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Ed Caffrey's Workshop Talk to Ed Caffrey ... The Montana Bladesmith! Tips, tricks and more from an ABS Mastersmith. |
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Always have a bottle of super glue remover on hand.... you know why...
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...And an open container of Q-tips or brushes to allow you to use the bottle of glue remover when you accidentally glue said remover bottle to your other hand... Don't ask how I figured that one out! Well, okay, got the thick stuff all over the fingers of one hand and managed to get the hand off the handle before it set up. So far so good. Grabbed bottle of remover with good hand, remembered just in time NOT to glue the lid to the sticky hand, and, in a stroke of sheer brilliance, switched the bottle to the sticky hand. Didn't notice until I'd got the lid off with the clean hand and then couldn't put the bottle down. |
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You all made my day...Of course i have never done anything like that........carl......But where do the scars come from?...........
__________________ carl |
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if you accidently get a spark on you loose muslin buffing wheel, an easy way to stop the smouldering is to turn on the buffer.
__________________ Bill Burke ABS Master Smith 2008 Last edited by Burke; 06-08-2008 at 08:26 AM. |
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don't use a paper towell to wipe off a blade that you have just taken out of the low temp salt.
__________________ Bill Burke ABS Master Smith 2008 |
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don't try to wipe the hot salt off of you fingers on your pants.
__________________ Bill Burke ABS Master Smith 2008 |
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Don't use plastic trays to set hot parts on, they sink into it and are hard to remove.
Don't mount your buffers downstream of your grinder. ALWAYS have an extinguisher handy. Don't set your coffee above your parts trays, it will spill sooner or later. Make sure your dogs can not reach your antler handle materials, they become expensive snacks.(snake skins too) I'll add a cute story of me working out in my shop one morning about 3 AM by myself, grinding away. All of a sudden I hear whistling and I am alone, it was not me. Thinking I was no longer alone, I turned off all power and lights, grabbed my bat and proceeded to check out the grounds, found nothing. When I cam back into my shop I heard the whistling again, now I'm freaked. With a thousand thoughts running thru my head I can not figure this one out, suddenly a voice on the radio laughs and appologizes for the silence and said she was looking for more music and didn't realize "we" could hear her whistling in the background. |
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I was wiping down a blade that I had just finished the final grind on with WD40 when I forgot that this particular one had two edges and I lost track of where my thumb was. Two hours later in the ER they finally got it to stop bleeding long enough to put a dressing on.
Doug Lester __________________ If you're not making mistakes then you're not trying hard enough |
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If it is CA and says Flash Glue - dries in 3 to 5 seconds, just believe it. It's embarassing to have your wife (anyone for that matter ) come into the shop and find you with your hand glued to the seat of your pants. Dries to fast to wipe it off -- STUCK!
Make sure that shop vac has the hose plugged into the correct port - want vacuum, not a blower, had trouble breathing for a bit after that. And why did I buy a shop vac that draws 12.5 amps, dang thing draws as much current as my wood bandsaw. I have to keep track of what circuit breaker it's plugged into. Do not use super glue to close a cut after cleaning it (likely unsafe anyway). Murphy's law says you will bump it in your sleep and spring a leak. My wife wants to go shopping for new sheets. Also a tetnus shot for me and a cracked bone in my thumb. I just taped it cause it never hurt that bad. __________________ Hukk |
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Power Twist Belts
If you get one of those Power Twist drive belts take note that the little tabs that you put through the other links to hold the belt together go on the inside of the belt. It only took me two weeks to figure out that I was trying to run the grinder with the belt turned inside out. Howcumzit when I have a 50/50 chance of getting it right I get it wrong 90% of the time .
Doug Lester __________________ If you're not making mistakes then you're not trying hard enough |
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When you need a bucket of water to cool blades as you grind, don't use your wifes house cleaning bucket. The first time I put the blade in it to cool it off, it punctured a hole in the bottom. It took me a while to see the puddle forming under me since I was grinding sitting on a tall stool. OOPs, I threw it away and confessed to her, her answer was
Fred |
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Did you know the plastic bottle that charcoal lighter fluid comes in is biodegradable? I didn't until I heard the cracking sound and watched a quart or so pour into my homemade charcoal forge. Left it on the back porch all winter.
Did you know that a home forge powered by a 1/2 HP motor on a 10" squirrel cage blower sounds just like a F-16 on full afterburners when you light it with a quart of lighter fluid in it? It does! And it shoots a 4 foot flame out the top too. Did you know that a 4 foot turbine powered flame has the unfortunate tendency to warp PVC sheet roofing? Who would have thought! Oh well. I didn't like that awning anyway. Think I'll go with galvanized the next time. chiger, |
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Thank goodness there are some canarys in this here coal mine!
Thanks for the laugh guys... -d |
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Never Put A Bag Of Oooo Steel Wool Behind Your Bench Grinder. It Will Catch A Spark And Burn Like Hell.
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Wear protective clothing, like a flack vest.
Never stick the point of a knife into the side of a contact wheel,exspecially if the grinder is running. |
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