Frosty Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 Ayup, it's the same dimensional rift sockets disappear into when you're working on a car, though that one releases them when you're finished with the work. I have a 10' tape measure with a leash I clip to a belt loop. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 Ahhh, just attach an AirTag to everything you own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 Funny enough a battery powered Milwaukee 1/4" riveter I bought has a locator and an app to find it. Not like it ever leaves work. Tape measurers do frequently hide or transcend time and space to different places. Cant say how many little screws and custom made parts I've zinged into a different dimension while trying to clean them up on the wire wheel. My tools at work are very disciplined. At most I might misplace one rarely here and there but I just have to retrace my steps to find them. Things at my home shop tend to disappear more often. Some tools it pays to paint bright colors so they stand out against the grey and brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 I need to get out or something I was sitting here imagining a riveter with a locator and about to ask what kind of rivets needed a special way to locate them. Painting them is also a good way to inhibit leg growth. Quite a while ago I was having to hunt an alignment bunch every time I turned around even when I made special not of where I set it. So I painted it fluorescent international orange. So of course I'm hunting all over the place for it before doing the "pretend I just finished using it and set it down" trick. VOILA there it was snuggly nestled with a half dozen international orange tools. <sigh> The other dimension will not be denied. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 2 hours ago, Scott NC said: Ahhh, just attach an AirTag to everything you own. I'm thinking about attaching one to Oakley's collar, if I ever find it. He likes to run the woods and harass the squirrel's. Yesterday he came home without his collar. I spent most of today looking for it to no avail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 My mom loses her purse from time to time so they can be a good thing. She's getting on in years. I lost my false teeth once and that cost me.... I bet a chip for them isn't far down the road..... Better living through AI..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim695 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 On 6/3/2023 at 7:09 PM, George N. M. said: Actully, tape measures, along with socks, translate themselves to a higher astral plane and then randomly return through rifts in the space/time continuum. The time, as percieved here, of the round trip journey is random as is the locus of where they return. It could be moments or it could be years. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." Don't forget screws George. the fall and the floor and magically teleport to the other realm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 Someone posted on the local FB freecycle group that they were putting out some scrap metal, so I naturally went by. No forgeable stock, but a nice little oil can. One man’s trash…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 Those "click,click oil cans are great, so many of the trigger pump cans just don't keep on working while the click click cans always deliver the oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 Oooh, it's ben a long time since I used an old tick tock oil can. Nice score John! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.J.Lampert Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 at least the tape measure comes back the 10mm socket always likes it elsewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shainarue Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 Had a nice visit with a friend in Peavine Oklahoma and came home with this perfect blower for my newly built forge table. Also not pictured: a treadle hammer which I need to pour some concrete for and reassemble, and a bunch of scrap steel good for tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 SWEET SCORE Shaina! You have the blower on the wrong side of your forge. You don't really want to stand behind the forge while you crank the blower do you? It'd be easy to rotate it so the crank is facing the front and adjust the handle length so you don't bang your fingers on the forge. However if you're right handed Thomas Powers made a strong argument for having the blower crank on your dominant / hammer hand side. You'll be manipulating the work with tongs and fire tools with your off hand and only need your dominant hand to swing the hammer so while your work is in the fire your dominant hand is freest to turn the crank. Make sense? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shainarue Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 I have the blower exactly where it works for me. I didn't realize there was a wrong side, lol This is the same way my rivet was oriented and I never had an issue in the past year of regular use. Crank with left hand, piddle with fire with right hand when needed. I rarely had to do both at the same time anyway other than when forge welding. Also, I don't stand next to the handle while cranking. I can reach it and easily crank while still standing at the corner of the table. And the counterweight on the handle will keep it going at least a full rotation after I let go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 No right or wrong way, other than what works for you. I used to have my blower mounted like yours but after Thomas stated his reasoning for putting it on the dominant hand side I tried and liked it a lot better. I had to unscrew the air grate and rotate it 180* to mount the blower on y right side or lose use of the back wind shield. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 14 hours ago, Scott NC said: I lost my false teeth once and that cost me.. Imagine how the person that found them felt. I have a little collection of oil cans John. Nice find. Nice looking blower Shainarue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 If it works, it’s the right way. It doesn’t, it’s the wrong way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 2 hours ago, Daswulf said: Imagine how the person that found them felt. I hope a metal artist found them and used them in a sculpture... I have a teeny tiny oil can like that in my oddities shelf. Must have been for sewing machines or similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 I've really wanted to combine metal and skuls and bone to make sort of unorthodox taxadermy kind of like dr seuss but different. I know it has been done but I still would like to give it a try. Those false chompers would be neat in a sculpture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 I stumbled onto a sculpture on google images once that used false teeth. It was rather bizzare and funny at the same time. Mixed media.... I saved it, I'll see if I can fing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 Quick action on a freecycle post got me a couple of propane tanks from a guy whose grill had given up the ghost. They’re out of certification, but they’ve still got a little gas, and I can try exchanging them at Airgas once that’s used up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 If nothing else you got a deal on the propane. Air Liquide exchanges for out of cert and damaged tanks to get them out of circulation. You should be good. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 Airgas is a subsidiary of Air Liquide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 They could also be used for a gas forge, charcoal grill, tool box, sculptural element, stool, musical instrument or other useful repurposed item. The steel does have some carbon in it and I have always meant to try hardening a piece. Just be sure to get ALL the gas out before cutting into them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 The last time I decommissioned one of these tanks, I left the valve open for a couple of days before removing it, rinsed the tank out with hot soapy water, rinsed again with diluted chlorine bleach, and let dry. Worked beautifully, with neither explosion nor smell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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