[SEL] My Ignorance - Forged Welded Wheels

[Paul Maples]

Good info and a good story, thanks Peter.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Lowe" <plowe at exemail.com.au>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] My Ignorance - Forged Welded Wheels


> Kaye's grand father used to be a blacksmith in this area, he forge welded 
> most stuff, I have examples of it that have survived. I also have the post 
> drill, swage block and forge tools from the original balcksmith's shop. 
> The anvil was stolen during WW2 while the men were away fighting. I guess 
> the shop dates back to the late 1800's - 1940's.
> I was told a story by Kaye's father of how his father forge welded a prop 
> shaft from a tug boat in the Clarence River, where we  live. The shaft was 
> 6" in diameter and they aligned the shaft, setup the fire heating both 
> ends and the finished job was a perfectly welded and aligned shaft.
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> Peter, Oz
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>> Paul,
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>> Anything older than 1930 is likely to be hammer welded.  I have a lot of 
>> cart wheels with similar rim welds.Glenn Karch
>> Hercules Historian
>> Haubstadt, Indiana, USA
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>> Well gang the longer you stay in this hobby the more you learn...right?
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>> I got a real good deal on a set of cast iron wheels, flat spoked, and 
>> they arrived today. I plan on using these on a cart I will build later 
>> for my 5 HP Lister.
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>> http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g36/wheelterrapin/wheels002.jpg
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>> When the wheels arrived today I open the first box of four and was 
>> looking at the wheel and I saw a crack. I thought "Darn" the guy sold me 
>> a wheel with a cracked rim, oh well I will get it welded.
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>> http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g36/wheelterrapin/WheelWeld.jpg
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>> I then opened up the other three wheels and "Quadruple Darn", all of the 
>> wheels had cracked rims. I begin to look more closely at the cracks to 
>> see how bad they were and I noticed that the crack on the face of the rim 
>> did not line up with the crack on the inter-face of the rim. I then saw 
>> that the metal had been scarfed (Over-lapped) and it was then a light 
>> turned on in this hole riddled brain of mine....these wheels have been 
>> forged welded (Hammer Welded)
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>> Anyone got any idea how old these flat spoked wheels are that had the 
>> rims forged welded together?
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>> Just curious.
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>> Paul
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