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David - all is not lost!

Photo of one of our smiths teaching an intern in the 1802 Moses Wilder shop.

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And a well equipped shop!
 
I have thought about taking over the forge at our local museum for the living history days. This fall that won't be happening, **** by the time I'm able to there is a good chance they will have already gotten someone else.
 
one of the really great things about youtube actually - that it preserves some of this. I read a couple years ago about a guy deciding that if he was going to eat a 100 mile diet he should try hunting. He was out there with his ipad learning how to dress a deer.
 
Time for a joke; A tourist goes behind the the gate at a Smiths shop. after a minute or so he picks up a horse shoe that had just cooled below red. As he dropped it the smithy say HOT. No the tourist said just does not take me long to look at a horse shoe. In a word of advice! In an auto garage if the owner says keep out do it! It only takes a second for a Mec. to get hurt making sure do not. Madflyer
 
Madflyer said:
Time for a joke; A tourist goes behind the the gate at a Smiths shop. after a minute or so he picks up a horse shoe that had just cooled below red. As he dropped it the smithy say HOT. No the tourist said just does not take me long to look at a horse shoe. In a word of advice! In an auto garage if the owner says keep out do it! It only takes a second for a Mec. to get hurt making sure do not. Madflyer
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Grand Old Opry routine. along with cousin draggin' a chain down th' street... when asked why he was draggin' it, the reply was: "Ever try pushin' one a these things?"
 
Impressive, but what would that cost? And it would only serve the single purpose, unlike the wire hangers you can keep in the boot. Those can be used for a number of duties, like an emergency exhaust hanger or to tie down some errant bit while on the road. :wink:
 
In an emergency, I've even used wire hangers for welding rods after cleaning one up, nice soft steel. :encouragement:

DrEntropy said:
Impressive, but what would that cost? And it would only serve the single purpose, unlike the wire hangers you can keep in the boot. Those can be used for a number of duties, like an emergency exhaust hanger or to tie down some errant bit while on the road. :wink:
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Corvair owner should always carry bailing (baling?) wire to make a field repair when your transaxle falls out after the bolt breaks.
 
PAUL161 said:
In an emergency, I've even used wire hangers for welding rods after cleaning one up, nice soft steel. :encouragement:
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I was reluctant to mention the cheap welding rod substitute, Paul... but I've used 'em for that as well. A quick-n-dirty patch on an ex-girlfriend's 128 Fiat wagon was one instance.
 
pdplot said:
Corvair owner should always carry bailing (baling?) wire to make a field repair when your transaxle falls out after the bolt breaks.
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Funny you mentioned that. My dad and I were setting at a traffic light behind a not so nice Corvair, when the light changed he gunned the engine and popped the clutch, the whole engine and it looked like part of the transmission fell out! He was dead in the middle of the intersection, we didn't stick around to see the aftermath! :highly_amused: Never saw that happen since. Of course, haven't followed another Corvair lately.:encouragement:
 
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