USANewbie Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 That would make a good anvil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 A nearby fab shop is closing its doors and so selling off their drops at 40¢/lb. Got some good sheet stock for bowls*, some round bar, and some chunks of 4140 that should come in handy. * Probably enough for 35-40. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USANewbie Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 A decorative metal gate followed me home from a jobsite. I turned it into a Torch cart. I had another cart that followed me home but it was too flimsy, so i made another. I'll post pics when its done. I still need to weld the wheel brackets and handles on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 On 10/15/2021 at 3:30 PM, BillyBones said: for? I said i do not know right now but i sure aint turning it down. Lol I’m terrible about doing the same thing now I’ve got several tons of waiting to be projects setting around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swedefiddle Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 And that is a problem???? It is called Inventory!!! You look around your 'Special Locations' and ideas create themselves. No Problem!!! Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobtiel1 Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 By your recommendation, an automatic welding hood arrived today. And last week Practical Blacksmithing arrived in the mail! ~Jobtiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Big slab would make a nice upsetting plate on the floor of the shop. Got out to the scrapyard Friday morning and they were closed; called and they said they were running errands and would be open about the time I would be 50 miles down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Small axe punch fought for me by Brent Bailey. Later he showed me how to make the Drift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Very nice DHarris! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 A Facebook Marketplace listing and five bucks led me to a bucket of interesting bolts, including a few that should make some nice little dishing forms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 John, now you can take your i bolts and I nuts and change them into ideas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 My large A/O welding tanks were empty so I decided to down size a little to tanks that would fit on a cart I picked up at a BOA meeting for $10 US. The large tanks wouldn't fit on it. Before... After and a hole in my wallet but at least I can move them easier. These followed me home too good for small jobs like setting rivets etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USANewbie Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 IronDragon, i bought a smaller Oxy tank because the big one is a bear to move. It doesn't last as long as the big tank but I'm going to trade the big one in for another smaller one, that way i'll have two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leather Bill Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 On 10/18/2021 at 10:33 AM, ThomasPowers said: Got out to the scrapyard Friday morning and they were closed; called and they said they were running errands and would be open about the time I would be 50 miles down the road. WHAT! First we had TPAAAT where the mention of looking for a decent anvil in any barber shop or garage sale between Phoenix and Ok City usually resulted in being told ThomasPowers already asked them to let him know if one become's available. Now he's at the gate when scrap yard opens in case something worthwhile came in the day before. If I rushed out every morning with such anticipation my wife would accuse me of seeing another woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 It helps that the scrapyard is only 6 miles from the house and just across the road from the Trash Transfer Station where we have to haul our household trash and pay them to take it. (They charge by 55 gallon black bag and I fit twice as many kitchen garbage bags in a black bag than my wife does---I can carry them too. So now my wife *encourages* me to take the trash out *and* to stop by the scrapyard as I've got her saving her Aluminum cans and getting paid for them...) John, I have a lifting eye like those that I forged the end to fit in the hardy hole and forged it to lie flat on the anvil. For smaller ones you can sleeve the end with appropriate sized square tubing. Nice to keep the dishing from from moving around when working deep along a side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 Hmm. I'd been thinking of cutting the bolt ends off and welding on a piece of squared-up 1" schedule 40 pipe (which fits my ~7/8" hardy hole rather nicely), but that's certainly worth a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USANewbie Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 A rail track ASO followed me home today. It had a nice horn on it which i can use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Bought a blower at the SCABA “Iron in the Hat” auction. Canedy-Otto Western Chief. Works great, but leaks oil about as fast as you pour it in. Needs to be wire brushed and painted. Handle needs to be rebuilt as well. I paid $160. Didn’t need it, but the Iron in the Hat auction is how some of the club’s costs to put on the conference are paid for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Don't "POUR" oil in! You might as well pour it on the floor. I add a FEW drops in the oil points at the beginning of a session and everything stays nice and oily for hours. Then again I use chainsaw bar oil with about a 1/4 cup of Duralube per gallon. It makes a very sticky lubricant and is excellent lubrication. The stuff is intended to stick in the little chain groove in a chainsaw bar and not get slung off on the first turn past the end of the bar. Chainsaw bars and chains are a high friction environment and the oil is good. Guys who use used motor oil in their saws have to replace chains and bars stupid too often but some folk happily spend a bundle to save a buck. I use my bar oil blend on the power hammer and heck anything needing a few drops of oil. My 50 lb. Little Giant doesn't slobber or sling oil though a little does run off the ram slides. Frosty the Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Is that a "Fill to an opening on the side" type of blower? If so DON'T OVERFILL! If still leaks when not overfilled then you may want to clean it and put a bit of gasket in a tube gunk when reassembling. If it's a regular style then a couple of drops of oil when you go to use it will be fine---and you may want to stand it in a tray of kitty litter as they are sort of an oil flow through device. Not an issue back in the day of a dirt floored shop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Griffin Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Or you can get a can of open gear lube. Black and tacky. One good spraying should last a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 I have a Canedy-Otto blower that is the oil bath type. I discovered that even when tightly reassembled it leaks. Even though I have dirt floored shop I don't want oily dirt. So, I just set a jar directly under the blower and when it accumulates a reasonable amount I pour it back in. (sort of like the Soldier in White in Catch 22). I haven't kicked it over yet. I haven't wanted to tear the blower down again to put some sort of gasket between the halves of the casing. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Just got an empty Ar-CO2 cylinder that I plan to turn into dishing forms. This is a T-size cylinder that nominally weighs 143 pounds, so the welding supply place’s flat fee of $15/tank brought this home to me for well under scrap price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Bell, gas forge shell, dishing form; all that is left is the squeal and the cutting swarf! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 I was planning on using the top as another dishing form, as I did with the top of the scuba tank that became my first two dishing forms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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