The Armour Archive

Sasha

The only way to "mend" silicone bronze is to silver-braze it back togetehr, the results are less than stellar. My suggestion would be to gather the peices, glue them togetehr and use them as a press-mould into a tin of muffler-putty. Bake the muffler putty and then cast a replacement in Manganese br...

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If you are willing to pay, then you need to look up BLACKWOODS. Total Tools is a beter bet for finding a price that does not inspire a coronary. BOC gasses will stock them Forget Bunnings and such, they are working on seeing how little they can stock nowadays. My personal favourite source for these ...

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Ah. A cake decorator's hammer.

Sasha

Mine is made by a company called arbo-tech. All one peice instead of rivetting a chainsaw blade to a disk. Scary scary dangerous, but really useful and cool once you get them working for you. I had someone come into my workshop years ago, He fitted it to an angle grinder when I was nto looking and d...

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I used to have five of them, including a modified one I made for myself. that ran 90degree to the others, this let me get angles that would not be possible otheriwse as the arms would bottom out on the work-edge. In my exoerience, the $15 german ones are more than 3 times better than the $5 chinese ...

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I'd check your blade setting, Mr Pitbull. My B2 has no trouble at all with 16ga and even 14ga 316 marine stainless.

It got used for it a LOT for over 2 years, as my business transformed to almost exclusively doing yacht hardware.

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Where in Greater Stormhold are you based? The easiest way to solve this may be to just have you come over and bring the welder and we can spend a couple of hours in the workshop here, at the end of that you will be able to weld armour with an arc welder (I will aslo turn you onto my source of 2mm we...

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OKay, so how much to ship to me in Melbourne, australia?

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Eskimo ninja gypsy. (The stolen away by pirates at an early age goes without saying, of course)

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Wow. All the proportions just work. It is easy to be amazed at the chisel and file/saw work and decorative bits, but the fact is that what makes this helm work is the very fine eye for proportion and flow of line. Okay, I will put it another way. I would rather own this helm than a choice of all but...

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The place that did my laser and water cutting for me had a standard price range that they told the smaller regular customers about. Charge was by the 50centimeter cut length. If you gave him the job with everything to make his life easy and did not mind being on the backburner for up to an 8 week tu...

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I would give them a month to get in touch with you. spend the second month putting out a couple of feelers trying to find them and re-establish contact (don't break yourself doing it, about 20 minutes sendoing some net messages does it with most people). When it hits the 90 day mark, that item is he...

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Walk into any yachting supply store (chandlery), Whitworths should be not too far for you. You are after 2-3 mm SPECTRA cord. It is core and sheath rope and there simply is not anything commercially available that is stronger, less stretchy or better at resisiting reasonable amounts of side-wall abr...

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I have about 6 varieties and four sizes around the place Amateur! :lol: This is a more accurate accusation than you perhaps intended. The best welders I ever worked with on mine sites and specialist production jobs with (the ones who had more skill in one finger-nail clipping then I will ever have ...

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I have a oxy, tig, mig and arc in my workshop....I think there are cob-webs pretty heavily covering everything but the arc welders. If you take the time to get good at it, welding 16ga or even 18ga stainless or mild is no prob with stick. Now admnitedly I use 2mm sticks instead of the standard 2.5, ...

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I made one that totally confused the issue by being in the shape of a breast, complete with nipple... I figured if you were going to be wrong, be really wrong in a clever way.

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Theer are some things brushless motors are not good for. One of them is you bank balance (brushless motors are at least 3 times the pice in small size and more like ten times in larger capacities...I am not even certain that they are possible at all in AC applications, given how they work. Largest b...

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1) the copper will be a smooth surface and not lots of seperate pieces and 2) the motor wont work the contacts are insulated from each other for a reason That was just needlessly cruel. There are a number of "go juice" type lubricants available for DC brushed motors. Far from being a grease, they a...

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<img src="http://studio930.com/jetrefilm_photography/wtf.jpg" width="573" height="324">

Now that there is a picture with something for everybody.

Sasha

Ezy-out extractor
When it breaks off in the hole, you will have something new to swear at and a peice of tool steel harder than drill bits now blocking the work area.

But it is still the right tool.

Sasha

The catch tray right under the buffer wheel like that would drive me insane...other than that, it is lovely.

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From previous patterning experience, Duct-tape is not ideal as it stretches and distorts as it is peeled, it also is "forgiving" of goin g down flat without creases in places that there actually SHOULD be creases to show it is not a perfect fit. I pattern using MASKING tape. Cheap paper masking tape...

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I went through a phase where I contact adhesived fabric linning into all my armour for a few suits. It was nice but I am not convinced it was worth the hassle. A good cloak weight wool will go a long way to making a vambrace or quisse feel like clothing instead of dangly plate. It deadens the noise ...

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Hal, there are probably a couple of hundred hammers made by me around the place. Loads of stakes and at least 60 dishing forms etc. I made lots, gave away many as get started encouragements and sold some (well, quite a few)....And then I stopped. There are a few folks that I could still point at who...

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Entirely possible he is using what Cornelius and I boht used. Home made grit wheels. Take a sissal mop (wheel) and some loose grit, roll the wheel through glue and then roll along a in abrasive grit. You have now made something that may seem like a really expensive and inefficient drum sander...BUT ...

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Sorry, the bolts are a sort of forgivable sin. They let you see how it all operates and the helm is sold subject to you providing your own rivets and decorative washers to match the rest of your kit (I have sent a commission in similar state, with all rivet-positions set with disposable bolts, it ne...

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I have been using my B2 to cut leather and HDPE plastic and a range of other things since the day I got it. Works great, though you do sometimes get oil stains on the leather if you have used a spray of oil for metal work.

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Yachting riggers will have stainless binding wire in various gauges...but it is all either 304 or 316n. Binding wire will be fully annealed, but pricey. getting cable and unwinding will be either tempered or area-normalised depending on gauge and price. My advice would be contacting two suppliers. O...

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Don't joke about it. The cuttler I apprenticed with had his shop at a tourist stop because they gave him free workshop space, power and coal just to have him on "display". Using queensland brown coal meant we got clinkers like champion potatoes even with a side draft forge that was supposed to preve...

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Thye very coolest thing about that for me, and there are many coolnesses to choose from, is that you could get some thick unglazed terracota pavers (NOT CONCRETE!) and have them standing by for when you want to fire the thing up with charcoal, get the tiles stood up vertically or lay them at a 45deg...

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All those and some you have not heard of.

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I have seen some really REALLY bad lamaller! (MY favourite example was by someone that did not understand that it was either laced to itself or attached to an underlying garmet... He just hard rivetted plate to plate to plate.... The result was an iron overcoat with two trap-doors for entrence and e...

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Honestly, take a few minues to compose a good but long post and everyone sneaks in and makes your points while you are writing it....
It's like they all stole my pattern for what I was trying to say.

Hey...!

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Dude, I've seen the patterns you use... I used to think mine were idiocincratic, yours are a swiss cheese recipe unless it is you actually poudning them out. Here's the thing with good patterns, they are like fingerprints. My patterns, by the time that my skill and technique actually got to be worth...

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Blackstone wrote:Summon Dame Selene?

Funny you should mention...

My method is to print a picture of her on the stiffest card possible and sew that into the brim. She works well at stiffening things.