[TheForge] Portable Forge rebuild

[Best, Dianne]

Pete wrote "The  above is why you recieved advice to find another one....but
some of us are more stubborn than sensible...It may well be part of the 
syndrome"

Have we met? How'd ya know I'z stubborn as a oak stump?

I knew these weren't a great forge a'fore'n I got this one - I done my
homewerk 'n' saw a number of nasty comments 'bout 'em.

What I'm up to, first off, is to make a bunch of small fittings for a 1/3
scale Civil War cannon. It's all light stuff 'n' small pieces - thar's
brackets, straps, pins, chains, etc. what'll haffta be done from scratch
- probably could'a forged 'em in a coffee can ;-)

If'n I really get hooked on smithin 'n' want to keep it up, I'll build
somethang more suitable later on. By then I'll have a better idea of what I
need.

(I was intending to build a forge and was on the hunt for a firepot when
this rivet forge presented itself to me at 1/10th the price of a used
firepot, so what the heck. At least this one is portable and can be moved
out of my shop when not in use - what I was going to build would have been
"moveable" but not "portable"!)

Whal, I lucked out on the flywheel. The broken piece was such a perfect fit
that it would stay in place by itself, so I just put a tiny tack weld in
each crack. Considering it isn't delivering much horsepower ;-) that otta
hold it fer nuther hundred years. Didn't get it hot enough to cause any
problems.

Next step, re-babbit the fan and put some band-aids on the pan crack.

Thanks fellers!

Calamity (oak stump) Jane


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