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  1. 06-25-2009, 03:09 PM #1
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    Default The Carter Forge Class

    Here is a link to my photobucket slide show

    I could not embed the slide show here.

    Hope you enjoy.
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  2. 06-25-2009, 03:30 PM #2
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    Looks like a great way to spend a day!
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  3. 06-25-2009, 03:37 PM #3
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    Actually it was two days.

    And yes it was.
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  4. 06-25-2009, 03:40 PM #4
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    short but oh so sweet, thanks
    It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain
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    Nice man. When I saw the picture of that chopsaw throwing sparks I could SMELL it.
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  6. 06-25-2009, 07:45 PM #6
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    It is the only way to reduce that blank to a knife IMHO.
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  7. 06-26-2009, 01:47 AM #7
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    Very nice! What was the diameter of that huge grinding wheel, and what was powering it?
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  8. 06-26-2009, 02:11 PM #8
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    I would guess it at 2' diameter and it is powered by a 3 phase motor. I did not ask the horsepower, but a 3 phase anything is a big motor.
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