[TheForge] Re: original swage block question

Thu Apr 24 16:58:00 2003

Of course, you could just order 3/4 in half round A36 bar stock.   
Centaur sells it in 80" lengths for about $9 a stick.   I have seen it 
in their catalog for years, but never needed it.  Filed it away in the 
wet grey cabinet, waiting for a question like this.   Save your arm.......

Charles

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>Tom,
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>I thought your plan was workable. Several others would have worked too depending on tooling/skills available. I'm not sure what the problem with the responses was.
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>Bob Schade
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>>Dear Bob and Phlip,
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>>I read the original post and thought that the original question was how to 
>>make
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>>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
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>>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... :-)
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>>Tom Troszak
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