Thanks. No I didn't want to create an area where I could not grind clean! Stainless needs to have a clean surface to be stainless! :)

That s why they call it stain-less and not stain-proof

I think the only way he could have done it would be to acid etch it on then clear coat it.

@@jasonsummit1885 yes or by laser

looks like an inch worm. 8-)

You are welcome, thank you!

He is *Steel Whisperer*

How could you go wrong with a magician? XD

Stéphane - Do you have a channel? I would be very interested to see this build you’re working on.

@@psidvicious Hello, Yes of course, we have a chain for the restoration of our Riva. We don't have a lot of time so it's not going at the desired speed :) This is the chain: Proofmakers Here is the address: kzfaq.info/love/_FZrfNKA3n2HhMk8VafaXA I hope you like it. sincerely Stephane

:)

Yeah heavy pieces like these would peek out of the packaging if not lined with shock absorbers lol.

It might be a lift ring

That's the same thing that got me. I saw the thumbnail and thought, you can buy those at the hardware store, don't cost much either... But the scale of that bracket made it clear why it needed to be forged.

Same here ! from the picture of it on the wooden table it is difficult to gauge its size and i was thinking why make something that is easily available for a few dollars , then he showed the piece of bar he was going to use and it all clicked into place !

Great thank you! Yes you're right the scale is different

@ivan schafeldt I think you are right.

@@muggzzzzz Indeed. I wonder if the quench helps, too. As Törbjorn implies, austenitic stainless steels (3xx) do not have the ferritic atomic structure which causes hardening when quenched. But I suspect the thermal shock is good for loosening the grip of any scale there might be (even heat resisting stainless alloys do oxidise to a certain degree)

Yes indeed... took a few tries to get the tooling to work like I wanted. Still not perfect but with a one off like this I can accept it :) :) A beast to bend I might add.

Two of my favorite channels interacting with each other

2 Masters!!!

@@torbjornahman i think the shop moved before the part bent lol .. i think you could have bent a prybar as much as you were pulling

I know...

I know when I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a handle to a drawer

Thanks! I'm definitely an experience richer :)

Thanks! Have been looking into that, and frankly it's a bit confusing... pickling or passivation. Pickling is the actual cleaning operation to my understanding, removing oxides and gunk, which I think you do with the process you describe. It can also be done with pickling paste, which is a nasty product. Passivation seems to be a rapid way of restoring the chromium oxide layer which would have formed naturally anyway. Perhaps the acid also removes small amounts of iron contamination.

@@torbjornahman Yep, the chemistry is pretty far over my head. I just follow a recipe/process. IIRC, pickling is a soak, whereas passivation is electro-chemical. It's very closely related to electro-polishing. I'll see if I can find bookmarks for the pages I found informative.

I'm probably making it too complicated, but this is the way I figured out... the transition from flat to round is the problem....

@@torbjornahman I love how it turned out it's just that I would have probably lost a lot of time trying to do it in an easier way

Thanks!!!

Still worried that I might have missed small spots with oxides somewhere, but I hope it will work out ok.

Ha ha, thanks. It was a beast to bend I might add... stickers are in the mail btw.

@@torbjornahman awesome! Thank you for the stickers and yours are on the way as well 😊🔨🔥

Thanks Mike!

Thanks! Oh yes, christmas food is the best to prepare for this kind of work!

Had to lift my eyes at your comment a second time, I see what you did there

Nice blacksmithing joke.

Beat me to it xD I would grade your pun a perfect on a 1-10 scale

In 1968 my parents signed a 5 year lease to operate an old corner store and gas station that had attached a now newly decommissioned fab shop. My little brother and I would entertain ourselves exploring the shop and found boxes and boxes of Halloween sparklers. These were a heavy duty variety that when bent to resemble a boomerang could be used for target practice ammunition. We practiced on and off over the years and when the day came to hand the business back to its original owner, a well seasoned blacksmith, he drove up while we were in the middle of targeting mailboxes. He was fascinated how we managed to ping the third mailbox down the street. We made a trade, I offered him boomerang number 7018 and he gave me his best interpretation of a blacksmith upsetting. The final tally from a refrigerator and two freezers? I was told repeatedly that I offered my purple Clackers in exchange for about 6000 rods, and he accepted.

LOL had to think on this one a second =P lol

Thanks Lee!

Thanks! No snow yet... wonder if it will come at all..

I think he watches This Old Tony. Or they went to the same magic school and learned how to break steel.

Yep, I agree. I've been subbed to his channel for a while.😁

@@jasonsummit1885 YUP !!!

thehipmyster Thunderbear is very much inspired by TOT I believe

@@BCM1959 ToT redshifted when his Samuel Adams arrived.

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:) I'm not emulating... just having fun.

Thanks!

Yeah, suddenly the table grain seems huge.

Wow, thank you so much Robert!!

Thanks! :)

@Andrew Grengs (Student) its in the eye of the beholder

:) Thanks!!

:) That's right! You need muscles both here and there, trust me! :)

Ha ha, thanks! I think he will manage! :)

@@torbjornahman He could learn a calm and peaceful way of making videos... Imagine Alec Steele making a video where he doesn't speak a single word. I think he would explode 😀

Thanks!

I have done some forging when I was working in a wedding shop fixing jackhammers bitts

Heck, as a machinist give me 316 any day over common garden mild steel, or 304 SS (in fact, give me 303 over 304, but preferably 316) I've never understood its bad rep. It's a bit more difficult to afford, but once it's bought and paid for I'm a big fan, personally.

Thanks! That's right, or to make it stay put in the package. :)

Thanks Richard!

this! hahahaha

If I only could clone myself.... there is no time for that I'm afraid.