A good container for acids and ferric chloride can be made using pvc pipe. Randal Graham sent in the photo of his acid tube to share with you. He has used regular pipe with standard caps. In my shop, I have added a clean out fitting for the top piece so you can use the screw type plug to close it up.
Getting older, I had to start wearing magnifiers for the close up work. I tried the drug store reading glasses, but wanted the protection of regular safety glasses. The solution comes from a company called Neoptics. They sell plastic lens in all prescriptions. They are held in place by surface tension much like the oil change stickers. When the safety glasses become scratched, you just wet the lens and it comes right off. You can buy them online and can be fitted to anything you might wear from welding glasses to scuba masks.
I was given this saw by Harald Sellevold, a fine maker from Bergen, Norway. It is a small
back saw and it can be made by cutting down a sheet rock saw blade, the kind that is used
to cut out around handy boxes. Once you have your hole started this little tool will rip
the hole to size in short order. It works well on bone as well as wood and has really
speeded up the task for me.
From
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom," a good way to dampen the noise from a ringing anvil is to
put a good size magnet on the side of the anvil. The resonance of the ring would be
damped by the change in media as they pass to the magnet, sort of like how soundproof
glass works." Thanks for the tip Carl.
This
simple vise set up is made by welding an inexpensive drill press vise to a piece of angle
iron and then screwed to the bench. As shown, the jaws are padded and a bar of supporting
steel is used to support the blade that extends beyond the jaws. By using the supporting
steel, you can cover the point and the edge and protect yourself from injury. I have been
using a similar vise mounted in my main bench vise, but had to change the height of my
work to rest a strain.