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Krag

If someone has some aluminum dust, we can have some fun with the oxide

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Krag

No problem! I'm willing to bet a few spontaneousy armoured combat situations arise! We have a nice creek begging for a bridge battle! Half the fun of armouring is hearing the oohs and ahhs! Round Rock....there will probably be a couple others from out that direction coming. I'll start a list this we...

Krag

It might be 327. This comes as a cold worked sheet. I could wear a hole through it with 20 ga, I can't imagine 16ga. It tends to look like polished 304. I got some scraps way back and tried to use them...but never could due to the pain of drilling. Funny thing is that it bends pretty readily. I'm gu...

Krag

Evil_Merlin wrote:Project cancelled by death...

Ouch.

Huh?

Krag

Start with a pewter chalice and add some nickle silver plates with whatever gilding or etching and such you want. Pewter ought to be easy (relatively speaking) to inlay panels into. Gold leaf, real or imitation, will stick well to clean nickle silver. Maybe get some stone/gem cabachons as well and i...

Krag

everything you wanted to know about aluminum:
http://www.tennalum.com/AATT.htm

Fully tempered??
If you wanted a T1 treatment and completed the appropriate steps, wouldn't that also be "fully tempered" for the particular treatment?

Just felt like being a smart-ass this morning.

Krag

Bring it to the armour-in in June. We can blow it up.

Krag

Just wanted to boink it back to the top...

Boinking is more fun than bumping

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Krag

Professional rocket scientist....hobby dumbass.

Krag

Nevermind...I'm a dumbass, I thought you were Ted when I first read the post above. Yes, I got the message

. I haven't had a chance to reply yet.

Krag

I have an AA mailbox? I only have one message in my private messages from someone else. If you sent it to krag@kragaxe.com, I'm having problems accessing my account right now and haven't read it in over week. dhalterstopthespam@tamu.edu works though if you take out stop the spam. I just can't rcieve...

Krag

Ted Banning wrote:Is there anyone coming who specializes in Leather Armour? This is about the only topic we don't have covered.

You could shoot these guys a call...
http://www.bruteforceleather.com/Scripts/default.asp

Krag

No problem, I found what I was looking for on-line at a natural fiber cord/braid/ribbon dealer. I was looking for alternative material for ito (Japanese blade handle wrappings) and the bonniebraid had a neat weave to it.

Krag

Will the bonniebraid lay flat if stretched over something flat?

Krag

what type of welding is best for armouring? The kind that you are best at . I learned on a TIG when i worked down at NASA. I got really good at it and plan on buying one sometime in th enot too distant future. I can do tolerable work with a MIG. My dad has a miller 180-something. I own a stick(ac/d...

Krag

I looked up my receipt...it was 263 lbs, not 163. using Gaston's chart, it calculates to ~260. My mistake

. They never feel that heavy to me. Probably because I've just been lifting something ~200lbs just before!

Krag

Three 4' x 4' sheets of 18 ga is 110lbs? That doesn't seem right. I got about 15 sheets of 1050 (0.032") @24" x 50"and a couple of 1095 (0.030") @ 30" x 60" and the whole thing was 163lbs ( I think...it's been a while). Shipping/handling from Chicago to TX was $60 (skid fee plus freight).

Krag

Well, it's a sealed deal. I'll be taking a load of gas cylinders today through wednesday each evening. I'm not sure exactly how many there are. To cover costs associated with the armour-in, I'm thinking of a couple raffles (dishing domes and a separate one for a propane forge). This would allow for ...

Krag

We have a dial-up service with compuserve and could probably move the computer into a different room. Hopefully by June, we'll have the craft room cleaned out and renovated with the computer and my library in there. It's a 20' x 20' room. Edric, When did you send it? I get about 70 per day from spam...

Krag

I might have some party favors for the armour-in. I think I just scored about 20 of the old gas cylinders with the smooth dished base. I have to verify what was originally in them first. Most should have been inert gases, but there are four that sure look like a chlorine configuration. I won't know ...

Krag

When I get the page up, it will have all the needed info. I'll post the url here, once it's created.

EDIT:
Here's the page for info: Pics are not uploaded yet.
http://www.100megsfree3.com/kragaxe/eve ... xas04.html

Krag

Hey Dan, I started lining the refractory in this past weekend. I have all the parts for the burners. Now it's just a matter of assembly. I want to finish a new propane forging furnace first, though. That one will be done next weekend. I'm taking detailed pics along the way on both. I'll have several...

Krag

I saw a pretty neat one at the Gulf war last year. I might have a pic of it somewhere. I think they said they used sections of neoprene cut out and glued together to shape the head. Overton, huh!? You don't work at the TAMU/TAES ag-extention site there do you? I go up there a couple times per year t...

Krag

Thanks for the kind words. I want to do a couple langseaxes in more traditional pattern designs this summer. I'll be setting up the base and such for my Anglo/saxon smelting furnace this weekend to go along with it! Hopefully it'll be functional by the armour-in in June! I. Irish, This one is going ...

Krag

Finished up one I've been working on for a while now. The blade is about 11" long, 1 5/8" wide, 3/16" thick. It's a san-mai construction with the outermost patternwelded section being 1084 and some air-hardening steel(was supposed to have been 15n20...but obviously wasn't). The next more contrasting...

Krag

Sasha, I was thinking the same thing! Silicosis...a nusiance disease .! I'll be sure and run that one by our IH guy! No metal dust or fume is good for you. Some are worse than others, but none are good. Avoid breathing them. You'd have a hard time making a dangerous concentration dust cloud by hand ...

Krag

Here's the thread on it:
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=27849

Krag

College Station is only 12 hrs from Albuquerque! Come one down to Central, TX in June!

Krag

Sweet. Another Armour In. It will probably be closer to the time to know if I/We can come or not. We have a lot to catch up on! And I think you still have a knife of mine I might also want to talk about commissioning one from you. I'll shoot you an email sometime today. Congrats on the little one b...

Krag

verminaard wrote:end of june is spot on for me. Hopefuly I will just be returning from Italy with pics to share...

Be sure and get them on CD so we all can make copies

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Krag

Dan, Nope, I'm making my own. I'm starting with a 1.5 Hp motor geared down to about 20 ft/min with a frame being made from lovely scrapyard finds ! We have a great scrouger's paradise scrap yard here. Yes, you can do heat treating. I have a couple different oils. Pre-assembled is fine...just don't u...

Krag

Hal, Yes, I used to use HCl. I don't like storing it though. No matter how tight the lid is, everything within a couple feet of the storage location seems to rust! To keep it out of reach of my son I have to keep it up high which means everything below is subject to rusting. Related note....I have a...

Krag

I'll pencil that in as the date then and start getting a little more details going.

Morgan,
Be sure and bring those knees down

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Krag

Frederich's essay is pretty much spot on! The only thing I would add is that once you dish a piece of hot rolled, it is effectively the same as cold rolled, just like heating a piece of cold rolled to cherry red renders it normalized. The only time you see an appreciable difference in strength betwe...

Krag

Any preference on dates? These are what I have open:

June: 11-13
18-20
25-27

July: 23-25
30-01(Aug)

I could do August also...but it's awfully dry(but humid) and hot then!

Re: welding

seax