[TheForge] followup on holes in saw blade

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Good idea!

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Try a left hand drill bit and drill the broken bolt, that often extracts em 
> quickly and easily.
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marc3rd" <marc3rd at marc3rd.com>
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 7:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] followup on holes in saw blade
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>> Ok I know I am reaching. but
>> What if we took the annealing with the rod a little farther. I have a
>> shoulder bolt and the threaded part has broken off inside the roller it
>> screws into. what if we kept this process going for a longer time? Would 
>> it
>> get hot enough to actually weld to the broken off threaded piece.?
>> Or would I be better off trying to anneal it and drill it and use a screw
>> extractor?
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Marc
>> Marc V. Davis III
>> Marc of the Hammer
>> marc at marc3rd.com
>> www.marc3rd.com
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>> To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"
>> <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 1:28 AM
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] followup on holes in saw blade
>>
>>
>>> Grin..a tool is a tool.
>>>
>>> Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>> Frosty wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think I mentioned this early in the thread but I've had very good
>>>>> luck annealing hard high C steel for drilling by chucking up a piece
>>>>> of round steel rod about the same dia as I want to drill, then with
>>>>> it turning I press it into the part where the hole's to go. Once the
>>>>> part turns red I retract the rod, let it cool and drill.
>>>> Very clever.  I must have missed it before.  I might even experiment
>>>> with just pushing the rod until some light blue shows up around the
>>>> hot spot -- all depending on just what the workpiece is.  Have to
>>>> remember that.
>>>>
>>>> I think my most bizarre hole-making was on my very first forge. Utter
>>>> novice that I was, I had struggled to form a sheet metal cone-shaped
>>>> hood and bolt it to the little forge only to discover that I needed
>>>> 1/4" aligned holes through two layers of sheet metal to fasten the top
>>>> of the cone together.  Too springy to drill. Dreaded starting over by
>>>> taking the the horrible, floppy, springy thing apart. So I clamped the
>>>> metal and a Balkan Sobranie can [1] full of sand together and shot a
>>>> hole in it with a .22 short. Worked great.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tnx Frosty,
>>>> - Mike
>>>>
>>>> [1] Balkan Sobranie is no longer available so you can't make holes
>>>>     this way any more. 8-)
>>>>
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