Forging sounds very cool. I read in the comments of the article you linked how some people use railroad ties for cheap anvil surfaces - I might be able to come across one of those if you need it. (My Uncle in law worked with the railroad for some time).
I have been interested in how alloys are made - I would be happy to join your efforts when I return stateside. -Michael On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Discuss mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Starting a metalworking lab - Anyone else interested? > (Trever Fischer) > 2. Re: Meeting minutes from 2012-08-28 ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:54:41 -0400 > From: Trever Fischer <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SH-Discuss] Starting a metalworking lab - Anyone else > interested? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Howdy, all! > > Lately, I've been looking into learning how to smelt and refine metals > as part of learning how to practice blacksmithing as a hobby. Its > something I have little to no hands on experience in doing, except for > pouring lead to make weights for a soap box derby car. > > I'd like to start out with refining some copper, as I have amassed a > very large collection of it from the rewiring of my house. > > Anyone else interested in helping out? Sometime next month I want to > start building a small forge, based off this design: > > http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/metalworking/4303543 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:11:30 -0400 (EDT) > From: [email protected] > To: "SYN/HAK discussion list" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SH-Discuss] Meeting minutes from 2012-08-28 > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > You should ask Jason of Computer Design & Repair about Hosting options. > http://akroncdnr.com/ 330-929-2600 > > That's where I host my websites through. > Andy > > \?/ Howdy, hakkers! > \?/ > \?/ I've noticed that there was a meeting on 2012-08-28 and that the > minutes > \?/ are posted. They are visible on the web at > \?/ http://synhak.org/wiki/Meetings/28-8-2012. I've also included them in > this > \?/ mail for reading at your leisure: > \?/ > \?/ {{Infobox_meeting > \?/ |date = 2012-08-28 > \?/ |next = Meetings/4-9-2012 > \?/ |time = 7PM > \?/ |venue = 1456 Riverside > \?/ |previous = Meetings/21-8-2012 > \?/ }} > \?/ > \?/ Moderator: Andrew Leithoa > \?/ Notetaker: Trever Fischer > \?/ > \?/ == Attendees == > \?/ > \?/ * Devin - Vacuum Forms > \?/ * Penny - Eats pretzels > \?/ * Trever - Software engine who breaks websites > \?/ * Shana - STNA at St. Thomas. > \?/ ** Devin dragged her here! > \?/ * Chris - Systems Admin. > \?/ * Andrew - Studies rock. > \?/ * Paul - Grateful dead shirt wearer. > \?/ > \?/ == Announcements == > \?/ > \?/ * Dues are due this Friday > \?/ ** If you haven't paid dues, not responding to Penny's mails is > probably > \?/ the worst thing you can do. If you haven't paid dues, you can suspend > \?/ membership instead of losing membership and going through the > \?/ reapplication process. Which makes getting sponsorship harder. > \?/ ** "Don't avoid me! I'm nice! Honest!" --Penny > \?/ * Chris sez: Website is down and brokenenered. He's growing frustrated > \?/ with the hosting company, considering ditching them because of crappy > \?/ uptime. > \?/ ** Possibly consider moving the site to AWS, Linode, or something. > He'd be > \?/ happy to continue to pay for it. > \?/ ** Trever will investigate our resource constraints > \?/ ** Ricky may be coming around sometime maybe I dunno. > \?/ ** Our DNS is still on Ricky's AWS account, but now we have google > \?/ analytics stats. > \?/ > \?/ > \?/ == Membership == > \?/ > \?/ * No new applications > \?/ > \?/ == Financial Report == > \?/ > \?/ * Same as last week > \?/ > \?/ == Proposals == > \?/ > \?/ * '''Proposal''' by Andrew: Buying a bunch of 555 chips from Mouser > \?/ ** Ebay has better bulk pricing, proposal was retracted. > \?/ > \?/ == Discussion Items == > \?/ > \?/ * Trever wants to move the weekly hacking day to Wednesdays > \?/ * Chris doesn't bowl anymore, so this isn't a problem. > \?/ * Devin gets excited to bowl a 115. > \?/ * Chris got blisters, then decided drinking in the bar is easier > \?/ * Good Vibrations dance party breaks out > \?/ _______________________________________________ > \?/ Discuss mailing list > \?/ [email protected] > \?/ http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > \?/ > > > Dungeon Studios Prototyping > www.dsprototyping.com > [email protected] > (330)814-6103 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > End of Discuss Digest, Vol 14, Issue 15 > *************************************** >
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