[TheForge] Re: Repairing pot metal: Is *anything* reliable?

[Mike]

> Mike do you have a current picture of the A&O. I would love to see
> what you ended up with.

Well, Mike, I haven't quite "ended up" yet.  What's on the web is still
pretty much what it looks like.  I still need to fiddle several
details and before I've "ended up".  I may just possibly even pony up
for an electric motor if it turns out that it works well enough that I
can actually *use* it without many hours of further tinkering. 

After a few more minor details and maybe a coat of paint I'll put up
another pic and post a URL here.

The only entertaining feature of the latest improvement is the treadle
counterweight.  Rather than muck with carefully making something that
might turn out to be too heavy or too light and have to be re-done, I
put a pipe socket on the end of the treadle arm.  Welded a smaller
pipe to the kinda-bowl-shaped shell of an old power brake booster and
dropped that into the socket.  Now I can just pile rocks in the bowl
to get the right weight.  Nova Scotia has rocks in an infinitely
graduated range of sizes, perfectly suited to this application. :-)

- Mike

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