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by dallen
Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:03 am
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: whats you peoples up too
Replies: 19
Views: 6136

Re: whats you peoples up too

the really hard part is getting the damn lid to stay shut long enough for the melt to actually happen, :mrgreen: :mrgreen: hows the weather in everyones local, I got trees with half inch of ice on them, and limbs hitting the ground all around me, powers still on thankfully, cause I wouldn't go out i...
by dallen
Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:56 pm
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: whats you peoples up too
Replies: 19
Views: 6136

Re: whats you peoples up too

CAE, I have always had an interest in steam engines, don't know what but its the reason that I got into metal casting. learned some about steam engines the last few years just never actually got around to building the damn thing. I want to build a vertical enginem and the one that I want to do is if...
by dallen
Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:38 am
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: whats you peoples up too
Replies: 19
Views: 6136

Re: whats you peoples up too

now thats a nice piece of work, I started having thoughts again of steam engines is what got me to uncover my stuff and see if it would still work, plus Brandon whated a burner for what I have no idea cause I figure that now hes got it about the only thing he will melt with it will be lead from the ...
by dallen
Sat Oct 17, 2020 1:15 pm
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: whats you peoples up too
Replies: 19
Views: 6136

Re: whats you peoples up too

heres a shop of the burner firing on propane, the furnace in this photo is the first furnace that I built many years ago and is till going full throttle I would say even if the lid looks like its going to fall off its still got the same old cheap hinge holding it to the body.
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by dallen
Fri Oct 16, 2020 4:27 pm
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: whats you peoples up too
Replies: 19
Views: 6136

Re: whats you peoples up too

Latz, I've told him time and time again but it does about as much good as it did with the ex, I'm still left out in the cold. CAE, sounds like you have the material situation pretty much sewed up. Heres a couple of photos. there not the prettiest photos but we did manage to get the part poured in on...
by dallen
Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:43 am
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: whats you peoples up too
Replies: 19
Views: 6136

Re: whats you peoples up too

looks like Charlie gets to keep his blanket and I'll be the one sleeping in the cold. plaster and sheetrock I try to stay as far from as I can, I dug out some Sodium Silicate thats been under the kitchen cabinet for like 10 years it seems like, anyway it hardened up when I hit it with some gas, so t...
by dallen
Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:25 pm
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: whats you peoples up too
Replies: 19
Views: 6136

whats you peoples up too

I actually uncovered my foundry stuff and am in the process of getting a part ready to cast for a burner for a friend, who will probably never use it. will stick a photo on here tomorrow. Pattern is pretty simple just a couple pvc fittings stuck together with some glue and because of no draft I'm mo...
by dallen
Mon Sep 14, 2020 7:05 pm
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: Alloy Avenue log in
Replies: 19
Views: 6437

Re: Alloy Avenue log in

it sucks when someone kicks the bucket with out telling anyone that they are going to, but it does happen
by dallen
Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:19 pm
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: Trying Times
Replies: 16
Views: 6216

Re: Trying Times

if its done here the big pharma boys will milk it for all they can
by dallen
Sun Jul 05, 2020 10:00 am
Forum: Square Peg
Topic: the forth
Replies: 5
Views: 2908

Re: the forth

nice fireworks,