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    Doesn't look like much now as it has stood outside for a couple of years but the boys had hours of fun out of it not to mention learning to weld. All scrap off the skip so no material cost other than welding consumables.
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    Cheers norseman. Post up some pics of your stove when you get it made. I put one together from scrap with my lads a couple of years ago to teach them to weld. They now have it in their "fort" and brew up all manner of stuff on the top. Only word of warning- be careful when you cut the gas bottle. I thought i had been....took the valve out, washed out with hot soapy water, let the hose run through, left it half full of water when i started to cut and it still went with a thump..... Must say it fairly shook me up.....but after a change of boxers and a cup of tea with extra sugar i coul
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    +1
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    Cheers .338winmag. Most everything i do is turning junk into useful things. Keeps the cost low and the enjoyment high! They say "one mans junk is another mans treasure".
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    Good job TC. Nice set up you made there, interesting to see how it's done.
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    Think it was Sir Issac Newton ??? or maybe Einstein with his e=mc2??? said "every action has an equal and opposite reaction". So as Biglurks says whatever volume of air it is sucking in it has to blow out. As rodp notes some hoovers actually have a connection if you take the filter cover or dust bag cover off that will take the same hose that fits into the suck side. This one from memory and the pic i just remover the filter on the blow out side, screwed a piece of plywood across it, drilled two 2" ish holes with a hole saw, cut off the connection for the hose on the suck side and stuck i
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    Cheers Gin, just an amateur myself compared to others on here but my idea seems to have struck a cord of interest. Midnight knows his stuff when it comes to knives and has been a great help sharing info, top bloke!
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    That's a bag ordered. Away for a long weekend so hopefully i will have it by the time i get back and get the blade finished the following weekend.
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    Is the stuff or do you have a better link? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ferric-Chloride-etching-copper-zinc-steel-pcb-etchant-iron-III-chloride-/251379398378?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item3a876136ea
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    Yep think that sounds like a good plan. What acid do you use midnight? Last one i just used sulfuric battery acid because that is what i had but that soaked for 8-9hrs to get the effect.
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    :laugh: Plenty of old hoover on the recycling skip, most still work, filters just bunged up and they get chucked. Blow the filters out with an air line and they are good to go. Could pick up half a dozen any day i wanted.
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    Cheers Lee. Just burn whatever coal is in the coal bunker, sneak it out when my mrs isn't looking The more expensive better quality coal seems to work best rather than the cheapest bag you can find. Just put a handful of shavings and a couple of sticks, light it, tip a 1/4 bucket of coal on top. Start up the blower let it burn for 10miniutes or so to burn off all the smokey stuff (top picture is at the burning off stage). At this stage switch off the blower and give the coals a good battering with the tongs or something hard to brake up the coals into small chunks, blower back on for a couple
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    Knife makers- any suggestions on what finish i should put on the blade? Could do acid dip but not a lot of carbon in sight so although i like the contrast not a lot would show. So thinking either a brushed stainless steel look (scotch bright wheel) or just a high gloss (cloth wheel & buffing compound).
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    :laugh:
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    Not sure about a guard on the blade, kind of designed it so the back end of the blade would act as a guard, find they get in the way when sharpening and stop you using the full blade but still undecided. Handle position something like this.
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    Here's my forge, pretty basic, an old oil drum with platform welded inside part way up to take fire bricks, old brake disc sits down in in the fire bricks, bit of 2" pipe up through the middle of the disc, elbow on the bottom to take the blower. Blower - an old hoover, has a good variable speed dial but rely even on slowest speed it is too much air so also have a flap to open on the outlet to allow more or less air flow. Just took an afternoon to make. Go through phases of using it so it just sits outside the shed and i drag the anvil to the door.
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    Caught wind the site of an old forge was being cleared so went and spoke the the owner that is selling the site. He gave me these 2 leg vices about the only tools left, must be well over 100 years old, the small one likely much older and comes with oak bench. Very rusty and the big one is incomplete but going to try and restore hem to some king of working order. This is the old forge, stone built and can see small stone hollow top left for water? Te old guy can remember working the bellows for his dad when he was a nipper. Belonged to his grandad before that. Said the last job hi
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    Can't you get the threaded bungs from the farm too? Will look if i have any but think i burnt them along with the tops of the barrels i cut off.
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    Nice idea for a skinner handle that, top work gaff.
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    Any design/recommendations for your forced air burner or will i just goggle it? If you made it yourself post any details up on "make your own tools thread". Cheers
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    Not planning to make them up just now but if anyone wants one made up just pm me.
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    You just finished a knife gaff, one of the most versatile tools man has ever made(and the first tool i ever owned) so don't belittle your skills. You make templates etc for your catties etc. You got a good eye for design and making shapes flow as can be seen with your sticks. Not a big gap between that and making other jigs and tools, you have the basic skills an more importantly ideas and an interest in making things. Keep up the good work and trying new ideas that push your boundaries.
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    Thanks wullz, think that is kind of my motto..... "make anything out of anything, nothing got chucked, it got re-used" Joiner to trade, every thing else is self taught, i just like making things...and if i am not making them i am taking them apart! Seem to get an idea in my head and am compelled to give it a try, mostly works....sometimes not but that's how you learn, that and learning from others ideas & experience. Take welding for example...i always loved the idea but never had the chanse to try it out...seemed something almost mystical that specialists did. Thought about it ov
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    Just thinking a lot of the tools i have are home made or adapted so thought it would be useful to share ideas. So anything tools/jigs etc you have made simple or complicated post up descriptions, pics etc. Made this the other night in a couple of hours, simple but effective. A wheel barrow wheel with a sander belt mounted on a lathe for rapid sanding of metal. Deflate the wheel fit the belt and re-inflate to hold belt in place. I just made up the belt from a massive long industrial linishing belt, a box of which i got off ebay. Use a carborundum stone and rub 50mm of grit off one end and t
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    Just having a flick through your photobucket midnight, some nice stuff there. Interested in that gass bottle forge, you make that? Just thinking a made my own tool thread would be good, that is if you don't mind sharing your trade secrets.
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