BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Drill shank. I got a few from a PG&E auction along with a mess of jackhammer bits when my Dad and I were starting out. Most hex stock is more than mild steel, as it is used for things like PTO shafting and needs to be tough. May not get super hard, but tough. I wouldn't worry about the springs for gigs. Just use one of the unbroken ones. I wonder if it is the rust that causes them to break. Out West I have only seen a couple of broken leaf springs, more simply bent, but hear about far more back East. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 they come off these repurposed Isuzu diesel delivery trucks that have been turned into trash trucks, and they run down dirt roads all day long every day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Wrought Iron generally sparks a lot like cast iron; not like that at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Here’s a picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 HC alright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 That’s kinda what I thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 No photo, but a nice mail call today: from eBay, a nice heat gun for softening chaser’s pitch, and from IFI member Chad J., a pair of deer shinbones and an unexpected bottle opener. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J. Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 I couldn't resist adding the church key. Enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 And thank you for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 4 minutes ago, JHCC said: a pair of deer shinbones and an unexpected bottle opened. Mr Grammar Hammer, you confused me for a minute till Mr Chad said church key lol, I thought he mailed you a bottle that someone done sampled?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Typo: “opened” should have been “opener”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Lol, well I done Got that figured that out now! but a few minutes ago I was scratching my head, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Along with pictures, or it didn't happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Mr, Randy come on! Wouldn’t you believe if I told you I hand forged a cannon over one weekend without pictures? okay im jokin y’all! don’t answer that! Lol JHCC/ Chad, I believe y’all! im just pickin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 24 minutes ago, Irondragon ForgeClay Works said: Along with pictures, or it didn't happen. Fine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 There it be! now you can soften up your gooey stuff cook a pot of beans and pop a top on a cold one all at once! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Your piece of hollow hex stock is most likely not a gun barrel. In all my years of messing with antique and modern guns, I have never seen a hex barrel, they are always octagon except for one that I saw that was 12 sided. Also, gun barrels are typically not high carbon. I vote for some kind of drive shaft for farm equipment or something similar where the shaft needed to change length during use as it slid in and out of a hex socket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Thanks for the idea Gazz, I don’t believe it’s a gun barrel, it was 14 foot long, I doubt it was a pto drive shaft either being that long, not saying it couldn’t exist but personally I’ve never seen a brush hog or a hay baler or any other pto driven equipment with a 14 foot pto shaft! I think Thomas is probably right at it being drill stem, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Perhaps a PTWO: a power take waaaaaaaaaaay off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Bullet Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Thomas is correct (as usual) only the term as I recall is "Kelly joint". Some are square and some hexagonal, but they are used to transmit the twisting motion from the turntable to the drill pipe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 At that size it looks more to be one used by a steam or compressed air drill to drill shot holes rather than on a drilling rig to drill for oil or water. I work at what once was called "the NM school of mines" and they still have a drilling contest during 49'ers week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Thomas, would a "shot hole" be the hole they drill for the explosives? That is what i assume, but we all knows what happens when you assume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Yes. Hard rock mining is generally done using explosives. The University here is known for their "Energetic Materials Research and Training" group. Their expertise came in handy during WWII and now they do a lot of "First Responder" training as well. The whole town is pretty laid back over hearing BOOMs come from the test pads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 The wonderful rock drill / man drill / Mandril sculpture by Jacob Epstein used hollow hex bits I think. Would that be the sort of machine you mean Thomas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 I concur, that's a stick of drill rod/stem. In use they're 20' long, coupler type depends on manufacturer. Kelly bars aren't hollow and are usually square. Hex drill stem helps prevent cuttings getting jammed between the rod and hole. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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