gotta love building stuff that lasts... 😎 So, I was wondering. If you hot punch the holes, the bar gets wider, but it will also get longer, right? With that many holes the bar will get a lot more lenght. How do you calculate where the holes need to be punched?
Fabulous to see how the induction forge just heats what needs to be hot allowing the rest to be hand held. It is so extraordinarily interesting to see these huge architectural forms being created, things that will last for centuries with no maintenance, indefinitely if maintained. Thank you for sharing!
Hello Nigel, I want to make this as a gift for my boss when I’m leaving the company because he is a big fan of fossiles! I’m wondering, what is this your puting on the fossile at 10:00 (water?) and what is it for? Thanks a lot for sharing !
Dear Nigel, I was sent to fix an induction sealing machine ,but the unit sometimes works (heats )and other times it does not, .In other words, it is intermittent functioning.. the technician used thread tape to seal the induction coil to stop the coolant water leaks. Could that be the source of the problem of intermittent functions?
hi yes what you are doing is insulating the induction flow .you need a good clean contact on all coil surface contacts or they will get hot the same way a dirty earth clamp does on a welder .undo it and see if you can see any signs of sparking.
@@NigelBarnettArtistBlacksmith Thanks very much Nigel I will try that, I had checked all the power control H Bridge mosfet driver cards and the microcontroller board all those checked fine. I swapped them and put them in a sister machine and they worked well. But putting them in the induction sealer under test ,all functions were intermittent, I thought I may change the electrolytic reservoir capacitors at the H bridge Mosfet side. as I had not changed those. Thanks very much for your advice.
Nig has the most beautiful workshop. I’d love to see more videos of the big Massey. I saw some folks using a 500 and 1000 weight. They had the clear space I think it was? Truly incredible machines I don’t think we’ll ever seen any built like that again.
Super interesting. Nice how you hid the welding by power hammering the join. Would have been nice to end with a before & after image of the hinge showing the improvement in the look after your work. Thank you for sharing!
Hi Nigel, thank you for your videos, helps me to understand these machines. I bought a 15kw induction heater from china but it only worked for a couple of heats and then would not heat,there are no alarms going off but just won't heat.The company i purchased from i think know about as much as I do and that is bugger all.After watching your video maybe it is because I possibly have a air lock at the coil. Do you think that could be a problem? Cheers Shane
hi Shane what does it read on the front panel when you try to start it .if there is no power check the trip switch on the back .what size is the coil it should be about 1mt long for a 16-1 machine and 2mt for a 16-2 sometimes they send the wrong coils in the box and the machine will not switch to high frequency and just heats on low frequency ..high =620 and low= 205up this tells you you have wrong coils .
Thanks Nigel, it doesn't show any readings on the panel and it doesn't make the beeping sound as your machine does when it is heating, I am not at home at the moment but the coil is very short no where near a metre long. It worked for a couple of heats then wouldn't heat. Cheers Shane
Interesting! I bought one of your hammers & a butterfly last Christmas. The hammer has done good work for me, no problems at all, even working rebar & the butterfly has been a delight during the winter. Thank you for sharing!
That’s a great solution for multiple small parts, Nigel. Perhaps adding a solid refractory cylinder inside and a base that vibrates the parts around could solve the even heating issue!
Very cool! :) Pyrox glass contains boron so it stands up to heat and rapid temperatures changes, even quite shocking ones. But that said, it is really a fascenating demonstration of how this glass is such a good product...
it would be cool if you did a video about how you went from being a welder to your own blacksmith because it seems like quite a hard business to get into in this day and age.
Good morning / evening. I really like the look of that small power hammer! Just recently been upgrading my setup for knifemaking, and a power hammer would be massively useful, but I didn't think that I'd be able to get one that would be fairly compact, yet still be powerful enough for my requirements, but there is no doubt that the 15kg one would be ideal! Thanks for the vid, very useful and informative!
Looking for a circuit diagram / schematic for a Chinese built 15KW30-100KHZ version of this style of heater. I'm an Electronics Tech, but have not worked with induction heaters so any service info would be appreciated.
Ebenezer Scrooge should have worked with you, instead of going into financial stuff with Fozziewig at his rubber chicken factory. He definitely would have been a lot happier and Mel wouldn’t have left him ! Awesome sculpture and other things !!
