Here is a pick witha handle I paid $10.00 for and the other 2 picks I paid $10 for both of them the shoe tool is sprang loaded I`am going to make tongs from them , the monkey wrenchs ARE like NEW I paid $12.00 for both the guy wanted $8.00 each though. hammerkid Gallery - Blacksmith Photo Gallery

the shoe tool as you called it, is to stretch shoes for bunyans on the feet, better spark test it as its probably casti iron.

The shoe tool (bunion strecher), may be cast iron and so not forgeable into tongs.

Test it with a grinder and look for the spark pattern!

What are you going to do with the picks? Looks like work to me!

the ball and ring or bunion stretcher i believe are cast,at least the ones i use in my shoe repair shop are.

i brought home a old king pin from a flat bed, any body have an idea of the common king pin steel. it must be some type of severe ware type steel

I just happened to be in the electrical supply store asking about a 20 amp breaker for the shop when before you could say "NO WAY" two 36 inch diameter and one 48 inch diameter wooden spools jumped into the back of my truck !!

Being as how they roll around a lot, I had to use 12 wooden pallets to lock them into place so they would not jump out before I got them home.

Well, that solves the problem of what to do for a work table beside the forge (grin). Couple of pallets on the floor to raise the spool to the right height, put the spool on top, and you have a table with a shelf underneath.

The reason for 3 spools, it is spring and the wife will surely want an outside table to work on, a place to put seeds into starter trays etc. You gotta plan ahead.

Glenn

If you remove the ends of those spools, they also make excellent bases for top heavy equipment. See the attached pic of my 20 inch bandsaw. There is also one in the background of the pic mounted to an old metal table frame as a workbench top to with my Beverly shear attached.

Had this chunk follow me home the other day. Solid 52100 6.25 dia 33 inches long. Lots of knife blades there....

Blasphemy! that's not a knife, that's an incredible anvil! stand it on end and you're golden !

BT, great idea, Thanks

Those long bolts that hold those big spools together make great, cheap round stock, also.

Already got a 200lb post anvil and a 250lb fisher. I picked up a piece of 4.5 dia yesterday. Will be steel stash material.

Would be better slabbed as knife material and use a medium carbon steel for the anvil!

Do you know what they were using 52100 at that size for?

It was a major forging shop. They supposedly had some heavy drop forges and used the 52100 for dies etc. The white tag on the end of the bar is the orig mfg sticker with the atsme and 52100 printed on it. I about messed my pants when i saw the bin of this stuff. The bigger stuff was marked and I am getting some of the smaller stuff (4.5") tested. It hardened up just fine. Just want to make sure what it is.

Slabbing in process.

Here's another piece that followed me home a few weeks ago. it is 1018 but has a really nice rebound. Face is 4x10, 24 inches high weighs 200lbs. Using it for finishing bevels.

5 donuts followed me home this evening.

The two outside ones on the top row are 15 inches diameter and 3/4 inches thick, the middle one 13 inches diameter. The bottom row about 15 inches or so diameter.

They used to be fly wheels from truck engines in a former life, but now they are waiting for their purpose in life to be redefined and renamed. (grin)

don't want to rain on your parade, but they are not flywheels, look like clutch pressure plates, probably cast iron.

3/4 inch thick, thanks for the correction Jr.
Was going to use them as ballast for vise stands, hammer stands etc., but who knows.

I spark tested the shoe stretcher today its Cast :(

you got a clinker picker outer now. LOL

yep reckon i do lol

Glen might make tooling for a flypress, I need to press a plate out of sheet Ti and something like that with the inner lip rounded might maker the bottom die. The top die would need to be a flat piece with a raised center circle the thickness of the lower die minus the thickness of the Ti---with a relieved outer lip...

This is to help finish off my Ti eating set for the SWABA meeting potlucks; I've forged the knife, forl, spoon and now I need to do the plate and the cup.

and I am sad to say that you generally make me ashamed of myself. I scrap part time and collect full time. This along with running a restaurant/bar fulltime finds lots of tools and misc iron in my shop and yard at all times. There were very few items on the last 75 pages that are not laying around rusting at my home. I am unable to scrap anything that I personally think has potential and thus the yard full. Google "185 pinetree rd 98596" on google earth and you will see some of what I am talking about. Good luck to all on the hunt.

Chuck,

Some folks have all the luck. You have a steel mecca next door. What some of us wouldn't give for a slice of that steel. Of course, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! We expect to see pix of those blades form that fantastic score!!!

Slobbering, whimpering and shouting...GO CHUCK GO! -Phil

PS - Hey, maybe you could donate a few of those slices up on the auction? You know, stuff that would fit in a flat rate priority mail box. Maybe some 5160 too, or a basic pattern-weld selection? I'd bid on stuff like that. It's for good causes: IFI's, fellow craftsmen, etc. Just an idea, hint, hint, wink, wink.

I'll have to keep that in mind. I will be picking some more of the 52100 up and may just do that. Shipped out 54 lbs in a flat rate box last week. Post Office had some explatives about that one.