Recent content by Blacksmith54

I used some ball bearings from a surplus yard as they sell ball bearing most of the time for about a dollar an inch I bought all the bearings I needed for the project for about $20.00 the spherical one is from a self aligning bearing and if you look at it from the front and carried the radius...

Last year I helped my son build a fiberglass T-Bucket for a Senior Project at ASU as it had to be done in a timely manor he chose a simple car to build, him and his two class mates put in about 1500 hours during the design and build of the project. As a lot of the project was pulled from my...

I could not find a band saw at any price when I need one so I bought an Enco bandsaw and put a 4 to one chain drive on it and use it on its slowest setting if I use a lenox bimetal blade I can cut 1/4 inch steel with it but I use a lot of wax on it to keep the blades alive blade speed is around...

I have a Hossfeld a JD2 and a Diaccro I use the Hossfeld most but for solid stock mostly but I have made my own bending forms from three eights or half inch stock and I do scrolls from .080 1x1 on my Hossfeld fairly often. as I only have round dies for my JD2 I don't know how well they work...

I have a forge as I also have a powerhammer or three and as it works out I can cast silcon bronze with my equipment so on a few times when i want something a little different than I can just buy I make a lost wax mold master and layer it in plaster of Paris and sand after heating it up and...

As name brand kinds of people go. When it comes to welding equipment I go Miller true blue almost all the time but for plasma cutter I used to go Thermal Dynamics and have one (600) also have a Snap-on someone gave me about twenty years ago ($3600.00 new) but I have a buddy who bought one off...

I have made a number of table's over the years my first as I bought the top new was quarter inch thick and 36 and a quarter inches tall (I forgot to deduct the thickness of the plate) and my next four tables were all the same height cause I could space them out or stick them next to one another...

I started an English Wheel project a few weeks ago to show my room mate how to do some dishing on a stump and as at the time I did not have an English wheel I made one from some stuff I bought at a surplus store and the local steel yard from there rem's pile. the frame is 3 x 3 x.250 and the...

I have been around rodding almost all of my life my parents told me I could tell you every make model and year by the time I was four. My first contact with a T-bucket was a cousin in Wyoming who found a nice body and used a 66 Catalina to make it with and for a kid of about ten it was fast...