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

[Jerry Frost]

I'm happy as hell I'm not dead, been there done that, not interesting 
enough to do again till . . . Nevermind.

About the gray hair thing, I think you have it backwards. I'm learning 
more about brains and how they work and it's doing me more good than I 
thought it would. It's important to my style of problem solving to 
define the problem and I'm startig to iId left brain, right brain issues 
and am learning to shift from one to the other. Just starting on that 
trick but it''s amazing how it helps just knowing which hemisphere is in 
charge of what.

Not to get into a semantic thing but that tree didn't drag me down, it 
drove me off and I bounced down. I wish I could operate on your level, 
we're just different and I LIKE different. that must be why I like you 
so much, you're as different as they come and remain likable. <grin>

As just plain "justifying my paycheck" absurd as some modern software is 
it gets my back up. I'll be damned if I let some IT beat me. the secret 
I've discovered is learning how much BS I can just disregard or uninstall.

I think you're right, once a piece of steel has suffered enough it just 
gets so it's better to just assume it's work hardened and normalize it 
from the git go.

If you're using a drill press a trick I've used with good success is to 
use a piece of rd stock about the dia. of the drill bit, chuck it up and 
just let it spin on the center punch mark till rd stock is red. (Call it 
a Friction Drill or FD) It does a fair job of normalizing or just 
running the temper out of the target stock if it isn't too thick. Under 
1/2" use a larger dia. FD, same as target thickness is a fair rule of 
thumb, but I haven't had much luck over 1/2" target. I just pierce it 
with my oxy prop torch, let it cool and chase it out with the drill bit. 
I do SO love that torch.

Jer


On 7/16/2013 10:09 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> Pleased you are so far from dead Jerry,,,grin.
> My guess is that every gray hair is worth some thousands of lost brain cells..
> The tree was just a means to drag you down towards our level.
> The new programs get harder to assimilate and small screens harder to read.
> Ah well.
>
> Took the mistreated bar of steel that ate 3 drill bits yesterday,
> and last thing, heated it well past blue temper color, dull red on the bad spot....let cool slowly
> Used the template to locate hole placement on the back side,
> and drilled through the previous hard spot, then tapped on through, pretty passably.
> Trying to work with a piece of steel with that much history,
> i should'a normalized it first.
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