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Hey Ed, That forge looks great, and it was cool seeing the process done with castable. It should hold up for a long time. Quick question though, what psi were you running on your propane reg at welding temp? Also is that pipe next to the door a additional blower to keep down "dragons breath"?

Hey Steve, I just saw your post last night and fixed mine. The links were from my website, which uses Amazon's enterprise data servers, so the false positive could be from outdated software or settings. Norton is notorious for false positives to begin with as their policy is to err on the side...

I wish you and your wife a fast recovery Ed. I have had a couple friend get lyme and it was not a fun ordeal for them. Your going to need all your strength to get the roof on that new shop!

Your shop is close to the square footage of where I am trying to stick everything in Ed. I am fortunate that machining and fabrication are my family's trade and we have a good sized building. The trick though is carving out a section to setup this stuff without disrupting other operations. If I...

Thanks Ed, I hope some people chime in on this because everyone works differently, and it would be interesting to know what makes some peoples shops efficient for them. Today I started moving stuff around to get a idea of what I was looking at in the forging area. Just trying to figure out...

That's almost the size of a Evenheat KO-22, which is 9"Wx5.5"Hx22.5"D, and is 240 volt, 13 amps, 3120 watts. That being said, 4kw should be fine. I would just order a replacement element for the evenheat and be done with it...

Hey Knife Dogs, I thought I should post up some of my years worth of work and get some feedback. Warning- I am not a photographer. To give some background, in the fall of 2014 I started working full time in my family’s machine shop and decided to expand it into making some products. We...

Hey Knife Dogs, I purchased some power hammers a while back and took the last few weeks while work was slow to re-arrange the shop and do a ton of cleaning. Now I am trying to re-setup everything, taking the time to change some of the ways I had things setup before and find room for my new...

Those look great, thanks for sharing. Good looking forge too.

I have seen people who have put bearings in the Grizzly wheels with good results; but the one I did would not run true. The first time I indicated the hell out of it and bored it in a mill with DRO, and the second time it was indicated and bored in a lathe with DRO. I think the rubber is just...

I would rock that first design with the motor you have and some step pulleys to get moving. By putting the motor on a hinge it would make it easy to change speeds. I saw a thread on blade forums earlier today that talked about contact wheels you might want to look at. I dunno what the quality is...

There calling them Variable Frequency Drives, but yes, I know what you mean. http://www.invertekdrives.com/variable-speed-drives/optidrive-e2-single-phase/features.aspx The second link I posted had prices at the bottom. This is for a 1.5 HP Motor: ODE2-22015-1H042-01 1.5hp OPTIDRIVE E2...

http://www.invertekdrives.com/variable-speed-drives/optidrive-e2-single-phase/ They make VFD's for certain types of single phase motors. http://www.bardac.com/shop/price-ode2.php if you scroll to the bottom it shows up to 1.5 HP. I have always used three phase vfd's however. Otherwise for...

There is a reason it is also a phase converter. Most VFD's do not play well with single phase motors. Like I said above, you can find some that do, but most are setup for three phase output with single or three phase input. This has to do with how single phase motor starting circuits function...

Nice looking machine! That's a score, and you got what looks to be a good looking mag vise too.

Hey David. Having a variable speed control versus a belt control is so much nicer. The controller that you linked though will not work for two reasons. First, its 50 Hz, which would be a European standard for power. Canada uses the same power standard as the U.S., which is 60Hz power...

That's hand scraping. Most decent machines have the ways scraped, and there are are different levels of scraping. It looks terrible, yes, because it wasn't done to a industry standard imho, but should be functional. http://metalscraping.com/w2-Preview.html

There are a lot of great suggestions here, I thought I would add what information I could. First, I would look into local ABANA (Artists Blacksmith's Association of North America) chapters, like the Northwest Blacksmith Association (www.blacksmith.org). Generally these organizations can help...

No No man, I didn't mean to imply you did not wear one, I just meant that the filter unit does more for shop dirt than your lungs.

I have a a Delta 50-860 air filtration unit in our machine shop area near the lathes and TIG setup. It works pretty good getting rid of welding and coolant fumes, and like you said, keeps my heat in during the months that I don't want to open a door. As far as grinding, I use a good filter...