[TheForge] Forging a post vice

[Andrew Vida]

Your crazy friend better be very well equipped, not only to hand 100#+/- 
of very hot iron, but to protect himself from the radiant heat.  Largest 
piece of iron I have ever had at welding heat was maybe 20 or 30 pounds 
with perhaps 10 of those at bright yellow.  The amount of radiant energy 
such a mass throws off is nothing to be casual about.  It will burn you 
seriously from feet away.

I would also say that unless he has experience with the industrial 
forging of masses that large, he is going to have a hard time.  It isn't 
like hammering a taper on a piece of 3/4 square.  It isn't ANYTHING like it.

Ron Childers wrote:
> Thankx for your help. That is the one, but my crazy friend will probably
> want to scale it up to 6" jaws ...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Larry Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forging a post vice
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> This should do it;
> http://www.lightningforge.com/upload61/vise.htm
> 
> 
> At 08:54 AM 4/22/2009 +0100, you wrote:
>> Well I'm interested even if no-one else is!
>>
>> Rich M.
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Larry Brown
>> Sent: 22 April 2009 02:01
>> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forging a post vice
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I was just inadvertently send the plans by a Forge member and I realized I
>> published them In the NJBA newsletter (A long time ago, volume 6 and I'm up
>> to 14 now). If there is any interest I'll post them and send the URL Larry
>> Brown
>>
>>
>> At 01:37 PM 4/21/2009 -0700, you wrote:
>>> There was a series of articles in the Anvil's Ring on restoring a
>>> postvise a while back.
>>>
>>> Ben Barrett wrote:
>>>> Hurm, I seem to remember something like that too, but I also cannot
>>> find it.
>>>> This might be a good ref though:
>>>> http://www.anvilfire.com/FAQs/vises.htm
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Ron Childers <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A friend of mine thinks he wants to forge a post vice. There was an
>>> article
>>>>> in a publication or maybe on the internet about making a post vice
>>>>> that I skimmed through it but don't remember the source. Does
>>>>> anyone know where I might have seen that article?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanx,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ron C
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