[TheForge] Alldays & Onions arrives!

Mon Oct 7 00:20:01 2002

Sounds great, Mike. Hope you get it running soon.

Steve Smith

Mike Spencer wrote:
> Big excitement!  My 300# Alldays and Onions arrived Friday.  We had a
> bad moment after the anvil was in place and all caulked and sealed
> against water.  The hammer wouldn't go over the 1 1/4" studs.  Hitched
> up the pickup to the anvil with a chain and took a strain on it while
> the hammer dangled from the crane.  Tim Bollivar (previous owner,
> helping me out with the installation) was then able to nudge the
> hammer into place with a big bar.  Sigh.
> 
> The crane truck operator thought it was all Very Cool.
> 
> The ram is seized but a look inside the bore reveals no cesspit of
> corruption, only a few spots of rust.  It's soaking in a pool of
> kerosene and I think it'll loosen up okay when I can get a portapower
> under it.
> 
> The ram oiler needs repair that I can do.  The integral compressor seems
> to be fine.  Ram tensioner is all crudded up but not seized, a little
> worn but repairable.  Have yet to dismantle the control valve assembly
> but it isn't seized so it's probably okay.
> 
> Somebody welded the lower die wedges in place but they did a poor job
> so I can cut them loose easily.  Less sure about getting the wedges
> out since the thing has been outdoors unprotected for seven years.
> I won't worry about that until I see it run.
> 
> Installed on a big ol' concrete pad, a modified version of the one
> specified in the A&O installation blueprints.  It's outdoors, 4' from
> a section of shop wall specially constructed so I can knock out 10' of
> wall without weakening the building.  If I get the thing running, I'll
> build a shed over the hammer and open the wall.  If I never get it
> going, on the other hand, I won't have to cut a hole in the roof to
> lift it out.  Dynamite lawn sculpture, though.
> 
> All very exciting.  Now I just gotta get the forge installed and I'll
> have a blacksmith shop again and a project to soak up all the free
> time I had laying around.
> 
> Anybody want to but my old shop?  Big old building in the very center
> of a picturesque Nova Scotia fishing village?
> 
> http://www.homesacrosscanada.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/cps.woa/4/wa/ListingDetails?board=SSNS&wosid=NtKZ0noZEYdT83ZCQhdpM0&key=769713
> 
> (And that's in Canadian dollars, too.)
> 
> - Mike
> 
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> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
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