[TheForge] Anyone know why IForgeIron dot com is down?

[Jerry Frost]

Thanks Pete, I AM doing way better than expected and getting something 
back every time I push a limit. After sending the past post I realize 
how much it sounds like I'm making excuses and to be honest I don't know 
if a or not. I have reasons I deal with daily but don't want excuses, 
what I'm looking for is more control of my tongue. I used to live in S. 
Cal so I know from first person experience what good reasons you have to 
rant. It's NO accident I moved out as soon as I could. My Father was 
probably the best metal spinner west of the Miss and had a shop with 
more than 1/2 million worth of contracts on the floor at any one time. 
He commited the sin of being too successful in S. Cal. his tax base 
jumped to the point of being a losing proposition and they made the 
taxes and penalties RETROACTIVE. Lost the shop and almost everything. He 
went from successful businessman to paycheck to paycheck employee with a 
stroke of California income tax revision. They revised tax code, 
reevaluate the business and decided he owed taxes and penalties more 
than the assets were worth, seized it and auctioned it all, My sister 
and my horses, our boat, the house, etc. etc. He could've have fought it 
but legal representation was worth more than we had.

Oh CRAP I got off on a rant on THAT ball of shit. Sorry, you live it, I 
just watched California take almost everything we had and got out as 
soon as I legally could but not with much more my clothes. There's a 
reason I don't trust ANY politicians and virtually NEVER vote for an 
incumbent. The alternative has to be pretty heinous before I'll vote to 
let them keep their position. I don't discuss politics because mine are 
straight forward. I'm in the FIRE EM ALL!!! Party.

Sorry, doing simple arithmetic and comparing it to GVTs everywhere just 
pisses - me - OFF and I don't seem to be able to stop when I get really 
pissed.

Speaking of chipping, a couple weeks ago I hit a garage sale and picked 
up a nice needle scaler for $2.00 all it needed was a quick connect that 
matches my air. Speaking of projects, I've taken on two. One is building 
a tire hammer for a friend and I have a nice pile of steel to clean, 
cut, grind, etc. etc. I'll send a pic of the thing we have to use for 
the sow block. I HOPE we can use it. If not he has a couple alternatives 
available so it's going to be a matter of picking salvage and figureing 
out the fit. No biggy, brainstorming these things is what I do, I LOVE 
this kind of gig. <grin> My parameters are: tire hammer to fit approx, 
3'x4' space, limited headroom of approx, 7'+ 6", 15-20lb ram, max stroke 
within reason, close throat, other physicals to be determined, 120v 
power on 20amp breaker, the breaker is about 4' from hammer's proposed 
location.

The other project is repairing a Trenton anvil with badly chipped edges. 
Were it mine I'd use it as is and just make a bottom tool to use for 
good edges when I needed them. However the owner is a kid, maybe 15 and 
he just MUST have good crisp edges and his Dad has a buzz box in the 
garage so it's going to get welded on regardless. I figure I can do it 
with a minimum of damage from running beads. <sigh> It'll take me a 
couple days just to asses the damage and decide on materials. We'll see 
if he wants to foot the bill, I'm not charging labor, just out of 
pocket. And get *this*, he has a brand spanking new Nimba Centurion. Oh 
well, kid shit.

Bummer about not having steel within a reasonable distance, I've been 
there and it sucks. Here's something to add to my Frosty The Lucky 
handle: two of the guys I've been teaching smithing just can't help but 
bring drops by to help pay for tutoring. One works night watch for a 
fabrication outfit that gave him permission to pull anything he can haul 
out of the scrap bins, the other works for a heavy machine shop in 
Anchorage and he has access to some wildly useful scrap and stuff being 
replaced  in the oil field and mining operations. We're building the 
tire hammer with drops and worn/broken components.

Oh yeah, here's to add insult to injury, one steel yard is about 10 mins 
away but the better deals are to be found at the steel yard that's about 
25 mins from here. The only real downside is nobody with working brain 
cells casually "putts" ANYWHERE on  the KGB, (Knik Goose Bay road) the 
Palmer Wasilla Highway OR the Parks Highway. You'd swear a large % of 
people up here learned to drive in India or S. America, it can be just 
stupid dangerous driving to the supermarket.

Jer


On 7/15/2013 8:42 AM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> You are doing fine Jerry and i appreciate the IFI update.
> Delighted you are back in your shop with the forge burning again.
> Gotta so though, you having such a good excuse for your rants, makes me look bad.
> Spent an hour yesterday chipping and grinding through old welds and salt water rust layers
> on a 2" X 2 1/2" X 4' steel bar so i could begin to saw , drill , chisel and grind it
> into a tool holder for the loaner hydraulic press.
> Thinking about you guys who can casually putt across town and buy steel any weekday.
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