/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1032629

My old boss had a forge that sat in a basement that was flooded for god knows how long. He gave it to me and I resurfaced it and replaced some parts. I am currently replacing the blower fan with an old vacuum motor but as a temporary measure I used an old shop vac to act as a blower fan. this project is pretty fun but my ultimate goal will be to see if I can get it up to snuff by spending as little money as possible. With that goal in mind it has taken me a long time to scrounge up usable parts and scrap to practice with.

A good place to get free scrap is construction sites that are in the Demolition phase (residences and small businesses, not big projects) because if you offer to haul their garbage away you can usually keep all the steel and iron to practice with. Also scrap tools if you are lucky, I have a small box full of broken wrenches that I will re purpose into knives when this project gets running full bore