The Armour Archive

The Iron Dwarf

thanks,
this item will be on sale at Torm in a couple of weeks along with a few other oddities I have obtained

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halberds is a poster on here, look in the armour design forum for any of his posts, he has a thread on sabatons at the moment here.
pitbull armoury hosts details of Hals tools on his website so also look for pitbull here, both are very helpful

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I think they are separate as pitbull bid $10 on the belt to start it.

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I dont need one but will push the bidding up to $15 for pitbulls c belt

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found 2 of these and am thinking of possibilities, there are wear parts from the buckets of loading shovels and are hard http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/hodgesaargh/Image008-4.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/hodgesaargh/Image009-3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/hodgesaa...

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maybe you could auction it so someone else could trip over it

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for cast iron you need to use stick and special rods to weld it

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looks interesting, am sure the hive-mind here can help with that

I cut cast with plasma though it does not do a very smooth job of it or a cutting disc on a grinder

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there was a thread about nuts and bolts here quite a while ago inc how to make them by hand IIRC

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Us dwaves dont bother much with language and use any avaliable except for swearing in. this tool should be going off for testing next weekend, I have been told that the hole and slot and sharp back end may be usefull too so they are being left as is. a couple of small gussets are being added to wher...

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another couple of pix but they still dont show the nice curvature on the toe. I have someone who will try this out and post a picture when done, did not plug the hole but can do that later if they want http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/hodgesaargh/Image013-1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/album...

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will get it ready to be tried out soon and there will be pix
I think I will plug the round hole up

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I know it is a wear part from something agricultural but dont know what.
have seen them quite often but only just thought about using them.

can easily plug the hole or cut them if required

maybe I will polish it a bit and get some better pix tommorow

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its a bit narrow for a sabaton tool I think about 10" long about 2 3/4" wide about 1" thick with a nice radius on top though it does not show up well here. picked up a few of these today at the local scrapyard, they are hard. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/hodgesaargh/Image008...

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cant get you spain but can offer portugal with a possible future option on gibraltar too at a good price

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things like filings sticking to it would mean it is not smooth enough for planishing. I have not had anything get magnetised by using it is any particular orientation but I do get a lot of things that are already magnetised and it can be a problem, you can easily make a demagnetiser, electro magnets...

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we have two large grinders at my place, one is single ended and the other is double ended, they both take 24" wheels 3" thick but we dont have enough people to feed them

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ad infinitum till you are either mad, or become Hal or Jiri...

maybe it is best to start off mad then through armouring you can aproach sanity from the other side

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thanks for the info guys, I will pass it on. the reason for this is not because I needed something made from the Ti but I did get a few sheets at a local scrapyard at a very good price and am selling it to anyone who wants it, a friend who wanted to see what he could do with it is into wheeling and ...

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when you start out you will need hundreds of tools and would rather buy them than food for your family
the more experience you get the less you need and there is at least one person here who could make better looking armour than you can imagine using just a rock and some hard ground

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many thanks losthelm

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can anyone tell me about this?
I have some GR2 sheet 0.02" thick I wanted to form,
had a friend using an english wheel on it and he says it needs anealing.
we found a tempreture but nothing about quenching or how long to allow slow cooling for.

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another option is to find someone locally to do welding for you or who will let you use their kit.
the local welding shop may be interested because it is armour you are making and will do it at a reasonable cost

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welcome to the madhouse think, plan and discuss for a long time before you start making anything as changing your mind may waste materials, an extra day asking the experts here can save you a lot. most things can be got mail order. there are probably people nearby who are doing the same or similar o...

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safety gear, a dishing stump, a selection of hammers ( reshape old ones )
a shear of some kind, a punch or drill, safety gear, vice grips and other clamps ( you can never have enough ), grinder, cardboard and sharpies.
lots of metal to practice on, safety gear

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to put a picture in a post you need to first host it somewhere, I use photobucket.com, under each picture you put there are several lines of code ( after you move your mouse over the pic ) copy the line that begins with 'IMG' and paste it in here with your text. or if hosting in your own webspace us...

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I hope you will post a few pix of estrella and what you do there Thomas. in early april I am taking my forge to an event known as the 'history boot camp' just north of London for a weekend, it wont be an authentic set up but will give a lot of people in reenactment a chance to have a go, including s...

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here is mine the shank is 20mm square ( about 3/4" ) so it should fit your anvil Hal, the stop is a disc 10mm thick and 45mm diameter ( about 3/8" and 1 3/4" ) and I will add a sleeve to the shank for larger hardy holes. the ball on this one is about 40mm ( 1 1/2" ) http://img.ph...

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have checked the anvils at work, they mostly have 1 1/4" hardy holes though they vary a bit and we have a few 1" as well

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a charcoal forge is probably harder to control, you will need a lot less air unlike the coke I use, I am only a begginer at forgework ( I mainly make forges and tools rather than use them ). others on here may be able to help you more with the proper use of a charcoal forge than I can. WD40 the well...

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some use charcoal in forges in case that is easier to get.
a plasticiser makes the wax softer and easier to spread, a solvent like white spirit may help.
you want it like a wax furniture polish or maybe a car wax polish so you can apply it easily

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I have at events been asked for tools with a stop collar for use in a hardy hole but have not made them except the odd one to order because I cant carry a set of tools without the collar and one with due to the weight and whatever tools I did would not be the ones the customer wanted, I think I will...

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have blackened stainless with sulphuric acid in the past but not intentionally

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maybe someone needs to start with an 8 year old and see what happens by 2019. there are various things I make without patterns often using odd things to get consistency like the 'notched stick' mentioned above, a short piece of angle that is laying on my bench is used for at least 20 different thing...

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to spread the load a large thick washer that will go over the shank and above that either very heavy 1 1/2" square tube ( probably close to 1" inside welded all round would work ro a thick round tube with the 4 sides flattened, also weld to washer. have not done any but may offer it as an ...

useful shape for a tool?

wonder what I can make from this chunk

anealing Ti