[TheForge] Focused air cooling

[Barking Crow]

At our FABA meeting yesterday at Rick Jay's shop he demonstrated the making
of a grape vine and cluster of grapes that he wrapped around a 3-legged
stand that would become a lamp.  Several neat tricks were demonstrated.
When it's finished he goes back over it with the torch to burn off part of
the scale and loosen the rest of the scale so it will be easier to hand sand
off.  You can tell where there is a lot of scale by the concentration of
tiny orange dots as it burns off.   The hand sanding also highlights the
high spots before he slops on Watco Danish oil which he will wipe most of
off almost immediately and then spray with cheap clear spray paint, let dry
and its ready for the electrical wiring and a customer.  One of the neatest
tricks I learned was the use of compressed air to cool the bends as he
wrapped the vine around the lamp.  Its not sloppy like the water which will
promote rust and very convenient as he just hangs the air hose over the post
vise or some other handy surface.  He had two of the largest post vises I've
ever seen mounted together on the concrete floor such that the jaws are the
same height and about 18 - 24" apart.   His main work table is pretty
impressive, it's a 6 x 12 "sheet"  of 1" steel mounted on the lift of the
service station that occupied the building before Rick.

Jeff Valentine

Barking Crow
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