[TheForge] Re: Odd size stock

[Jerry Frost]

You know Bill, I was going to suggest a set of rolls but it's reducing a 
lousy 12' by 1/16". It'd take much longer to build the rolls than forge the 
stock to size. Either could mean the difference between making bid or not.

I think it's an educational project and no I'm not taking a shot at you, 
Oclala Bill did that for me. <grin> I've learned the hard way not to design 
oddities into things unless they're unavoidable. The one that really stands 
out in my memory were the 9/16" NF bolts I designed into a piece of 
machinery. I don't recall what the piece of equipment was, but BOY do I 
remember what a pain in the ass it turned out to be replacing those bolts 
when they needed it!

Anyway, I'd just build a fire and get to hammering if I couldn't modify the 
design.

On the serious side of this is your intentions. Do you do this as a hobby or 
do you want to make a living at it? If you want to make a living you can NOT 
afford to play games with bids or even more seriously, let your ego make 
decisions for you. When Father owned his shop we used to attend the auctions 
of the business' who's owners who made those kinds of mistakes.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/


From: "Bill Roberts" <robertsb at pig.net>


>I think that's a good way to get a shop drawing..........as long as 
>everything is to drawn to scale in the first place. :)
> Patty always was the smart one.......LOL ;) The time you've spent  looking 
> and writing about it..........you could have not only forged  down the 
> material 1/16" and probably be half way through with your  project.....:)
> IT IS ONLY 1/16"..............noooooooooo your not anal.
> <BIG GRIN>
> couldn't resist...........bill

> On Apr 7, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Patty Draper/Bill Robertson wrote:
>
>>  I thought I was being smart by drawing my design out small then  taking 
>> it down to an architectural blueprint shop and enlarging  it.  I "could" 
>> forge it out, but now it has become a challenge to  find it.  (Patty 
>> thinks I'm being anal).
>
> Bill Roberts
> www.CustomDesignMetalArts.com
>