[TheForge] Portable Forge rebuild

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Dianne/Oak Stump?Jane;
You appear to be as afflicted as the rest of us. My 
condolences..........Pete

Best, Dianne wrote:

>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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