9:29 pm
January 18, 2011
Got to fooling around with some 2-1/2'' re bar today for an ''iron in the hat'' piece at RMSC this week end........5'' x 1-1/4 deep....... Attached thumbnail(s)
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12:29 am
March 21, 2011
1:44 am
January 18, 2011
Tom Allyn;11554 wrote: How the hell did you do that? [Image Can Not Be Found]
I was at the scrap yard and while I was waiting in line to dump I spyed a 3' chunk of 2 1/2'' reeb by my truck (the fattest I've ever seen)......reasoning that it would be fair if I traded some of mine for that so it came aboard....no way I could buy it.
Now originally I figured to twist it for a sculpture element and I still plan to, less 7.'' About 2/3 through the first heat I found out it was galvanized, gag, so I cleared out of the shop for awhile.....
Ah, the question....Using flat dies in my 250# PH I upset it about 4 heats, the switched the upper flat with a hemisphere die made from a mill ball about 4'' dia., and drove it in to form the bowl.....
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
3:48 am
NWBA Member
August 8, 2010
Just wow.
Dave
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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4:38 am
March 22, 2010
gavlie rebar hu? Thats a new one on me.... Ive seen stainless rebar a time or two, epoxy coated bar.. But not Galvanized...
I hate finding out something is galvanized like that... that fume cloud sucks..
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