[TheForge] Re: website

Mon Jan 20 00:15:04 2003

> What type of shop accessories did you stick into the new building you
> just put up?  Did I get those pictures out just a tad late?

Yup, you did.  I pretty well planned my layout ahead of time but time
constraints meant I couldn't work through all the details and optimize
everthing before hand.

> Is there still time to add the floor pockets, blower feeds, downdraft
> exhaust system, the weld rails, and the floating/removable power
> hammer bases?  Or is your floor all creted over and a done deal?

Cement poured, building up, all moved in, forge in place and just got
the 25# Jardine bolted down.  An moveable hood exhaust system and a
bridge crane similar to yours are planned but the money pipe is
sucking mud until I sell the old shop building.

But tell me -- tell us -- about them there "floating power hammer bases".
I'm about to install an overhead flatbelt jackshaft for the hammer but
I can imagine having a change of mind, especially if I manage to get
the A&O air hammer going next summer.  And what are "weld rails"?

Actually, in my planning I thought more about how to put stuff on
wheels than about how to make permanent, immovable floor pockets.
F'rgzample, I have a poor man's version of your scissors jack dolly --
a wooden dolly with heavy duty casters and a thing sort of like a
simple wagon jack -- to move my 4'x4'x1/2" welding table.  The forge
is on casters so, after pulling off a 10" wide band on the flue, it
can go out of the way, taking the attached quench tank and blower with
it.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 

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