The rigorous testing has ben completed and it is now certified as a shot glass. Although there is a bit of a frying pan aftertaste.
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37Any hobby machinists or blacksmiths?
by BrentR ini was curious if there are any hobby blacksmiths or machinists on jwd?
for me it's a hobby and part time business and would like to find out if anyone enjoys it as much as i do.
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American Chopper
American Hot Rod
Deadliest Catch
All of the biker build off series
The rest of the time I am in my shop building stuff, making big messes and alot of noise.
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Any hobby machinists or blacksmiths?
by BrentR ini was curious if there are any hobby blacksmiths or machinists on jwd?
for me it's a hobby and part time business and would like to find out if anyone enjoys it as much as i do.
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Any hobby machinists or blacksmiths?
by BrentR ini was curious if there are any hobby blacksmiths or machinists on jwd?
for me it's a hobby and part time business and would like to find out if anyone enjoys it as much as i do.
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I just finished my iron shot glass. The iron is from a pre-Civil War tall ship anchor chain. The chunk had a bit of curve to it so I had to forge it into a better cylinder shape to get it into the lathe chuck. After it was machined and polished I etched it in ferric chloride and then in acetic acid. Back then they were not able to refine all of the silicas out of the iron ore so acid etching will disolve some of the iron but not touch the silicas. This results in the iron having a grain somewhat like wood.
Now I have to test it for leaks by filling it up and emptying it several times. Some single malt scotch should have just the right specific gravity to make the tests as accurate as possible.
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Ultimate Journey - Human Glider -
by AK - Jeff insimply amazing - hold onto your heart with this one!!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3e_8hzh7o0.
enjoy.. jeff .
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That is very cool!
This guy has doen something similar except with two small jet engines.
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Any hobby machinists or blacksmiths?
by BrentR ini was curious if there are any hobby blacksmiths or machinists on jwd?
for me it's a hobby and part time business and would like to find out if anyone enjoys it as much as i do.
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I hope you get a chance some day soon to get some metal shop machinery and start designing and building. For me it's not a hobby it is how I keep my sanity and it's my only creative outlet. I sell some specialized tooling to make some spare change sometimes but I never want to ruin a hobby by turning it into a business.
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Albums, Tapes, or Videos You Had to Throw Away?
by WTWizard inthere are so many songs that the watchtower society says are "bad".
they are the ones that hint on sexual immorality, violence, drugs, or that have reference to devil worship.
or the ones that have swearing in them, which seems to be common these days.. what really gets me is how they find such petty things wrong with songs that they basically want to clean out your whole library and make you listen to kingdumb s*** all the time.
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My mom pitched out my KISS and AC/DC albums. But later on I bought some used Beach Boys albums that I used the covers to hide my new KISS and AC/DC albums. So when my mom went through my collection she never found them.
Never mind that most of her favorite artists were also drug users, drunks and "immoral".
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Any hobby machinists or blacksmiths?
by BrentR ini was curious if there are any hobby blacksmiths or machinists on jwd?
for me it's a hobby and part time business and would like to find out if anyone enjoys it as much as i do.
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Thanks! And yes that is one I forged.
Stephanus I built a small turbine engine from a used semi truck turbo charger. There are alot of plans on the net for various types of home built jet engines using different turbo chargers. This one is extremely loud and fairly dangerous to run. The intake compressor on the turbo will spin at 110 to 120,000 RPMs and I could only imagine if a piece of that cast aluminum decided come off at full throttle. I have never attempted to mount it on anything and it's total run time is less then ten minutes. But it was fun and challenging to buildand did not require any fancy tooloing.
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Any hobby machinists or blacksmiths?
by BrentR ini was curious if there are any hobby blacksmiths or machinists on jwd?
for me it's a hobby and part time business and would like to find out if anyone enjoys it as much as i do.
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Wow! I would have never touched that or done anything to it except find a museum to put it in. I aquire alot of very old iron and steel scraps but I would never alter or use anything with any historic value.
Sixofnine, there's still a few people around the country that are keeping the craft alive and it's great for people to see and learn how it was done "old school".
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Board Demographics
by snowbird inmaybe this thread has already been started before.
please forgive me if it has, but i would like to know how many on board are active witnesses, inactive, da/df''d, or never been witnesses.. i am inactive since 2005, black female, separated, head of household, etc.. rsvp.
snowbird.
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White male, married with one daughter and faded over 20 years ago. I have not been to a hall since my grandmother's memorial six yers ago. Moving congregations is a very easy and effective way to fade.
The last ime I was out in field service I knocked on doors for two hours without a single door being opened even though everyone was home. That is when I realized that I was wasting my time, time that could be spent fishing and hiking. Even clipping my toenails would be more exciting then service.
