The Armour Archive

The Iron Dwarf

many would have given up trying to clear a backlog with half the problems you have had matt but you are a better person. I hope things start going better for you now and that you can do what you want when you want. I am sure that any item you feel like making would have no trouble getting sold and i...

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talk to those there who make armour like Matt B from on here, or ash from lhuk forums and there will be many there including some from poland and other eastern european countries, ask them what tools they would use to make the items they are selling. if buying a tool from someone take it to one of t...

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At least we have beer

but is your beer historically correct?

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lots of patience in order to do a good job more metal to replace bits you make a mess of ( get at least 4 times as much as needed ) something to planish on like a ball or mushroom stake and a selection of hammers ( make sure they all have a very fine finish on the working surfaces as every mark will...

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there are many great armourers here, all have their own specialities. some more authentic and some less some good functional armour that is not pretty and some that looks great. I know very little about it so cannot advise much except from what I hear with rough from the hammer it seems you can get ...

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think I will see if I can fit a 2" ball bearing to the head of an old hammer, have a few cheap metal shafted brick hammers which could be modified maybe and will see if people here want to buy them.
I do keep getting asked for hammers of different types
if popular I will make more

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on a press I find it easy to do a deep dish in 6mm 1/4" thick stuff but harder to work thin stuff. I have a dishing form on a flypress at the moment to dish some 3mm 1/8" brass for a customer and first tests are good. you may want to do a shallow dish, then aneal it then do it a bit deeper...

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eye protection first, they are easy to damage and hard or impossible to repair. tin snips are good look anywhere selling second hand tools for interesting hammers or an anvil and stake tools make a stump, there are several ways to do it and most take time. make a shot bag out of an old pair of jeans...

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here it went up about a month ago, some of it by 20 to 25%

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keep doing the fun stuff as well as the historical stuff

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you got funds

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looks great, any idea what shipping would cost to here PB

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welcome to the nut house. it is now too late for you to escape, you will be bashing metal for all eternity here. nice work for a first piece, there are many tutorials in the archive covering just about everything, there are people here to make a wide range of items from all sorts of materials. whate...

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the thread may well be a M14 as used on most 4 1/2" and bigger grinders so try the nut from a normal grinder or try a worn out disc on a normal grinder to see if it fits

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only use wheels that fit properly, dont bodge it with a nut and washer. GRINDERS CAN BITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! here we can get diamond wheels for stone and concrete, dont know how well they work or how long they last but should be good cant find them at the moment but will get you a link when at work...

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maybe you need to try a different sort of blade in it losthelm, one particular sort works well for me, the end is more of a V and it does both sides of the metal in one go.
I find it very good for small round holes in 1/8 steel

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I would use a file or grinder to get the edge level and even then probably a Noga deburring tool like the popular large blue handled one rather than the thin pen style ones and an S30 blade in it for heavy duty stuff and it does both sides at once. most stuff I do is thicker than armour and often ju...

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here every town has them some have over 1000 sellers and you can get some bargains. often in a farmers field, a local park or a parking lot. every sunday I go to a couple of local ones at about 6.30 unless I am at a different event today I am going to check on belt suppliers for it as the scotchbrit...

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why not just weld it. we do cast iron welding all the time and with good rods it is easy. use the nickle based rods, they cost a bit but do the job unlike the cheap ones, vee out the areas to be welded and you will need to pre heat it, clamp it well and tack it in several places , weld it all and le...

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go on, you know you want too.
just sell a few members of your immidiate family

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found this one at a local car boot sale, dont know if you have them over there or what you would call them where people bring all thier junk and lay it out on the ground in a field or car park for others to buy, normally early on a sunday morning. I know the seller and his business involves buying a...

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yes Hal, im iron dwarf in most places now here is a link to join if you want http://uk.ebid.net/perl/normal.cgi?ref=52487&mo=register-main its free as a buyer as a normal seller it is 3% FVF as seller + you get 5 free pix, 5 free stores and can sell for free but to be seller + means upgrading at...

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well if you ask a question of those who run it you get an answer from a real person within a few hours normally instead of something automated that bears no resemblance to your question. I had cannon shot and grenado's removed by ebay coz they said they were banned and asked on ebid because it looke...

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dont know the price there but here it is not far short of $1000 and the scotchbright belts are $15 each

I will find better prices here soon for the belts

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done a quick search and have found it on the web
here for the model I have got.

us dealers us dealers

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have made a couple of smaller tools like those shown by Galfrid, one of them was to try out a new polishing tool and will use the big pipe fittings soon and see if people like them enough to buy them. for the big ones I will check the price of them before deciding how much to sell them for as I expe...

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will give you all the details when I am at work tomorrow, will try to get a picture of the makers plate if my camera will do it.

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I did think of that.
it came with zirconium belts and 3 scotchbrite belts.
have only tried it out once but with a fine zirconium belt it seems a bit aggresive on mild steel, I expect it will be better on harder stuff or with more worn belts

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just tried out a new toy I bought last week, its second hand but I had not seen one before. a slack belt hand held sander for pipework and round stuff. the rollers are spring loaded on it and the motor unit is similar to a 5" grinder and is 1320 watts nearly 2 HP http://img.photobucket.com/albu...

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I dont have the skills needed to work on armour or other sheet metalwork, normally 3mm / 1/8" is the thinnest I work with so the answers I get here help me a lot. I often start making something out of things I find or have laying around and if people here like them I put them on sale, if they s...

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Hi Craig at most events I do I sell a range of tools, many more than you see on my website or on ebid, I dont normally do a kit as everyone wants different things I am not so good at polishing as Hal so a lot of stuff that does not start out polished goes to the customer for them to finish to thier ...

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well it is 4" inside and I have seen bigger but not bothered with them until now.
will cut up one each way

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was just looking at some large weld elbows for steel pipe ( 4 1/2" OD and 1/4" thick ) and I thought they could be used for making interesting shapes http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/hodgesaargh/DCP_1733.jpg cutting it along the chalk marks to make 2 tools from one fitting you would ...

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I supply ballstakes and balls on their own up to 4" diameter made from through hardened high carbon steel ( yes they are ball bearings ) I could get 9" but they would cost a LOT. I recently sold a 9" ball stake for about $150 and that was an old lump not something brand new. in plain ...

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its a good distance from me, LH forum is likley to be your best bet

new toy :)

tool idea