Checkin' In

[Jammer]

You're the King of the neighborhood. Thinking about a rental?

[latzanimal]

Sort of. We are helping our oldest in buying it. She has a year left of nursing school. At least this way I can yell at the neighbor...

[mite5255]

Still on my feet, feeling great. Having cataracts OP next Wednesday

[Jammer]

Hey Mike! Good to hear from you. My wife had her eyes done. Now she sees everything.

Are you still working in the Village Blacksmith shop?

[mite5255]

Yea mate, still doing demos for school children, I don't do a lot tho, my hands don't like banging on an anvil much these days, so I keep it very simple

[Jammer]

I got to where the hammer would just drop out of my hand if I did too much.

[cae2100]

Well, if I were there, I'd swing the hammer for both fo you guys, lol.

Ive been working with a fellow blacksmith that just had shoulder surgery a few months ago and any heavy forging, I do the drawing out and such, and he just does the light stuff like bending and such, to make up the tools he wants. He's an artistic style blacksmith, so he does the scroll work and such, and Im a toolmaker style, so he only works with mild steel and Ive been teaching him to make his own tools and such from tool steels, lol. He wanted to get into wood carving, and spoon carving, so we've been hammering out a bunch of chisels, spoon gouges, whittling knives, etc for him lately.

It's kept me busy anyways, lol.

[latzanimal]

Band played its first Official job Saturday. Went well.

Dropped our youngest off at college almost a month ago.

Put up a couple of fences at the kids' houses. Never a dull moment....

Glad everyone is well!

[greentwin]

I am still kicking, but have slowed down quite a bit.
I did get my CR500 out the other day and ride it, just to be sure it would still run, and to be sure I could still ride it (I did and survived).
I showed a photo of it to my heart doctor, and he said "You don't need a heart doctor, you need a psychiatrist".

I am working on making 3D printed patterns for a 1/2 size 4hp Baker Ball Hopper Monitor hit and miss engine.

I am also working on 3D printed patterns for a 1/2 size O-S steam engine like the one Dave Richards was using to run his old-school machine shop.

I noticed the other foundry forum has been struggling a bit as far as staying online, and recently it seems to have vanished completely.
I am not sure if it will ever come back, and so as a precaution, I set up a new Xenforo backyard casting forum.
I think my furnace thread on the other forum was approaching 200,000 views.
Perhaps they were bot views; I don't know, but at any rate, I am posting my furnace thread again on the internet.

I am about to get caught up with work projects, and so perhaps finally I will have time to do some serious casting work in iron.

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[Jammer]

How have you been doing? Good to see you are still working on the Monitor. I would love to cast one of those, actually I would love to cast anything. It's been kind of a rough summer.