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Sasha

errr.... Can I plead that my brain was in the bahamas when I wrote that? Actually, my brain was cooking at 42C when I wrote that. Actually, I just made a stupid mistake. Sorry. I am very *upset* about it. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Sasha What happened to the post modernism of inventi...

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I do not want your child....but I will disucss whitney punches. MY OPINION. If you are only going to own one punch. Make it a genuine Roper Whitney. If you want a bunch of punches laying around the workshop so you do not need to keep changing punches and dies.....Make one of them a RW and the rest c...

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Yeah. I met one of those while I was working a contract at APM. The APM machine also had a self sharpening jig for the wood cutting blades. Very nifty. Very expensive....and a little uncomfortable when a saw blade is down to its second last sharpen and is about 1/4 of the width that it should be and...

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It is quiet and hand operated (independent of power points). It does not vibrate all over the place like a jigsaw when the blade *nearly* needs changing. I does not throw crap all over the workshop. It offers a great deal of precision (so does a jigsaw, but you need to take the time to learn to use ...

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I got started in armouring when I found the SCa in my first year at Uni. There was an established workshop based in my barony. It belonged to our then Warlord, and he held regular and frequent armouring sessions that he hosted with a great deal of enthusiasm and dedication (the like iof which has no...

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I built a metal cuttin band-saw for armouring about 6 years ago. It was quiet, it worked very well with little vibration (all pressure went down to the table top) and it stoppped going through blades at a rate of knots when I added the liquid cooling system made form a windscreen washer motor and a ...

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*interesting*

And your work to date can be viewed at....?

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Riverforge

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I will try to find the time to scribble one down today.

Both with and without the return spring.

Watch this space....

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Ugo JUST got laureled?????

Christ on a zimmer-frame. If Ugo is now the entry point standard for recieving a laurel in armouring....I might as well change tracks and take up embroidery!

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Riverforge

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Would everyone please stop trying to remind me that I need to run this years cost asesment! How did Margaret get you to write that article, Fredrich????? Why is even the apprentice telling me that it is time to up the prices again???? It is all a conspiracy I tell you!!!! On a serious note though. D...

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Why not just build a period tumbler-triggered crossbow mechanism. You canmake them out of metal or hardwood and it takes less then two hours all up. All you need is one of those cheap hole-saws from a discount shop (about $5) and a powerdrill. A couple of nails complete the kit apart from one bit of...

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Thanks AG. Received.

So anyone else that ahd stuff outstanding for this guy out there? or am I the last and laziest?

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Oh bugger. Hitting the edit does not let me fix the spelling error in the title. Anyway. you are here now.... Hi folks. This is me trying to backtrack form losing all my e-mail files and address book on the computer. A couple of months ago we had a guy here who had lost over a thousand bucks to an a...

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I'll stick with that division of labour. I will gladly stick wwith critique of the articles you write....and leave Gundo to get as close to your jeans as he likes.... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Hark...

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It can be etched....I wll know how in just over four months. We get to "surface treatment: etching" in my course in just over three months. I have asked if stainless can be done and been told that it is one of the units. I will let you know HOW....just as soon as I find out. I will be bringing my di...

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The rivet shaft is "disturbed" so that the impacts cause the shaft to thicken and fill available space within the holes it occupies. The mushrooming at the tope and bottom of the rivet DO help secure it, but the link should still be firmly rivetted after these protrusions wear off. Sasha ...well you...

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I thought I was calling Garriden a cad.... You can be called a cad too, if you want. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Seriously, though. I have only had a quick look at the article. The pics are nice and the bits I read before the idiot we hire to do our lawns ran over Margaret's olive tre...

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You have wayyyyyy too much time on your hands

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Riverforge

Are you just mucking around or do you really need to learn how to make a rivet-set?

Sasha

Actually...I own the patent on the rivet fork. I do not imagine that two people could have invented such a complex and specialised device independantly.... So you must have stolen my idea and are trying usurp the patent! You cad! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Sasha Riverforge...home of ...

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Good article. Very clear. I would like to see more detail in the pictures. maybe take them to B&W and really try to pull the image quality up. Some of them just don't get the message across because they are too dark. I would also like to see a little more about the markings and stuff on the cutting ...

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The dollys promptly became stakes and hardy tools for me. The hammers did lose heads a few times. I finall stopped putting them back on and when I had 3 hammer heads sitting theree I stuck them in the lathe and did the corner rounding/polishing thing....then I re-shaped the top of the handle a bit a...

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I have had a set of straight jawed bench shears sitting in the corner of the workshop for the last 11 years. They were last used a little over 9 years ago. There are a lot of useful metal cutting tools. Things that are either hand or electrically powered and can simply cut out the patterns you draw ...

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Fredrich. I hear you! Using your simily....my craftsman, businessman and artist are all simultaneupously disgusted and frustrated because I now OWN a dream wworkshop ...but I can't move in until May. I thought I had gotten over that and just decided to putter along. Reading your article has woken me...

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If I could find large quantities of pure tin lying around I would go back to smelting bronze and casting my own fittings and plates.

It is a damn good idea though...and ought to work if I can get the tin.

thanks

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Riverforge

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It's a silversmiths rule...and I can't remember it right now. It is something like ....measure the diameter, measure the depth and then multiply. There was an article posted a while ago that linked to a guy hot-raising a one peice norman helm. he actually listed the US silversmiths version of the ru...

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Look in the essays section for the article by me.
Dragon kindly turned a post of mine into something readable.

It shows how to prototype articulation and test it before you drill holes.

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PoD. Definately fill the bottom of your dish wwith sand rather then expando-foam. The foam will not do much to deaden the noise...just take the top octave off the ringing. The saound will turn the "TING!!!" into a "THud." Oh yeah....lead is useful in doing repouse type effects in steel armour. Just ...

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Lead is a "dead" impact material. You do not need to form it. Just smelt a block of lead into a wooden box and then pound on it a bit when it has set and cooled. It will act like a heavy sandbag. The dish will form and the work will dish. Easily. Two problems. You will be smearing lead onto somethin...

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A decent heat gun and some barstock to mould over may be your best bet (You can mould over wooden dowwels....but you cannot bend them to shape and then just heat mould the plastic over them) You will need a smallish rubber or plastic hammer. basically, heat the plastic in a line with where you want ...

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Nice looking stuff.

Where did you get the rose shaped rondells on the front of the CoP?

I have been looking for those for ages. (they used to be available in this country and then they weren't....so I have about 6 sitting around for the last 5 years and I want MORE)

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Riverforge

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it uses too little of the screen and only give you one option to adhjust. if you take the option you lose the names of the people that are online. It takes any and all oportunities to take the cursor away form the typeing box and does not let you know that your message is being typed into empty spac...

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wwe tried it when the archive went "wobbly" a while ago. I liked it but the majority preffered the current system. Go figure I DO think that we need a better chat system then we have right now. If we want it to be web based the way the current one is then so be it....but there has tio be a less anoy...

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and scanning back through the thread revealks that he DID appear. Okay. he must have been typing at the same time as I was. Philosophy takes longer....

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Munz. I have honestly got no idea at all as to what you are talking about. All you did was inspire some philosophy. It was stuff that I had been thinking anyway...and it seemed as good a place as any for it. I didn't think you were saying one way or the other on the overall care and effort of his wo...

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You folks really have been cooped up too long over winter, haven't you? Firstly, he is either gone or still lurking. Either way, this thread is in the worng place (the right place would have a "flush" button). If someon wwants to hit the delete button then we can get on with talking armour again. Pa...

Rememebr the guy that got ripped off by the armourer a while