Hi all,

I recently bought a Klutch 52 inch foot shear and it came partially assembled. The manual does not give directions to assemble, only a tiny blow-up parts diagram. What needs to be done is attaching the foot pedal, attaching some guides and stops, and adjusting and testing it. If anyone has experience putting one of these together I would love to hear from you. I'm willing to pay since it makes no sense to have it sitting here mocking me after I paid so much for it. Or we can talk about trading out use of some of my equipment for the assembly. I know this will be easy for some of you, but for me, not so much! Please help!

Linda 

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I also need some help replacing the pump on my 7x12 inch band saw. I have the pump and there is a wiring diagram with it, but I'm a bit leery about doing this myself having shocked myself once doing some do-it-yourself electrical work. My master electrician dad would be so ashamed! Same deal as for the foot shear and if you can do both, great!!

Linda 

The term 'Green Coal' comes from the color of the smoke that comes from the coal when you first start the forge. Before the flames actually get going the coal puts out a dense greenish smoke. In this casa it refers to students that have little or no experience with blacksmithing and thus are green. Of course there is no slight intended because we were all green at this at one time.

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We will have a number of forges going. Each will be staffed by volunteers that will give lessons to the public. Each lesson is about an hour.

Cal Kohler

Well, the possibilities are endless. Green coal is what you look up as a greenhorn and need classes, or may be glasses. Then, there is coal out of Greenland. Actually, I only know they get coal out of Svalbard, which is North of Iceland. Now, if you have a coal seam exposed to the atmosphere, there may be some mosses attached. Nice green. Actually, there is brown coal or also called lignite. The developmental intermediate between bog and anthracite.

I am truly green to this subject and don't know about green coal classes either. Sorry for making fun about it, but this just asks for some nonsense feedback.

Dietrich