No. Spray can, candy-apple red. We used to call it "candy-apple stickum" in contrast to "dog shit" (brown paste in a tube) and "liquid dog shit" (drooly brown goo in a can with a brush. The latter two had the tenacity of something you'd stepped in in the street, hence the name.
My boss has a single tube of blue goo that he would only let us use if nothing else worked. Something he's brought home from England where he worked on aircraft for a couple of years sometime after WW II. Not available in Leftpondia. I forget the name.
Huh. Pits. Sic transit gloria candy-apple-stickum.
We used to use 3M Super Weatherstrip Adhesive, aka Elephant Snot, on rocker cover gaskets, with grease betwixt the cork/rubber/fiber gasket and the head. It gets its name is from its texture, as it's a nice bright yellow and is drippygooeystinky.
Yeah, sorta rings a bell, but it was expensive, wasn't it? I think that's why I don't remember using it much. No tengo mucho dinero!
RE: crack: Some mother's idiot stepchild got impatient. Pity! Did you braze it up and fit another spring valve on it?
Stupendous crash pics yet?
Hey, she dresses up nicely. Too bad you couldn't extend the rails for the hammer and pop the Deutz up on those, in-line with the hammah.
Do you have rails into the yard, so you can accept rail cars full of coal for the forge to heat large chunks of iron to use in the hammer?
Left the crack alone. Seems OK. Yes, fitted a new reed (from old flat bedspring) where one was missing, cleaned the existing one.
No. Cobbled up a steering lock and external throttle lever. And replaced the whole thing with (a) Wisconsin 4, NFG, (b) flatbelt drive from read end of an old truck (NFG, oscillating load is all wrong for flatbelt) and (c) Diesel, which works fine.
Magnets on flywheel and bicycle speedo sensor calibrated to be a tach as the engine tach is unreliable.
Didn't realize the possibility when the concrete was poured and the (wooden) rails installed.
Hah! No. I have 2 or 3 tons of coal on hand, my eye on a couple of tons of coke that will need to be crushed some. Actually, it's a bummer that there's never been a siding anywhere near me with a drive-under hopper car unloader. A carload of coal would have had to come to a siding in a gondola car and be unloaded by hand. Now they've torn op the tracks and there's no rail head closer than 70 miles.
Built a portable forge with 4 tuyere holes so's to be able to take a longer heat (i.e. more length hot at once), design a variant of one developed by the late Gerry Levy. Installed a jib crane (no pics yet) so's to be able to hold a heavy work piece with one hand and a top tool with the other. Working on bolt-on or clamp-on die mods. Actually forge something Real Soon Now. ;-)
Further ObMetalworking: I swapped a working 100# mechanical hammer:
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with which I made a lot of anchors, graplins and assorted stuff for the non-working 300# A&O. I have a 25# Jardine -- Canadian knock-off of Little Giant -- that has less gumpties than the #100 Palmer but is more versatile.
Sounds as if you've been at this for a long while.
Then again, it may not have worked as well in the opposite rotation.
Yeah, too bad. I think I'd rather buy a dump truck full than to hand shovel tons of it at a time.
This decade, eh?
That's more the size I've seen. When I lived in Vista, California, I used to visit the Antique Steam and Gas Engine Museum. I think their big one was 50#, and you could feel it in your bones when it worked. It was a mechanical, working from a steam-driven communal shaft. Coal is bad, but coke is something I'm glad I don't smell all the time. I'd make a lousy blacksmith, what with my pure lungs and all. ;)
Yeah, I can't imagine working on something which needed a 300# hammah. Oh, my aching back...
Installed 2003. Expected to be running 2004. In my semi-retired, too-laid-back and low-budget way, it was 2012 before it ran properly, So yes.
Maybe even this *year*! ;-)
Thre are lots of 25#, 50# and 100# hammers out there in use. Some mechanical 250#, but once you get to that size, if you have a prosperous business with crdit and cash flow, whether industrial or artistic, a modern self-contained airhammer is way better than the behemoth oldtimers such as mine. Much, much better for ornamental free-hand forgings.
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