Hi Guys,
Recently a young farmer was showing some interest in my machining so I gave him a tour of my workshop and (tactfully) asked him if he had some scrap iron laying around on the farm. I was hoping to get some flat stock. Some ploughs have a nice 65mm square bar that the individual shares bolt on to.
Well he pitched up the other day with the gift of an ox wagon axle in his bakkie (SA speak for a small truck, usually one-tonners). Most of it is flat, about 45mmX70mm, at each end before the tapers it widens out to about 70mm square. It looks to be hammer forged. In one of the old books the author says it would be well for the machinist to learn how to forge his stock to rough size to save on steel. It will probably machine quite nicely. Am I gonna mutilate an antique bit of iron?
Ant
Recently a young farmer was showing some interest in my machining so I gave him a tour of my workshop and (tactfully) asked him if he had some scrap iron laying around on the farm. I was hoping to get some flat stock. Some ploughs have a nice 65mm square bar that the individual shares bolt on to.
Well he pitched up the other day with the gift of an ox wagon axle in his bakkie (SA speak for a small truck, usually one-tonners). Most of it is flat, about 45mmX70mm, at each end before the tapers it widens out to about 70mm square. It looks to be hammer forged. In one of the old books the author says it would be well for the machinist to learn how to forge his stock to rough size to save on steel. It will probably machine quite nicely. Am I gonna mutilate an antique bit of iron?
Ant