[TheForge] fireplace crane hardware

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Making a socket on the hearth would be the easiest solution. The only 
problem is that it is brick not stone, the brick may not be strong enough. 
The bricks are 170 years old and kind of on the chalky side.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dan tull" <dantull at numail.org>
To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored 
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Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] fireplace crane hardware


I'd check and see what the customer wants. Here in Appalachia, it would
normally be an indent in the granite hearth. Maybe the bottom is similar to
the top.?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>
To: "theforge" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:21 PM
Subject: [TheForge] fireplace crane hardware


> I've got a customer that wants a fireplace crane for an 1840's German
> colony
> house that she is restoring. Making the crane itself is no problem, but
> I'm
> unsure about period correct mounting hardware.  It is my guess that the
> top
> pivot point would have feathered edges and be mortered into the side of
> the
> fireplace.  I have no idea what the bottom pivot should look like, a plate
> with anchor bolts holding it in place? A plate recessed in the hearth and
> mortered into place?   Maybe a just a hole in one of the hearth bricks?
> Or
> maybe a large hole with a washer mortered in place?
>
> I've been looking through my blacksmith books and can't find the details I
> need.
>
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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