Recent content by Woodtroll

Nice job on that!

That's too bad. I was hoping for a metal one. A plastic one won't work the same, especially a 3D printed one, which this appears to be. I wish you the best of success, nevertheless!

I figure it must be AI - what would be fueling that fire, unless you're cutting magnesium, zirconium, or some such? Cooling fluid is generally non-flammable. May there was a hydraulic rupture?

Looks like that axe is designed for chopping but not splitting. The void behind the lower part of the bit leaves the handle wider than the metal due to the taper of the head, which means the handle is going to take a beating on the leading edge. You can see it's taken a lot of impacts before it...

Yep, I've worked with those kinds of customers before, doing carpentry work. Some were mildly frustrating, others were infuriating!

On the second one I bought, the bolt head was a tight fit in the recess. It should go down in there quite a ways, from the front to the back, and I had to tap it down in there with a punch to get it to stick through enough to catch the nut inside the thumb knob. The bolt goes through the oblong...

I sure am sorry to hear that. It's never easy to lose a furry family member.

Ouch! Looks like Mr. Pinion gave up some teeth too.

The coloring is certainly attractive, and now is done mainly as decoration, but casehardening was originally used to harden the outer layer of ferrous metal by driving more carbon into it under high heat while leaving a softer inner core, desirable for "toughness" in tools, guns, etc. made back...

Yep, it's just surface coloration. Even color case hardening on firearms, which is a much more involved process that penetrates somewhat deeper, is pretty fragile (as far as retaining the desirable color, anyway).

Somebody's been using that pair as a circuit tester! :oops: :meparto:

Boy, when I saw you post again on this thread I thought, "Oh, no!" Yep, I've had that happen in a couple of vehicles with the big Husky-type mats. I'm long-legged and have to push back a little with my feet when I get in and out of a vehicle, and a couple of times the mat has squirmed up over...

Yep, you're certainly right about that!

It's hateful to wear chaps in the heat, for sure, but if you don't you might live to regret it. You don't have to look far on these boards to find stories of folks who've been cut, often just doing "a quick job".

The 28” version of that one looks like it would be a good felling wedge driver, with that big flat poll.