[TheForge] oxy-propylene, propane tips and air-arc

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Ooooh! I like it!!!!
Except for the arc blow problem.
You'd end up with novel, furry iron sculpture...neat!
I like the way you think Jerry...pf

Jerry Frost wrote:
> You could try stringing a series of shallow ball and socket joints made 
> from mild steel, strung on a cable and mount it on a heavy duty 
> switchable magnet like you have on a MAG-drill. Switch the mag off and 
> it's a limp thing, position the business end where you want it and 
> switch the magnet on and it stays there.
> 
> There's a fellow making human sculptures like this though they're all 
> posed on his magnetic mill table.
> 
> Frosty
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> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
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> From: "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com>
> 
> 
>>
>> Now that I've struck gold once, let me just ask this:
>> Does anyone have suggestions for a multi-axis third arm?
>> 6-axis, preferrably, what would be great is not quite a robot, I would
>> like to be able to lock certain (or all) joints so that a piece (or
>> tool) could be locked to a place or a single axis, or held steady,
>> then easily unlocked to be moved around.  Without locking any axis or
>> carrying much weight at all, a swing-arm lamp might be a start.
>> Yeah, I'm talking totally junk-yard, scrapper stuff here, things that
>> are prolly a waste of time to many folks on the list... heh heh.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> ben
>>
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