The Home Machinist!

The drawing is not too good but i think you can get the idea. The advantage of using a swedge and fuller over smashing it with a piston is that it happens real fast. before it can cool off. You file the shape you hope to make in the face of the two thick plates. Clamp the bottom plate in a stout vise. and you are ready to go. Heat the rod and put it between the faces and whack the top plate with a big hammer. If you want to use one shape a whole lot you can make it out of hard steel but I just use soft steel and mill it off when it gets worn, and start again. you can put several different shapes in one plate. well just an idea. I used tools like that to make woodcarving gouges,many years ago. and i did finally get to the pictures of your train. IMPRESSIVE!

Anyone (besides me) unable to view this picture?

Harold

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I don't see it either, now or earlier...

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Russ
Master Floor Sweeper

Mike, I finally see the swedge and fuller.jpg. A simple but effective way to pound metal, and I will use it in the future. Thanks.

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Dave Dalton
"A Republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin, 1787, in response to a question at the close of the Constitutional Convention about what kind of government was established.

I can not see the picture. It shows up as a small box with a red X that will not open. The pictures used earlier in the thread opened normally. However the 'red X' problem does occur frequently and I've always thought it is something the sender does to the pictures that make them look like virus to my computer's fire walls. I just use the firewall SW the computer maker loads. It is fairly new SW and upgraded automatically and often so this could be a problem to anyone with good firewalls. I have no idea what the SW does so I can't suggest a workaround.

Tom

I see a really dark pic with some faint chevrons, two faint hex shapes, a faint arrow and a pink dot.

Jack.

well i will try again, i do not know what the problem is. It shows up in the preview.

No change. Please check your private messages.

Harold

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Harold (and anyone else involved in technical support on this forum): FWIW, I can see the jpg on my WinXP desktop with Firefox but not with IE (both latest versions). With IE, it displays as a red X. On my Android tablet, I can also see it with Firefox, but not with Dolphin or the built-in browser.

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Dave Dalton
"A Republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin, 1787, in response to a question at the close of the Constitutional Convention about what kind of government was established.

I also can see it using Firefox on Win XP. The image is 215 X 400 pixels W X H.

Mike, I've thought about something like this to form square-headed screws out of round-headed ones. Heat up the head, stick it in the swedge/fuller, and give it a whack. Would this work, and do you have any suggestions on the setup?

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Dan Watson
Building IC mikado in 1.5" scale

Thanks for the comments, guys. I have sought input from higher authority. Readers should be able to see anything that's posted.

Harold

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Ok let me try again. This time in RGB