Subject: NJBA Meeting

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 09:40:15 -0400

The New Jersey Blacksmiths are having their next chapter meeting at Marshall
Bienstock's forge on September 29, 1996 at 12:00.  Non-members are welcome.
 Bring your own refreshments.

The main subject will be a power hammer demonstration with a high-tech twist.
 One of our members is experimenting with wear resistant coatings for anvils,
dies, and other similar items.  We have had a set of Little Giant dies coated
with our first choice of materials and will be trying to beat the heck out of
the coating at the demo.  Feel free to come and try your luck.  If the
coating proves to be acceptable, it may offer an excellent way to produce new
lifetime anvils for low cost, and also will be useful for refacing beat-up
old anvils, dies, etc.

Come one, come all.

For info & directions, contact:

Pete Engle (908) 219-6560   email: [email-masked]
Bruce Freeman (908) 922-8408 email: [email-masked]

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From: Russell McCrackin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 20:18:05 -0700 (PDT)

>Bruce Freeman (908) 922-8408 email: [email-masked]
I expect a full report including the name of the material and what you found
out about it to appear here right after the meeting.  Would it be possible to
include resistance to rust as part of your testing?  It does get damp out here
in Oregon when the Native Americans do the rain dance.  :^)

Rusty

Get it hot and hit it hard.

Never use force, get a bigger hammer.

 [email-masked]