Metal Working

Welding depends on heat and the thickness of the two pieces to be welded. The art of the blacksmith comes into play at about 2500 F. We are going back about 80 years in technology. The key fuel is charcoal. If you don't have electrical power, get the book on producer gas as was used down under to run cars in W.W.II, convert a 3 phase motor into a 3 phase generator and run it with an old V8 engine. Instead of my going into long and boring instructions on heating and pounding together for spot welding, at very fair prices you can get metal working books.

Lindsay Publications Inc.
PO Box 538
Bradley IL. 60915
815-935-5353
Send $2.00 for catalog.

Learn how to:

• Build a cupola, melt and cast iron, bronze!
• Build a foundry, melt and cast copper, aluminum and brass.
• Learn green sand casting and the use of cores for those hard to get places like engine manifolds, food grinders, well hand pumps. Making patterns.
• Make your own charcoal to fuel a backyard foundry operation!
• Build a forge out of an old waterheater the Wimberly way.
• Learn from the master of junk (raw materials) Dave Gingery. Make your own out of junk, lathe, milling machine, metal shaper, drill press and much more! Learn how to cut gears from the best, Colvin & Standly from 1937!
• Learn how to make your own drill bits!
• Build a water resistor welder, couple it with a carbon arc and use it with compressed air to do cutting. (Rail repair yards and ship yards still use this today).
• Hardening, tempering, annealing.
• Or do you need to weld two pieces of heavy I-beams or railroad track together? Easy! Mix up some Thermite and weld it like before Edison and Tesla were around. Do it at night and have a great light show.

Don't take my word for it, get the books, start your survival library and get ready to teach others. We are going to have to rebuild just about everything if we live. It is not going to be fun and games, it is dangerous and you need full information that is tried and true. I've had in early days green sand molds explode while pouring molten iron and could have been fatally burned without protective clothing and shields. It is as serious as the battlefield.

Offered by Glen.