Pictures my Basement Shop

Laredo7mm · Sep 17, 2002

Well, here they are. Some pics of my shop in the basement of my house.

Please excuse the mess, but I have not hasd time to sweep up yet.

Anyway, I am going to try to do this in html, so don't be suprised if it does not work.

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My Shop
 
Yup it is in the Basement, notice the 1200 cfm blower in the
window.  

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The Hammer (2/22/22)
25 Pound Little Giant Trip Hammer.
All the Parts in Grey are new.  The dies are S-7.  2
Hp 3 Phase Motor

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The Anvil (1913)
152 Pound Hay Budden.  All the metal piled up under the
shelf is pure nickel sheet.

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The Grinder
Burr King model 760 with an 8 inch contact wheel.  2 Hp 3
Phase Motor.
The motor against the wall is the 5 Hp Dynamic Converter.

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The Forge
Home made stacked fire brick and Ron Reil style burner. 
18 inches long.
Reaches welding temp with 5 to 10 psi.

<img border="0" src="http://btc-bci.com/~laredo7mm/forge.jpg" width="375" height="500">

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Phillip Jones · Sep 17, 2002

Right nice small shop.

For someone who says they haven't had time to sweep, the floor sure does look clean.

How is the noise thruout the rest of the house when you get to hammering?

Laredo7mm · Sep 17, 2002

I don't know how noisey it is in the rest of the house while I am hammering. I am the only one that lives here.

My nieghbor says that he can "feel" it at his house when i am hammering. So I guess it is pretty loud. Good thing I have good nieghbors, they think I am crazy.

L6steel · Sep 17, 2002

Thanks for the pix Laredo!! I love seeing pix of other maker's shops!

RobertHankins · Sep 17, 2002

Thanks I always love shop pics. You are a brave soul with Propane in the Basement...

Bruce Bump · Sep 17, 2002

7MM, Nice basement shop. I bet that hammer was hard to carry down the steps.

Is that a pile of pure nickel strips in the anvil pic? Ive been looking for some.

Laredo7mm · Sep 17, 2002

Getting the hammer in the basement was the easy part. My daughter's grandpa owns a service center and wrecker service. So he brought over the boom wrecker and lowered it into the basement through the bilco doors (storm cellar doors).

The hard part was cleaning off the 80 years of crud.

One of these days i am going to have the clutch spider and drive wheel poured and bored. It has too much play in it and causes the hammer to run on after you let up on the treadle. Works good though, and it definitely beats drawing out billets by hand. I did that once and it was not pretty.

Matlock · Sep 18, 2002

Great looking setup! I just bought a 50# Meyers Bro.'s hammer and will have to do some rebuilding Too. How much did you spend on all those shiny new gray parts? Did you get those parts from Sid in Nebraska? I'm kinda trying to get a ball park figure going before I call Sid.

Matt Matlock
(The guy with a new hammer, and ants in his pants)

RHINOKNIVES · Sep 18, 2002

and i bet its warm in the winter. i am in s.ca, at the coast. it dosnt get that cool here, but cold and damp enought that i get pnomia or nanonia sp? every winter.

Laredo7mm · Sep 18, 2002

Matlock-

Yup, got the parts from Sid. He is a great guy and runs a class act. I bought the toggle links, knuckles, spring, die key stock, and the upper treadle pivot pin from him. I think all the parts cost me around $300. I made both sides of my old style hammer adjustable.

If you give him a call I know he will send out the parts book to you. He sent me two of them since I lost the first one. He can also tell you when the power hammer was built and tho whom it was originally sold. All you have to do isd give him the serial number.

ddavelarsen · Sep 18, 2002

Ken Simmons was kind enough to give me Sid's number once but I've lost it. Could someone post that for me?

(And pray I don't get the damascus virus!)

Dave

Laredo7mm · Sep 18, 2002

I think this is it:

H "Sid" Suedemier
420 4th Corso
Nebraska City, NE 68410
402-873-6603

rotor · Sep 18, 2002

what type of firebricks did you use for your forge

Laredo7mm · Sep 18, 2002

I used Thermal Ceramics K26 Insulating Fire Brick. They are about $60 for a box of 25 bricks. Check your yellow pages under Refractory or Refractories. They are pretty fragile, so i don't know if yo would want to have them shipped to you. You can cut them with a hacksaw or drywall saw.

Thermal Ceramics Homepage

DaQo'tah Forge · Sep 18, 2002

Hi my Name is DaQo'tah

and Im a very new knife maker, and dont know anything about anything when it comes to much of this stuff, BUT...

But, a basement forge?

a basement GAS Forge!?

ok, ummm, are we all sure about that idea?. I keep thinking that a gas forge is an outdoor kinda thingy, something ment to be vented, something that needs a breeze to blow away the fumes and whatnot...

Just my opinion.

Laredo7mm · Sep 18, 2002

Reference the first picture above....the big shiney thing above the force is a 1200 cfm blower mounted in the window. It does a grat job in venting the room. Well at least the fire alarm does not go off anymore.

I put up some sheet metal on the floor joists ta act as a heat shield. They were getting a little warm.

But hey, the house is insured...

Andrew McLurkin · Sep 19, 2002

Thanks for sharing your shop pics. Nice looking hammer. Just more evidence of "where there's a will there's a way."