[TheForge] Re: original swage block question

Thu Apr 24 11:06:00 2003

Message: 1
  From: "Bob Rackers" <[email protected]>
  To: <[email protected]>
  Subject: RE: [TheForge] Swedge block question
  Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:18:18 -0400
  Reply-To: [email protected]

  I appreciate the alternative solution. However, it doesn't answer the 
original
  questions. (snip)

  And even if I were to go that route, which was one consideration, it still
  would leave my original questions unanswered.
  Suppose you had to get it done today, had no other stock, and couldn't get 
any
  other stock quickly enough.
  Given that situation, what's the most efficient way to do it?
  Alternative solutions are obviously more than welcome, but I'm still 
wondering
  if anyone has the answers to the questions.

  Bob

  -----Original Message-----
  From: [email protected]
  [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Phlip
  Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 12:46 AM
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: [TheForge] Swedge block question

  Dunno, but it seems to me that you're doing things the hard way. If it 
were
  mine to do, I'd swage down some stock with a slightly over-sized cross
  section into the shape I needed, get it into the planar alignment I wanted
  with heat and a soft-faced heavy hammer, make my bends ( hard way bends 
are
  perfectly easy with a starting crease and a bright orange heat),
  flatten/straighten my curve with the same heavy, soft-faced hammer, then
  forge weld the 3/4 inch round back on, with a simple lap joint....bending 
it
  flat then, if needed.

  But then, I believe in getting a job done in THIS lifetime....

  Phlip

Dear Bob and Phlip,

I read the original post and thought that the original question was how to 
make

a. 3/4 wide half/round from 3/4 dia stock (most efficiently)
b. a right angle corners (hard way) in the 3/4 wide half-round section

Perhaps I totally misunderstood the original question, I had deleted the 
original message already.  If my understanding or the original question is 
correct, both of the above forging tasks are easy to do by hand from the 
original 3/4 dia round stock, and corners without any cutting or welding. I 
posted a detailed (I thought) description of how to do this, but I guess I 
must have misunderstood the whole thread. I apologise If I intruded, I was 
trying to be helpful. Perhaps I should read messages more carefully before 
attempting to respond... :-)

Tom Troszak

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