The Armour Archive

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great pic's, also I want his forge

something just big enough to heat small pieces of sheet in.

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thanks guys. I was going to get a rubber mat to put under my dishing stump (it sits on the concrete floor, and the volume is impressive) the desks are wood. but they vibrate like crazy. I think I will have to check all the screws, make sure they are tight. the idea behind the wooden blocks was an at...

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hi all been away from the archive for awhile, but I'm just starting to get back into making armor. I have a few pieces I was working on that I would like to get finished. I am back at university after 2 years of working full time so I am back to being on a budget :(. I also live in a flat with peopl...

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all forges are different, gas can be just as handy as a coal forge sometimes even more so. it all depends on how well you design your forge for your needs. check out this gas forge used by Eric Thing. it would probably be useless for doing smithing work but for heating sheetmetal for hot raising it ...

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is it just me or do your high schools have far too much money?
anyway enjoy your trips, both of you. take lots of pics so the rest of us can share in your travels.

P.S. can you actually walk through the workshop? that would rock.

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cat what are the dimensions of your break drum? looks deep but small in diameter. mine is 10" in diameter and 2" deep. I like your little coal stash. the ducting looks like it is much wider than the nozzle of the hair dryer would be, how does this effect the amount of air being pushed? thanks for th...

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judging by all the differing views on the power of hairdryers I think I will have to wait and see how much air the hairdryer pushes up the tuyre before looking into dimmers or buterfly vaulves. thanks for getting pics mike all pics will help, I might end up making a bigger one further down the track...

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yeah just dont use card/cardboard to pad the jaws of your vicegrips, it will eventually wear through. happened to me.

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hmmm looks like I will have to rig up a butterfly valve at some point. yes cat pics would be helpfull. also pics from anyone else that has a coal forge.

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giving the bands a slight disshing should help them meet up with the browbands and the panels. you have a flat spot on the right hand side of the crossover band. youre brow band looks really wide. did you make the brow band overlap at the back? this might give you a slight gaping in that corner when...

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o_O nice site :P I will have to build a better forge later on. the one I have planned is about as far as my budget will stretch. I have just spent a week off work unpaid with a severe sprained ankle, I had only just started working again too. anyways thanks for all the helpfull advice and links, kee...

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the break drum has a lip but it is about 1/4 inch from the top of the drum. so I figure I make up 4 brackets that will hold the drum inside the hole from the underside of the plate. and have the brackets bolted to the bottom of the drum using the same holes as the flange to save on drilling and cutt...

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thanks brian. I think I will go with the hairdryer for now and investigate an old blower/vac or vaccum cleaner for further down the track. any chance they will be too strong? perhaps I'll have to rig one up with a dimmer switch somehow. 1/4 inch plate not gonna be overkill? or will it get heavily co...

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hi all. I am building a small coal forge for doing some anealing/normalising and a little bit of hot raising. I have gotten a 10 inch brake drum to use as the fire pot and to give it some depth. and plan to make an angle iron frame. I was thinking of having a 20 inch square of 1/8 inch or 1/4 inch p...

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wow zanetto that helm turned out fantastic.
good luck with your helm Armadillo, and please post more pics.
I cant wait to get to the scrapyard and get the last few parts for my coal forge

this thread has turned out to be verry infomative and inspiring.

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first I have no real experience with raising except the few cold raising exepriments that I have done, so I will not offer advice. I will say that what you are doing is what I plan to be doing except I am gonna be using a coal forge and making a bascinet instead of a barbutte. our methods will also ...

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I would just like to add that a dirt cheap jigsaw from a local wallmart or simmilar store will do fine (for at least this project) if you get the right kind of blades. I cut 2mm (14guage) mild with mine and I am still on my first blade after about 4metres of cutting (note not continuous cutting). ge...

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may I sujest making subpages for each category so that you dont load your intire inventory on the homepage?

this means that you can use your index page to explain who you are and what you do.

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nice work finding those. do you think it would be possible to use these to fill an O2 tank so that you can weld with your free Oxygen? there may be a legal issue with you doing it if you cant test the bottles before each re-fill. but you would have an endless supply of Oxygen for welding, cutting an...

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thanks Konstantin
yep direct targeting of the head is not allowed.
also alot of good points to think about while i get more supplies.

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thanks again frieman
if I can find 5mm nails that I can cut down then I will go with that, seeing as I already have the 5mm bolts that i'll need.
the helm is not intended for full contact steel combat, just a precaution for blows that go astray in light combat.

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nice helm WMA. its pretty much what I was thinking except with a neck plate with maile at the back instead of a slat back. was hoping to use it for steel combat. i got the oval shape for the brow band by squeezeing it between my knees, I had to even it out here and there but was easy enough. I think...

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thanks freiman. I should be attaching a pic of the helm with face plate.(used without permission from the original owner) I wanted to have the nasal and front to back band be one piece, if its too light then its no rouble to take off the extra length and put something else on instead. also I wanted ...

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hi I'm attempting a spangenhelm for my first helm and have a few questions. first of all my browband is too round, I was wondering what the best way to make it oval would be? I tried clamping it together and squezing the sides but it came out uneven and i had to make it round again. second question:...

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here you go...
http://www.jousting.co.nz/

they are a part of the IJA, International Jousting Association.
they do alot more than just jousting.

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imperial is 1.6mm metric is 1.5 mm

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the largest problem i can see is the way you flatten youre rings. when you coil youre annealed wire it will work harden and this is enough hardening to give you problems. annealing youre rings will give you a uniform softness so that when flattened they all require the same amount of force to be fla...

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congrats Pad
you gotta post some pics of you in it when it arrives.

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I bought an old hitch ball and they guy threw in a tow ball for free (closing down sale at a second hand tool store). I've ben thinking of flipping the tow ball upside down using the flatspot to weld a support onto and cutting off the threaded stem leaving enough behind to shape with angle grinder a...

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perhaps its time for some of the archive members to put some more patterns on the archive? there is only one sallet patern and its visor is fixed. nce work on the larp helm justin. looking at the profile it appears to need the bottom rear quater of the skull to come back in a bit to make the skull m...

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Horradrick, what size nails do you use for helms?
buying rivets is a huge hassel, I have to get them ordered in as the local stores only have truss tube rivets and they are mostly AL or stainless.

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check out halbreds newbie tool kit if you need tools. may i sujest you get some scrap sheet in thiner gauges and try out some of the easier patterns in the patern library. spaulders are a good start. I started out practising with old computer case. then a friend's father gave me a couple free half s...

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easier to use an angle grinder and a metal grinding disc, a circular saw has a tendency to kickback and cut your arm off. take your angle grinder and lower the leading edge toward the centre of your dish. walk around the stump making a circle. continue for an hour and soon you will have a shallow de...

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yeah I used to drink mt dew, tis indeed a great tasting drop of bat piss. but I heard a rumour that it makes your testicales shrink, so I stopped drinking it. I am a great fan of caffinated beverages, been drinking instant coffe since I was eight. (I'm down to 4%body caffine now) I once did a full p...

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thanks for all the advice guys. kase I sent you a pm with the sizing thanks again for the generouss offer. Konstantin I see your point about making it heavy, strong and portable and I will deffinitly take this into consideration on my next bench as it will be staying in the garage. this one is going...

quieter workshop?

coal forge question.

spangenhelm brow band question