A cooker hood, a smoky Allday forge, and a noisy lathe! My week in the workshop

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

Well it has been an interesting week! I filled the bosh on the forge, added a bottle of CH leak sealer, and waited! after 3 days, not a drop of a leak. One of my earlier slideshows shows the rebuilding (twice) of the bosh/tuyere on the Allday forge, it is cast iron, and not very accurately made, and I had to make a leather gasket, built up on one side, and shaved to fit the gap, and then built it up with lashings of "Boss White". I am really pleased that it is watertight, and behind me! The subsequent lighting of the forge smoked the workship out, but my enthusiasm got the better of me, and I realised too late that I had not opened the flue vent, but it soon cleared, and it did give the CO alarm a good test! I need to get some more coke, and riddle the slack out of what I have, when you turn the blower up it blows fine cold slack all over the shop! Still, it's another step forward, and it's all in fun!
Hope you enjoy it guys and gals, like and subscribe if you do, and thanks for watching!
Phil
East Yorkshire.

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[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Not sure about the lathe bearings being on the way out (they always are, right from new – but hopefully only veerrry slooowly!). Large areas of sheet metal can amplify all sorts of frequencies, especially those at a resonant pitch. Tacoma bridge failed because of that.

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