Bigred1o1 Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 the other option is to see if there are any museums that want them i know a few years back the maritime museum in Vermont had a crate full of them they were "fixing" that some guy found hidden in his pond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Nice score btw sam, im jealous :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmless Dave Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Pick this shear up at our NCABANA 1st qtr meeting at Big Blu in Morganton. I was in out MINI Cooper and had to have a friend trailer it home. Estimated weight about 450# - a little too big for the MINI. After a clean up and painting is now looks acceptable for Green Bear Forge. Price was about 1/2 to 1/3 of the ones on eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Trimming your toenails must be murder! Looks great, have you tried it out yet? I've found a good shear is so much faster and *quieter* than a lot of ways of cutting stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmless Dave Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Yes, it works great. Much faster than hacksaw-ing and quieter also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Nice score Sam, have you tried it out? What are you going to use for dies or maybe I should ask what are you going to use it for? Do be careful those are dangerous things. Dad had me running his 12ton punch press before I was 10 and I have one really ugly experience when one of Dad's employees made a mistake. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Emig Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Latest thing that followed me home is a Reid 1920 surface grinder with a 5x10 magnetic chuck (225 bucks) the chuck is worth 700 alone. When I was picking it up the guy asked me if I knew anyone who needed morse taper drill bits #2&3. He then brings out 3 bins full-about 200 or so drill bits and says 100 bucks and they're yours. Got them home-biggest is a 2-1/2" drill (565 bucks at MSC). Went through about 3/4 so far-NO DOUBLES. Probably 3 grand worth of bits. Some still new with the wax on the end. SCORE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 On the cannon ball. Hawthorne NV has an ordnance museum. Hawthorne has been a bomb making, and disassembly center for decades. They may be interested in it, if it is indeed an old cannon ball. Hey Sam, nice tractor paint job ( everything gets painted) on the press ; ) I used to make die sets when I had my shop. If you check around you should be able to find numerous used die sets that you can strip down. I used Danly die sets for my customer's projects, and I used to see tons of them at auctions go really inexpensively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Found a cast steel hammer head that looked like it may have been for copper or maybe auto body work. Both ends were rectangles but now one is half round. Should be good for forging copper wire and brass rod. I put one of my fifty cent handles on my fifty cent hammer head. Nice looking hammer for a dollar and a couple hours of work. I love yard sales :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elemental Metal Creations Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Hauled a small load of scrap to the yard today and left with less money than I had when I got there! He had an Armitage Mouse Hole anvil with the tail broke off at the hardy hole for $110. It came home with me.I can make out the name and the weight1.0.26 (138lb) and it looks like a date is stamped on it above the weight stamp (1886?). Did they stamp the date on the anvil also? None of the pic's I have seen show this. I will try to get better pic's after I clean it up more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshua.M Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Hauled a small load of scrap to the yard today and left with less money than I had when I got there! He had an Armitage Mouse Hole anvil with the tail broke off at the hardy hole for $110. It came home with me.I can make out the name and the weight1.0.26 (138lb) and it looks like a date is stamped on it above the weight stamp (1886?). Did they stamp the date on the anvil also? None of the pic's I have seen show this. I will try to get better pic's after I clean it up more. are you sure it's a mousehole? it looks alot like a william foster to me, they stamped the date on their anvils Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Trez Cole Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 or an Alsop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elemental Metal Creations Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Cleaned it some more and it definatly says armitage mouse hole forge.I can't make out all the letters but enough to be sure of the maker. What I thought was a date was the word forge. Any idea idea on am age for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Nice find even if it is a little bob tailed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 A local guy advertised these on craigslist for 600.00 each, way to rich for my blood, but after 2 price reductions, I called him, and we swung a sweet deal, 2 foot presses and a screw press (flypress). The flypress has no bottom assembly, but the guy I bought it from is a machinist and will work out the tooling jig for me if I give him a basic idea of what I want. I will be selling at least one foot press and likely the fly press as well, feel free to contact me if you get a bug and have too much cash handy!! Prior to seeing these, I had never seen a footpress before! Very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve McCarthy Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 I made a trip to the scrape yard today. Haven't been in about 3 months. It was rainy and cold, and after about 1/2 an hour wondering around I was on my way out empty handed. Then I made one last look at a pile about 2 foot deep and saw the words "Acorn Iron & Supply". A little bit of digging by hand and then the help of a forklift revieled a perfect 4x4 Acorn table. The scrape yard guys thought it was a grate cover for a manhole. 980lbs at scrape price was a pretty good buy. Not sure if I'll build a stand and set it up or try to sell it. Anyhow, it's mine now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkrankow Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 I would be surprised if acorn tables have never been used as a sewer grate before! Good score. Better to save a good tool. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayden H Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Any value of an medium size edwards shear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke March Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Well, yesterday I came home with two welders - for free! :) First, an oxyacetylene setup, and lots of clamps, with oxygen and acetylene still in the tanks: Second, a lincoln arc welder/generator: There's a pack of 6013 rods, and those really long rods you see - some have a white coating and the others have a salmon colored coating - does anyone know what they are? There's no marking on them or the box that I can see. There's also a package of "silver brazing alloy" rods which I assume are for the torch. Both welders belonged to my grandpa - he bought them in '83 (I got the paperwork with them, still had the original receipts!) Apparently, they've hardly ever been used. He gave them to my uncle, who never used them, other than starting the generator every year to keep it in good shape. Since my uncle didn't need them, he thought I might want them - and I did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkrankow Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 The really long rods should be brass filler for brazing with the O/A kit. Nice score. I am a bit envious here. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudbugone Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Very Sweet deal.... that's a lot of money involved. The gas bottles alone are a couple hundred bucks each and that's a really nice Lincoln too. Mine's a twin cylinder onan 225 and it's DC ,but I think yours might be more usable being AC especially since the power outlets are AC too. Probably enough power to use a smaller wire welder off of it and maybe even a plasma cutter,but for sure any power tools.. Keep the Lincoln out of the weather and it'll last a lifetime. Buy your Uncle & his wife dinner out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 For some reason my local scrapyard consider this sub-grade steel and charged me accordingly. I didn't argue with them. The press frame in the back was slightly more expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elemental Metal Creations Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 I have never heard of a scrap yard charging less for sheet metal, only paying less. Good find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Good stuff that shelving Jaques, Anything thinner than 1.5mm and/or wire is considdered sub-grade and the smelters Scaw & Mittal will only take if baled so you did them a favour :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazeyladyfarms Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 I was out hunting rabbits this last winter and came up on an old shed I looked around in side and found an old forge talked the land owner he said it was his fathers and I asked if he would sale it. and after we went to shed and looked it over, the bottom was gone and the blower froze I could hall the junk home. well the price was right and with a disk blade in for a bottom and the blower took apart and cleaned it works not a bad day of hunting :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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