June 17, 20188 yr 12 minutes ago, Farmall said: if you wear out the threads on the first part of the vise, simply insert a bevel gear with. Shoulder to move the bad thread out. Might have to give that a try!
June 17, 20188 yr Not much followed us home since the trash compactor stopped any steel bin diving. Did pick up 2 old jack hammer bits for a dollar at the last BOA meeting. Then stopped by our steel supplier and got ten feet of 3/4 X 3 inch mild steel for dies that will be for the Smithing Magician Debi made.
June 18, 20188 yr Nice finds. I like the post vise and hooks Farmall. Here is that gauge thing. I'm guessing it's for steam or pipe fitting similar to another tool I had found before. I'm not sure. On the other side of the name it says malleable iron. It's starting to look like sculpture potential.
June 18, 20188 yr As soon as I saw the better photo, I knew it wasn't a two hole pin. I googled the company name and found an old catalogue. I honestly didn't know what it was until I looked it up but dang it, I had to know. Not a lot of tools that I don't know at least what it's used for, so I had to find that one out.
June 19, 20188 yr Wow! Not bad! May want to use a power hammer instead in these days... ? Bests: Gergely
June 19, 20188 yr If got bronze, bronze, bronze –about 110lbs. Exchange it for 60lbs pure lead and a delicious crat of Belgium beer. No idea how to get it in my A5 /16lbs crucible!? (smashing with the sledge hammer/cutting in suitable pieces with the grinder?? –with all the loss of grinding dust) Help ………………..
June 19, 20188 yr Sledgehammer looks like a good option. Score with a cold chisel first, to get the break started where you want it to come apart. Do you have a portable bandsaw? That would work well, too.
June 19, 20188 yr Unfortunately I don’t play any other ‘instrument’ except the angle grinder. First intention was to cover the pump blades with an old towel resting on an steel/stone plate and beat on it.
June 19, 20188 yr Put them in some heavy feed sacks and let the neighborhood kids go to town on them with hammers lol.
June 19, 20188 yr Unfortunately also a chronic shortcoming of detached neighborhood children. Only neighbors of old age who sometimes themselves are too weak to push their rollator. LOL Have to do the job by my one and use Iron woodrows sledge hammer or toes
June 19, 20188 yr Well then maybe score it with a cut off wheel then hammer. A feed sack will be better then just a towel. But a towel is better then nothing.
June 19, 20188 yr Will try to create a sack from thick towels (asking Diana to sewing one - ..............she hate it) Btw everything as desired with your heir and beautiful daughter?
June 19, 20188 yr Author Wrap bottom and sides in a blanket to contain the shards, use the towel or something thin for the impact area of the hammer so as not to cushion the blow. Rather than trying to break it in half, consider, score and break to control the break direction and the chip size. Position the chip so it is unsupported with a fulcrum on the other side of the score line.
June 19, 20188 yr Very nice to hear Das, I wish she have an even prosperous future as Lisa (15), my daughter and precious eye apple. Lisa went to secondary art school after school holidays. After discovering ‘dyscalculic’ (like here father) she goes for arts and crafts. So she will never become a smart calculating business-woman but hopefully a creative soul with here foots on the ground (wish she mets jlp some day). Regards, ‘Der’ Hans
June 19, 20188 yr 33 minutes ago, Glenn said: Rather than trying to break it in half, consider, score and break to control the break direction and the chip size. Position the chip so it is unsupported with a fulcrum on the other side of the score line. In other words, (1) score it where you want it to break, (2) flip it over and support it somewhere other than where you want it to break, and (3) hit it on the back side of where you want it to break, thus:
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