forging pic's

Cool Louis, thanks for sharing! Hot metal/forging pics are the coolest! :)

That milk can forge is freaking cool as hell! My dad has some of those, but he'd probably kill me if I "borrowed" one ;)
 
NickWheeler said:
Cool Louis, thanks for sharing! Hot metal/forging pics are the coolest! :)

That milk can forge is freaking cool as hell! My dad has some of those, but he'd probably kill me if I "borrowed" one ;)
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I was thinking the same thing about how cool it was
 
Thanks guys, I lined the milk can forge with cast-o-lite 26 and it frekin cranks out some BTU's. The top comes off just below the handles so I can scrape out the flux and scale once in a while. That thing is quite heavy +/- 60 lbs. In less than 40 minutes I turned 8" of 1.5" cable into 12" of 1/4" x 1.5" flat stock. I have to admit that got tired of swinging that 6 pound sledge hammer with one hand :D. I don't have Nicks arms...I haven't seen the inside of a gym in over 5 years..:o
 
Yeah, I was rummaging around looking at my little stock of forging steel the other day and found a nice hunk of cable too. Can you give a quick rundown of the process for making it into a billet? And Yeah, that milk can forge is cool. ;)

What are gonna make out of this?
 
Thanks for the comments on the forge, I like it too. The anvil is home made, I welded 400lbs of steel plate together and added a piece of forklift fork that I had heat treated to 48RC for the top. I do the cable like everyone else does. Weld or wire the ends together and add a handle if you like. I just hold on to one end. Make sure that the forge is hot enough(I have a pyrometer attached to mine) and running the correct atmosphere (yellow flames shooting out the door). I don't bother with cleaning the cable first, I just stick it in the forge and let it come up to temp. As it heats up I will flux the cable with 20MT borax 2 or 3 times. I have a pipe clamp and a monkey wrench ready to go while the cable is heating up. When the flux looks like melted butter and is dancing around I pull the cable out and clamp one end into the pipe clamp and use the monkey wrench to twist the cable as tight as I can. When I can no longer twist it I release the clamp and slam the cable as hard as I can on top of the anvil. Slamming the cable flat on the anvil does 2 things for me, it knocks all of the slag off of the cable and it straitens it back out. I repeat this fluxing twisting and slamming untill I can't twist the billiet any more. Then I will heat, flux and hammer the cable in a twisting motion following the strand lay several times (I am smacking it with a 4-6lb sledge at this point ( I am using big cable). After several heat of this the cable should look like a solid round rod. Now just forge it into flat stock and shape your blade. Have fun...
 
I have to agree that is one of the coolest ideas for a forge I have seen in a long time.Now I gotta look around the scrap yard to find something cool to build my new oil burning forge from.

Great pics of the cable also.

Bruce
 
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