JHCC Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Also, mail call: a pound of pine rosin, with which I intend to make some chaser’s pitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Where can I get one of these? Or something which would serve the same purpose? It appears to have broken off mine at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dax Hewitt Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Looks like a 1/8th or 1/4 valve. Old style brass one. Why would a hand crank blower have a valve though ? Only thing i can think of is to open it before pumping fresh grease in to allow the old grease to come out ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Ive seen a couple of big Buffalo blowers and a odd ball champion blower that had valves on the gearboxes, next time I’m over that way I’ll get some pictures, not really blacksmithing related but it did follow me home today, an older craftsman cast iron scroll saw with an old motor mounted on a cast iron stand, the guy that gave it to me is in his high 70s and it belonged to his father in law before that, im still researching to date it, the only exact match I found online they didn’t know their exact date either but placed it in the 1930s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 DHarris, that’s the max fill level valve, the one on my blower, identical to yours, is missing also and had been replaced with a bolt by my uncle when he was using it back in the 40’s. You should be able to find a replacement valve in one of the old style hardware stores where they have fittings for the older gas appliances. The old space heaters had valves like that also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Also keep an eye open when you go to the scrapyard, I've recovered several over the years. always handy to have a spare! I'd try a screw extractor to remove the piece left in. Hopefully it was well oiled at one time! Dax the cover of that type of blower usually has a "Fill with Oil till it comes out the petcock" sign on it; so some folks use oil in it. (I was really tempted to use the term "crankcase"!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dax Hewitt Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 That makes sense, I was assuming grease in the gearbox but oil makes much more sense. I think I was having a senior moment. Twisted Willow, nice looking saw you found there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Mail call: trying out a new kind of wire brush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Got a friend who has been welding up "yard art" and has been cutting off one of the ends of pickaxes. I'll be hauling a load of scrap to the scrapyard tomorrow and can have as many of the cut off pieces as I can find. I may have to make a set of hammer eye punches and drifts from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 My go-to hammer eye drift these days is just such a cut-off pick. A little straightening and a little softening of the edges, and it's served me very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USANewbie Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I went to the scrap yard today to sell some scrap. I ended up bringing home an 1/8"x4'x5' piece of plate steel. I got it for scrap price, the guy let me put it on the trailer before i went back over the scales, so basically i just traded it for scrap weight.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 On 10/24/2021 at 12:45 PM, Les L said: DHarris, that’s the max fill level valve, the one on my blower, identical to yours, is missing also and had been replaced with a bolt by my uncle when he was using it back in the 40’s. ::Snip:: On 10/25/2021 at 10:39 AM, ThomasPowers said: ::snip:: I'd try a screw extractor to remove the piece left in. Hopefully it was well oiled at one time! ::snip:: I think I will go with a wing bolt. Assuming I can remove the remaining piece, what are the odds the threads will match those of modern bolts? If not, which would be easier for a novice to tap: the remaining brass piece or the cast iron of the gear box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 That should be pipe thread (tapered) I would guess 1/8 or 1/4 NPT. I would just get a plug and put it in the hole. I would take and warm up the area around the broken off piece then spray with penetrating oil, giving it time to cool and penetrate, do it a couple times then try to back it out.the cast iron should be good, you may need to dress the threads, but I doubt it. I’ve taken a torch and blown steel bolts out of cast housings without hurting the threads. JHCC, those look similar to the elevator rail brushes I use a lot, I think you will enjoy them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stash Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 A buddy works at a beer distributor and set me up with a few goodies from his catch-all area in the back. Got a few kegs, a cart missing a wheel and some pallet racking. Looks like there is one more truck load to get. What I can’t repurpose I’ll scrap out and buy usable stock (or maybe beer). Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Had a brief visit to the scrapyard, sold around 1360 pounds of steel in from my friends "clean out the shop" mission; got US$68 of which my share was $30. I did buy 11 pounds of steel: Large stainless spoon for the flux bucket, drive chain, some nuts and bolts and another piece of all thread for the next anvil stand. (It's never there when you need it and you are kicking pieces out of the way when you don't!) Picked up another dome headed RR bolt as I plan to do a session on making dishing hammers from them next month. A few other pieces I don't remember also came home with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 My friend Ophei finally gave in to his wife about getting rid of a lot of his "collection". Some of you may have met him at Quad State. He doesn't smith, but he sees all the possibilities in what others call junk. He just gave me a really REALLY heavy truck spring that may end up as the face of an anvil. (I'm sorry, but "anvil shaped objects" once having been smitten to shape metal ARE anvils) and some plow points and a spring harrow and point. He also gave me some tree stands that were obviously repurposed from rebar and something that looks like easy outs, but I'm not sure what they are. I've cut off the rebar for billet handles or what ever. The points might be the better part. I haven't tested them yet. Does anyone recognize them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Some sort of reamer? Say Hi to Ophei for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 There has been a lot of mis-use of "Anvil Shaped Objects" lately. It does NOT apply to "improvised anvils"; but to the low grade cast iron anvils imported and sold cheaply---though now I am seeing them sold for much more lately---usually to people who don't know better! I owned one back around 1982 and when forging coil spring on it; the FACE would dent more than the spring would when the hot spring was hit with the hammer! I was around for the coining of the term ASO; please correct folks mis-using it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Unfortunately, Trenton Tye misused the term in one of his videos a few years back, using "ASO" and "Anvil-Shaped Object" to refer to what we call an "improvised anvil". Thomas, maybe you can get Adlai to take it up with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Perhaps Adlai could threaten him with Poi Latkes; a Kahunakkah Party entry for "best use of Poi" that definitely *wasn't*! (It's sort of a Tiki themed Hanukkah party, Adlai used to host. As I am a very light drinker; I, unfortunately, remember way too many of them!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Memories; one curse of being a light drinker. I know it well. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Now with camera phones it's possible to "share" the memories---or not; if the checks keep cashing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 SHHHHH! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Griffin Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Purple Bullet, those are cotton picker teeth for a combine. Be carefull. All the ones I ever saw look like they are plated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Randy - Thanks. I guess I have plenty of high carbon stuff to work with without messing with these. JHCC - I'll give Ophei your regards next time I see him. Thomas - OK. THAT I can see being an ASO. Thanks for the clarification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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