my Railroad Track anvil build thread
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Lippyp
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What you should be burning is actually coke, the idea with a smithing fire is that the coal on the outside edge of the fire turns to coke with the heat of the fire and is then fed into the fire to burn. Pure coal has a lot of impurities that are driven off by the coking process.
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Have a look here http://www.beautifuliron.com/ for some really useful information about forge fires and forge design.
Lippyp
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The idea is that the fire makes the coke from the coal, coke is just coal thats had the impurities driven off by heating. Might be a little harder on a small forge like a brake drum as there's not much room around the firepot. Over here you can still buy whats called "Smithy Breeze" which is proper blacksmithing grade coke in small pieces, runs about £15 for a 44lb bag.
steel 35
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Ok the spike knife is cool I may need to try it; but the anvil is a you ****!
some grate guy's (Jon) and (Eric) have shown an intrest in showing me a thing or two on the anvil ! got the big shop to my self for a hour today ! was like being in heaven ! the little tent is Eric , he is very very good ! it looks as if sunday ill have the big shop to play in agen and a key to the shop if all goes good ! wish me luck ! heres some pics , more sunday...
ilovevocs
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You should stop loaning out your tools. Your lucky if they bring them back, po'ed when you need them and have to pick them up, and just plain po'ed when you finally get them back and they clearly have been used and abused. Its hard work to keep a tool looking and functioning properly. Almost a job with in a job.
I only loan tools to a select fee friends. My brother in law returns tools same day, wiped down,cleaned, oiled / serviced. I dont mind loaning tools to someone like that. My brother?!! I have to beg him to get them back, drive to his house to pick them up, and them clean them before I put them away. He wonders why I don't like him to use them.
rvr6000
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Pretty cool....I'm inspired to make a stand for my RR anvil now. Maybe cut a nice piece of oak while I'm up home next week....lots of dead fall from a storm we had last summer.
Lippyp
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Thats a nice shop there, its given me lots of ideas for setting mine up. That cone mandrel is huge! I might have to cut a drop down window like that in the side to give me some light and ventilation.
Hi from Virginia. My first visit to the forum. Good thread. I just band sawed a 42" piece of track into two 21" pieces and am laying out my anvils for flame cutting. Track is very old and heavily rusted so I have one piece in a tote to remove heavy rust by electrolysis. We'll see how well it works.
Jerry
Jerry