TootsieB
19th May 2019, 01:28 PM
Been browsing some threads, very useful and entertaining. Had a fight with an angle grinder this week and am confined to a chair with foot up for about a month. This forum is keeping me happy as I can’t potter in the shed for a while.
I was making a stand for a new flypress Sweeney and Blocksidge (#10 I think, screw is 2 1/2 inch and has a “1” on the ram. Other projects are making tooling for the press, made two so far a cutter and bowl press. I am also slowly restoring a Coronet Major woodworking machine.
I do some intermittent blacksmithing but really just potter around doing stuff. Got a small anvil from old Midland railway workshops and made a gas forge from a 9kg gas bottle with a burner kit bought online. Works like a beauty so I sold my charcoal forge to get some space back. Also working on a power hacksaw which I’ve got working but still needs some restoration. It will get more work now I’m sworn off grinder cutting!
My user name is really the old cat’s name as I was flailing around for a name that hadn’t already been used, probably should have tried for something a bit more tradesmanlike. “Sooty” might have been somewhere in between.
asked some advice on cutting 45 degree cuts with a power hacksaw yesterday and got some help, thanks for that looks like I will hang around.
cheers Peter
I was making a stand for a new flypress Sweeney and Blocksidge (#10 I think, screw is 2 1/2 inch and has a “1” on the ram. Other projects are making tooling for the press, made two so far a cutter and bowl press. I am also slowly restoring a Coronet Major woodworking machine.
I do some intermittent blacksmithing but really just potter around doing stuff. Got a small anvil from old Midland railway workshops and made a gas forge from a 9kg gas bottle with a burner kit bought online. Works like a beauty so I sold my charcoal forge to get some space back. Also working on a power hacksaw which I’ve got working but still needs some restoration. It will get more work now I’m sworn off grinder cutting!
My user name is really the old cat’s name as I was flailing around for a name that hadn’t already been used, probably should have tried for something a bit more tradesmanlike. “Sooty” might have been somewhere in between.
asked some advice on cutting 45 degree cuts with a power hacksaw yesterday and got some help, thanks for that looks like I will hang around.
cheers Peter