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Hi Justin, There's nothing like it in ''Pounding Out The Profits''. What's your location?
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Sweet!
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I made a new post in my Buldoze Bender thread;http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/20235-bulldoze-bender/?view=getnewpost I started a new topic w/a link so it would show on new content....... :)
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A few final touches...I built a lil' tweaker attachment(s) to do small stuff; the piece in the pics is 7/16 rd. The static piece that has the two 5/8'' rounds welded to it for the bending form can be turned 180* and have a different form welded to it in the future.
Since this attachment covers the small stuff I'm thinkin' I just might put my Diacro #3 on the block.....Great tool, but I wouldn't miss walking around it's 3 foot handle.
Two new outboard form pin holders are shown as well.
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About what would those pieces of 4140 cost if bought new?
Mcmaster Carr's current price at roughly $5.70 per pound my two pieces weighing 50 lbs would have cost $285. If I'd had the two pcs cut from plate (which they were) they would of course been less PP than finished barstock but still pretty spendy........Scrounging pays...... ;)
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Here's some ideas.....https://www.google.com/search?q=metal+pig+sculpture&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ZYBfUZ_0MYfxiwLV_oHAAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CE4QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=850
Never done a pig, layers of riveted plate like a topo map might work.........
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Macbruce,
I'll give you 50 bucks so you can make 100% profit.... We all have great finds because we see value in anything iron.... I would be ashamed to tell you what I paid for the Champion power hammer I found and bought on April 1... Listed as yet another power hammer... Lets just say I came home with most of the money I took... They should put us on TV as BLACKSMITH PICKERS...
Have a great day,
Jim
Funny how those nimrods on TV NEVER find any BS stuff. You know they've come across good stuff, how could they not? Either they're very uninformed or they're stupid. You and me Bro, I'd like nothing better than to travel about the country(s) in a Mercedes van looking for you know what... B)
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I love it when I go to the scrap yard an stuff is MARKED. Two pcs of 4140, 2.5 x 4.25 x 8.5'' for $25.....PH dies..... B)
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If you are wedded to the sole operation by hand power then you will need to focus on items that can be made easily and quickly by those methods and start saving for your retirement as it's fairly easy to wear out your body fairly young doing so---my smithing ancestors typically died in their 50's while their wives lived into their 90's
A friend of mine, Steve Rollert asked Francis Whitaker around in1999, "What advice would you give to a younger smith just starting out?'' and his answer was ''Learn to use power tools to their full advantage.'' Francis was in allot of pain and discomfort with a brace on his hammer arm in his later years from over a half a century of pounding. He did have a 25 LG but I think he did more work by hand, especially when he was young (I know I did) than he had to....''Nobody stays young forever''.
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Greetings DK,
. We all can accomplish the same result on the anvil or with hand tools it just takes longer...
Jim
No way. When the scale of the work gets beyond a certain point it becomes impossible to work by hand. Like say Michael Dillon's ''Aileron'', you could make an exact maquette of this sculpture by hand but no one on the planet can forge a 4''x4'' billet by hand. Digging ditches with spoons is stock removal. Possible yes, but not practial.
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Mine is made of metal and concrete. 2x the weight of the anvil.........It never moves a MM when I'm working on it but when I want to move it about it's no problem on my concrete floor....it works for me.
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Well one thing I would recommend is mounting the spring on the clutch arm. Have the spring pulling the arm straight back. Having the spring mounted on the treadle and pushing up through all the linkage is a poor design. I do not know why little giants were originally set up this way. I mounted my spring on the clutch arm pulling down. I have a center clutch model. I welded a bar off the clutch arm and have a spring pulling straight down rotating the arm and pulling the clutch away. The clutch action on my hammer is much more smooth now.
I couldn't agree more. When I rebuilt this 25 last year I got to thinkin' how lame the original hook up is so I decided to re configure it as you described here.....I just makes more sense.
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Why are they breaking and where? Maybe the rod diameter is too small for the job of there's too much deflection or both.......They use ''pretty good steel'' in air cyl rods a reason so I doubt using mild steel will solve your problem.
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Why are they breaking and where? Maybe the rod diameter is too small for the job of there's too much deflection or both.......They use ''pretty good steel'' in air cyl rods a reason so I doubt using mild steel will solve your problem.
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If the other parts are worthy of a makeover I'd look into a Japanese style frame.....You could maybe even cut the anvil free and use it. The angle of the dies could be a problem, or not......
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I'll be back.... :ph34r:
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Thanks...mb
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This was in amongst some lathe tooling I got. Wazit for?
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Generous offer, Bruce. Might take you up on that. I haven't gone into the spring box yet but it's looking like one screw is tensioned more than the other. I'm starting to be amazed at the adjustability they built into these things.
Back around 1980 I got a nice little 50# Beau for $500 I think but it had been outside for a long time. Getting the adjuster nuts out was hard and there was no way I could just pop em back in and use em so chasing the threads with a tap was my only option.......Yeesh, a new 3 x 10 tpi was big bucks and I was desperate......I went back to the same yard I bought the hammer at(man do I miss that place) and started rooting through bins of old tooling and bingo! Got it for $1.50 a pound, that has to rate one of the best days scrounging I ever had..... :D .....I've only used it once and I've eyed it a time or two thinking if I squished it , it would make a cool looking bowl......Available to anyone for shipping to and fro......
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I vote Hay Budden
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These look modern and are made in Italy I believe, other than that I know nothing else about them......
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FYI I have the correct tap for chasing the arm tensioner threads if you need one. It's 3'' x 10 tpi
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German Trenton that looks like it was beat with a pick axe...
I kinda wonder about this one....Is it soft? Looks like some moron used it for an OA cutting table and possibly used it as a heating platform as well. If it's still hard why not mill/grind the surface?
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I have used bee venom therapy on my shoulders and the results were positive. It lasted longer than the cortizone shots and one 'injection' wasn't any worse than the other imo.......If you're alergic to bees forget about it or find out for sure because anaphylaxis shock can kill you.
There are many BVT products offered on the internet including pills of pure venom for those who don't want to 'harvest' their own or for winter use...
Little Giant KDS dies
in Power Hammers, Treadle Hammers, Olivers
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KDS? .........Looks like an improvement to me over strictly dovetails. It's nice to be able to fab your own dies in short order w/o a mill or shaper imho.... B)