Found Dreaming

Jammer wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 27, 2025 10:55 am

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. Don't eat too much.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone also, and no promises on eating too much, lol.

Thanks, with all of the people that had been getting into metal casting over the last few years, Ive been wanting to do something on it and cover as much as I could, but didnt know how to do it. I absolutely hate being on camera usually, so while editing it, I had to record alot of the stuff 2-4 tim...

I did this video up a few days ago and figured I'd toss it up here also. I tried to cover as much as I could think of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY-oyd8aYWQ If you guys could share it around on the other home foundry sites, I'd really appreciate it, since there is so many people getting into m...

Ive been thinking about this for a while, mostly pertaining to the T rabbet plane that I cast in bronze. That pine that I made the pattern from has some issues and is horribly unstable. It was fine until I put shellac on it, which took quite a good bit of shellac because of how porous the wood is an...

Thanks man, it's pretty comfortable and ready to go now except just sharpening the blade/iron on it, but I keep putting that off till I actually am ready to use it, lol.

Oh yea, I did finish this one. It is all carved and shaped. I just sat down the other night and started whittling on it to shape the back end and start to shape it, then using scrapers to smooth everything out. It has a 2 1/4" wide blade, which Ive since cleaned up and started lapping the blade...

yea, most have two cylinders on them, that way the hoist can self start and never get caught top dead center or bottom dead center since one engine's crank is 90 degrees out of phase, so it'll always start up and start cranking.

No idea on the bottom one, just a simple vertical bottle engine really, but the top one is a steam hoist/winch, which were pretty common, or also could have come out of an old steam shovel or something too. Ive seen a few steam winches before and they're pretty cool. Pat may know more about them, if...

Oh ok, I thought it was the crucible type ones since the bottom was so wide open. I always saw the type in that diagram have small bottoms so that the bottom would fill up with the molten iron, and cause more of the stuff to funnel down to a tighter and tighter area so more air could be blown up thr...

Happy birthday man, and you looked like you had as much as fun as a pig in a mud puddle, lol. Those big tall furnaces are pretty cool, Ive only seen pics of them but they're old steel/carburizing furnaces for converting wrought to steel/carbon steel/tool steels. You would put crucibles in there with...