[TheForge] Square headed screws/bolts (make them)!!!!

[Dan Scheid]

mike try dropping  your bolt and head in a bucket of muratic acid for about
5 min it will strip the galvanizing right off. do it out side and you don't
have to worry about breathing it any more.
just a thought
Dan Scheid
Flying horse forge
http://home.earthlink.net/~chevalvolant/flyinghorseforge.html

> What is all this!!!!!
>
> I make my own square headed pyramid head bolts for the jobs....
>
> The hardware store down  in town has square nuts plated.
> I have a hundred count box of about 6 sizes.
>
> I then buy the appropriate size "lag bolt" or" threaded bolt and cut the
heads
> off the bolts, I then stuff or screw the bolt into the nut "half way" and
weld
> inside the hole, and fill the hole past the top.
> I then grind the top to a four sided pyramid head.
>
> I then place the pieces into the forge and burn all the galvanizing off.
> I am lucky because I have a shotgun shop with a large sliding doors at
each end,
> when both are open the breeze is very strong and I stay upwind...
>
> As for welding the galvanized bolts onto the galvanized nut I use a very
good
> filter mask..
>
> After all the galvanizing is removed I then sandblast or wire brush, then
,
> Blacken and or, clear coat or paint..
> There are places that you can buy non plated bolts and square nuts,  but
that is
> almost as bad as  the search for completed pieces.
>
> It's just so easy to run up the hardware store...
>
> The search and the high quantify purchase  is not worth the time... It is
just
> easier to make then..
>
> Mike Wolfe
>
>
>
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