I am looking for a picture or drawings for a foot powered forge blower.
When in Prague in 1999 we saw one at a festival in the old town
area, but I didn't get a picture of it. The blacksmith's forge was a
very lightweight affair with what looked like a treadle powered sewing
machine mechanism driving the blower. The blower was run by one foot
since the smith had to be standing when using it.
Any help would be appreciated,
Pete Stanaitis
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And have a flywheel and it will go when you take a break or have to move.
It also keeps a steady force.
Sounds like a good concept to me.
Martin H. Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal.
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
I remember seeing one of those, are you going to build one?
You could scavenge an old treadle sewing machine and a Buffalo Forge
Blower, maybe.
Regards Charles
spaco wrote:
My wife found the picture we took in 1999 after I convinced myself that
we didnt' take one.
See it here:
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I left it pretty big so you could see what the guy is selling, too.
Sorry that the forge is hard to see with all the ironwork in front of
it, but that's the only picture I have of it.
We played a dirty trick on this guy. There were 44 blacksmiths on
the trip. We were all watching him forge. we asked our interpreter
to tell him that "44 Master American Blacksmiths are watching you". The
poor guy turned white and became really embarrassed. Of course only
about 1/2 of us were MASTER blacksmiths. But he shouldn't have felt
bad, his work was pretty good and he had his customer base figured out
quite well, we thought.
Anyway, if you look closely at the picture, you can see that there
is a crankshaft with about a 2 inch stroke and a treadle driven by the
guy's tennis-shoed foot. There is a strange shape covering the 12
o'clock to 3 o'clock quadrant of the large pulley. I think it is some
sort of shield, but you get to decide for sure.
It is not my intent to build one. One of our master blacksmith is
having off-hand shoulder problems from the tongs and many years of
cranking the forge blower. (He will not use any modern tools). I just
wanted to offer him an alternative that would take some of the pressure
off his shoulder for a while.
Chilla wrote:
Brave - yea right. His wife would hug him for shopping.
Notice the box on the left (his) on the ground - tennis shoes - and
the wares outside for show and tell. The guy in a suit in the door way -
Simply a guy there looking at a forge with wishful eyes and his lover snapping
a picture of the things she wants.
Martin
Martin H. Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal.
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
The message
from "Martin H. Eastburn" contains these words:
I've done worse.
Perhaps we need to steal a thread from uk.rec.sheds on "Old Enough To
Know Better".
My latest OETKB was thinking that I could get away with "just a tiny
weld" without putting on long trousers and making sure they hang outside
my boots. A nice big blob of spatter went down the front of my boot and
some time later it's still sore 'cos it rubs on my sandals.
And yes, I am OETKB.
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