My father has a real Anvil, it wieghs 200lb (I think) it's a sight to see and yes I've used it many times.
You can buy a smelting furness from http://www.riogrande.com/Category/Tools-and-Equipment/120/Casting-Equipment-and-Supplies/5864 I have seen people make there own, just have to have a good cauldron. \¥/ 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 \¥/> *************************************** \¥/> \¥/ _______________________________________________ \¥/ 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
