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26 May ’14 - 2:40 pm

Has anyone done a brake forge on here? I just recently made one and could share what I went through to set up my own little blacksmithy.

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26 May ’14 - 2:46 pm

Virux said
Has anyone done a brake forge on here? I just recently made one and could share what I went through to set up my own little blacksmithy.

would love to see it, there are several posts and vids on what others have done, would love to see your setup

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26 May ’14 - 6:58 pm

I started off with a bunch of square tubing. My father in law gave it to me to make a big "shelf" type work place but I could not use it the way it was for various reasons.

You can see below why I couldnt use it the way it was. It was very uneven and it was too wide for the size of 1/4 plate I have.

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26 May ’14 - 7:01 pm

I took it down to 19 1/2 inches wide so it would fit my plate.

I only had one big piece of plate so I had to take some smaller strips and lay them into place.

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26 May ’14 - 7:02 pm

My crappy beads

Supplies the next day.

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26 May ’14 - 7:06 pm

I decided to make the table 3ft tall as its a perfect height for working at my height of a 5'11. I also cut that circle in the table with a grinding wheel. It was "FUN."

I welded the cross braces and welded the brake drum to the table. I held up on the last side brace for the plumbing. I let the last brace kind of support the intake tube. I also mounted my grinder and vice to the table as well.