New shop started

[plastikosmd]

Well, the “215lb Peter Wright” that I thought I owned turns out to be a 1904 or so Hay Budden.

Cleaned the patina and oiled it up. It should make someone happy (I don’t really have room for 2 anvils)

 

[daugen]

I wonder if a machinist could grind that old anvil top nice and smooth

something elemental about an anvil. They've been around a long long time.

 

[plastikosmd]

It could be ground but it is flat enough for smith work. Sometimes dead flat (or sharp edges) aren’t your friend.

Some will mill and weld a tool steel plate to them. This survivor is just fine

 

[plastikosmd]

Fence repair time

 

[EddieWalker]

Who needs a tractor when you have a CJ5?

 

[plastikosmd]

Ha, ya my version of a sxs

 

[plastikosmd]

So I’ve had this ?heat treating? Oven for 20 years. PO had piped it directly from his inside NG line. I guess it worked but I needed to use on LP. The 18 orifices were almost 5/16”

I couldn’t get any heat or good flame. So time to make a more appropriate LP orifice(s).


18 brass orifices, 5/16-18 and #14 drill, added 2 flats (quick and dirty) for 1/4” wrench.



Size F drill to clean up and tap.


Easily went up to 1400 deg F. I probably could get a bit more out of it fiddling with a mixture, but anything above the tempering temperature is fine for me.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Oooh! I see a geometric die head threader in your turret!
What are you going to temper?

 

[plastikosmd]

Dunno!

Just had it sitting as a project for years

Yes, good eye on die head!

 

[plastikosmd]

Also got a new air compressor for the jeep