ThomasPowers Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Very quiet Christmas. My major "gift" was a lunch with friends at their house. Posole and pork loin; home made shortcake, caroling around the table...hot mulled cider. Pain was NOT a flavor involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Thomas, that’s a gift that’s hard to beat. Happy holidays and I wish I was close enough to come by and visit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.J.Lampert Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Les L, that is a nice stamp Thomas, wonderful to hear you are back were you should be was given this beauty by my mother, it used to belong to a close familly friend who passed away a few years back M.J.Lampert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 MJ, Classy. I have always like hunter case pocket watches. Now you need a vest with a watch pocket. Or use the little pocket on the right side of your jeans for what it was originally designed. Happy Boxing Day and Happy New Year. GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 I always wondered what that little pocket was there for. It's odd they still put them on there as it must cost money and I wonder if anyone ever uses them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 MJ, that’s a nice watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Hey now!! that’s a pretty slick lookin time piece!!! MJ! Santa brought me a couple things a Mr volcano forge a Picard embossing hammer and a hammer eye punch the hammer eye punch has a ruff grinding from the factory so imma need to clean it up a little but I can’t wait to try em out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Stopped by the industrial surplus place a couple of days ago and picked up some stuff I had on hold: a couple of pairs of leather gloves and some bars of O-1. Not sure yet if I’m going keep this stuff or sell/trade it. (Not shown: a couple of cases of XL vinyl exam gloves that should be good for wet-sanding and the like. I’m keeping those.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 For some reason this page hasn’t shown up for me for a few days, I guess it froze up the same as every thing else the last week. I signed out, then back in and everything seems to be working right now. Billy, that’s some nice looking tools, who made the hammer eye punch? John, that’s a nice haul, but the mention of the exam gloves bring back a lot of bad memories, thanks for not showing them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Thanks Les the hammer eye punch is made by some company called Bonbo, it came from amazon, it’s not quite as nice a quality as the German made Picard tools but I think with a little cleaning up it will make a nice tool! 4 hours ago, JHCC said: some bars of O-1 I never heard tell of that one, of course until Thomas started explaining I never understood what 1018 an 4030 an all those others was either lol is O1 some kinda fancy alloy or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 It’s an oil-hardening tool steel, sometimes used in knifemaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Also picked up a set of bed rails someone had put out in the trash. Time to make some more tongs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swedefiddle Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 O-1 is Oil Hardening, W-1 is Water Hardening, S-7 (for Shock applications) is Air Hardening, H-13 (for Hot Punches/work) is Air Hardening. Follow the Heat Treating in the Machinery Handbook (or something similar). Steel is Vegetable Soup!! Different Soup is made by adding different Vegetables. The same as Steel. Happy New Year, Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Brouwers Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 John, how do you make tongs from bed rails? Can you show us a picture of the final product? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 13 hours ago, swedefiddle said: O-1 is Oil Hardening, W-1 is Water Hardening, S-7 (for Shock applications) is Air Hardening, H-13 (for Hot Punches/work) is Air Hardening. Follow the Heat Treating in the Machinery Handbook (or something similar). Steel is Vegetable Soup!! Different Soup is made by adding different Vegetables. The same as Steel. Happy New Year, Neil And I am always amazed at how steel can be recycled over and over again. In many cases in to soup cans, the pot to heat the soup, the burner eye and stove to cook the soup and the spoon to eat the soup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 37 minutes ago, Will Brouwers said: John, how do you make tongs from bed rails? Can you show us a picture of the final product? I’m planning to make a video of the updated process, but here’s the thread from the first pair of these I made: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Brouwers Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Cool! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Mail man just ran, he walked up to the gate an handed me a box an said “I dunno whatcha got in there but it’s heavy” lol a surprise from a member here on the forum, I’ll let them speak up if they want too, its big ol heavy duty bowl swage!!! thank you very much!!!! Imma have to try it out a make a yarn bowl for Ash!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Billy it looks like you have some fun projects in the future. I’m glad you like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Mail call... Joint Christmas present to us from Santa at Beaumont Metals. For our KMG 2X72 belt grinder, extra tool arm, 2 inch contact wheel and 8 inch contact wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 A neighbor was giving away a pair of jack stands. Also about twenty pounds of mixed nails, screws, nuts, bolts, and washers (not shown). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Brouwers Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Man! I wish I had those kind of neighbors, the only fun things I have gotten from them are retrieved from the dumpsters... Which brings up a question, one that I asked in an official thread, but here there is real application. If I received 20 lbs. of hardware, I wouldn't know what to do with it. Scrap it, keep it, scrap half, sort it all out? So, to put you on the spot John, what are you going to do with it? (Sorry to put you on the spot, just a curious "treasure collector" asking out of curiosity.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Don't you have a junk drawer filled with screws, nails, wire, old springs hardware, etc? I've had one all my life, it's one of the first things I started when I moved out on my own, learned it from the folks who learned it from theirs and probably back to the missing link. How can anybody civilized person do without a junk drawer. A kitchen without a 20lb. capacity junk drawer is . . . Nevermind! <sniff> I recall seeing a spot on a show, maybe the news a few years ago who "invented" a screw, nail, etc. sorting machine, a version sorted nuts. It was basically slotted table on a slant that vibrated as screws, nails, etc. slid down it they dropped in slots according to dia. Sorting by length was as simple as setting the slotted sheet on stands of various lengths and longer fasteners poked up to be picked up with a magnet. It cut down his sorting to wood, metal, machine etc. screws. Nails were a done deal when he cleaned them off the magnet. Sadly his patent was rejected as versions had been in use for hundreds of years anyway. Probably scored him a job offer though. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 I commend for your consideration The Kitchen Junk Drawer by Michael Longcor. I have heard him comment, "I don't have a kitchen junk drawer, I have a garage!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 The nails and screws are mostly sorted already, so it’s just a matter of the nuts and bolts. I’m planning an expansion of my hardware organizer, so this gives me a bit more incentive to sort them together with the others I already have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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