not smithing but this morning we woke up with 4 of our neighbors guinea hens in our yard outside our open bedroom window. Now these beasts are LOUD and my wife had had a bad night and I was going to let her sleep in as long as possible, I even fed her share of the animals. I went out and they couldn't figure out how to get back over the fence; so I finally opened the gate to our fenced in yard and escorted them out. I hope they enjoy the freedom of the neighborhood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 When my grandmother passed in January a few years ago my uncle was cleaning out the house. He put the refrigerator out on the porch. Come along about September some one opened it. He had left a package of fish in the freezer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 20 hours ago, Irondragon ForgeClay Works said: They are all leaf spring normalized with bolts along the haft through the spring. Randy, that's a neat, unique way to connect (or should I say haft) a piece to it's handle. More bearing surfaces for strength. A punch-through would be pretty weak. Frosty, re: your story about routing the mail is familiar. Our water system has a PO box for receiving paid bills about two rows below my mail box at our rural post office. When I pay my water bill at the PO, it has to go 81 miles each way to a processing center in Fayetteville, AR and returned back to the PO box below mine. They used to hand stamp local mail going to the same PO and stick it in the PO box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pre6422hornet Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 I have been searching for leg vice for quite some time now and missed out on quite a few, but this one came up a few weeks ago about 5 miles from my house. The person just wanted to get rid of it and the price was right so me and the girls ( 4 daughters) went over to check it out. It looks to me to be a Peter Wright but I am not an expert. It has no stampings that I can find even after wire wheeling her other than a very faint "50" stamped on to the front. It does have the two lines cast into the screw housing similiar to a PW I believe. Anyway I took it completely apart, wire wheeled it all, greased the screw a bit, re positioned the spring so it actually worked and opened the jaws, and mounted it on a crude shelf. I am not at the point of pounding anything on it yet, only twisting railroad spikes and holding scales for hand sanding before glue up. I will mount it up properly in the future. Will also straighten the leg at a later date as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 50# vise is a good starter and can transition to a travel vise as you find larger ones. (My travel vise is a 45# one.) What condition is the screw and screwbox in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pre6422hornet Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Frosty your story regarding mail hits home. So right after Thanksgiving my wife shipped out an order of clothes from our boutique to a customer who asked for shipping even though she lived 1.5 miles away ( we offer free shipping). Took 9 days to go 1.5 miles. Actually it went 1/3 mile to the post office, then back past the shop and 1.5 miles to the customer.... 1 minute ago, ThomasPowers said: 50# vise is a good starter and can transition to a travel vise as you find larger ones. (My travel vise is a 45# one.) What condition is the screw and screwbox in? Hey TP they are both in pretty good condition. The screw has very sharp edged threads and it holds nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 The TPAAAT is all about shopping local and getting good prices for good equipment! Now did they know of any other smithing stuff that might be available locally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pre6422hornet Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 No they didn't. It was a " this was my grandads and it was in his basement". I did walk away with an old wood pulley on a chain that used to " hang in grandads barn" as well. I plan on hanging it in our house eventually. To cool to throw away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.J.Lampert Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 (edited) so i got all this today 2 55 drums 1 for a charcoal retort and 1 for whatever else i need .(ideas welcome though 55 forge will possibly be disregarded asalready have a propane and a JABOD in plans with old bar-B-Q) price? free i picked this clamp for holding handle scales together (face could use a little cleaning with a file but it'll work ) at the local man shed as well as a new canon camera for $10 with some other nick nacks(pays of to help the older men with bending and lifting while i wait for the 3D printer to finish on school projects) also my father brough home a load of bearings and a pin after changing them from a skidder center pivit the pin whil be use as an anvil via a few slight mods it will work much nicer than the cast aso if been trying to use the last 2 years also i told my father to hold back on bringing grease coated bearings (these went through a semi vigourous varsal cleaning before pic and still have plenty to show) welding glove for scale overall a good day M.J.Lampert Edited May 1, 2021 by M.J.Lampert left out a section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 I use a hand held propane torch or the coal forge to burn the grease off bearings like that. A long time ago I received about 50 pounds of them and built a wood fire in the fire ring and threw them in, grease was turned to ash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 Went to the scrap yard Saturday morning; picked up about 20' of 3/4" sucker rod, another scrapped welding gas tank to make a dishing form, (NOT an ACETYLENE tank) and a bell from. Picked up some washers and nuts and a container of pop rivets. Also another pick head to mess around with and a pitchfork, (not a spading fork). I cleaned up some scrap around my shop that will go to the scrapyard finally---reminded me of what was said about a friend of mine in Columbus Ohio, USA: "One man's trash is another man's treasure; but Terry's trash is NO man's treasure!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Mail call: welding hose fittings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.J.Lampert Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 nice i need to make a order and mail call soon too M.J.Lampert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Closer, closer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Also a successful run to the industrial surplus place: a box of 2” x 2” x 6” wire brushes, four 2” x 50 yard rolls of 400 grit Al2O3 grinder belting, a 25 lb spool of 0.035” flux-core wire (which I now have to figure out how to use with a welder that only takes 10 lb spools max), a small (and quite filthy) stepladder, and two boxes of filters for the home furnace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 JHCC you can always run the flux core with a stick welder...12" at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 JHCC, wind the wire up on an old 10# spool, cut it and put the rest away till needed again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 I was going to suggest building a spool winder...Don't forget to store with a desiccant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Problem is, I don’t have an empty 10-lb spool to wind it on, just the 2-lb on it now. I’ve been mentally playing with the idea of making some kind of mounting for the big spool and having the wire run to the feed mechanism after taking a few turns around the small spool, rather like a sailboat winch. Probably more trouble than it’s worth, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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