Tools and Sundries

• Pipe Miter Software

  Software to generate pipe joint templates.

• Flypress nut

  A sketch and description of the interesting nut that makes the British flypress work the way it does, from slightly foggy recollection.
  

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• Blacksmith's sow

  This thing came to my shop on a stoneboat. It was originally in the old marine shop in Port Medway, Nova Scotia and was the only thing too heavy for two men to heft into their pickup when the old smith's granddaughter hired them to haul the contents of the shop to the scrap yard.
  

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• Double screw vise

  John Chobrda's photo of a double screw vise. Note the square-link chain. Anybody want to sell me one of these things? Or swap for somthing? (Photo used with permission.)
  

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• Mystery Anvil

  Chainmaker's Anvil. Clever Brits!
  

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• Side-draft Tuyere

  The nozzle and water cooling tank from a side-draft forge
  

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• What's a snarling iron?

  Hard to describe in words. A couple of photos.
  

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• Lockseam

  Notes and diagrams on making a lockseam in sheet metal
  

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• Palmer Power Spring Hammer

  Crankshaft, big leaf spring, clunky ram. Vintage 1870s-1880s.