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The day my forge fireback cracked in half during a demo
I was doing a live demonstration at the Lancaster County fair last fall, showing how to make leaf hooks, when my 1-inch thick steel fireback split right down the middle after I quenched it too fast. I had to grab a spare piece of angle iron and bolt it over the crack just to finish the last two hours of the show, and the crowd actually thought it was part of the process. Has anyone else had a piece fail mid-demo, and did you stop to fix it or just push through and explain it away?
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leo_harris1mo ago
That crack probably looked worse than it was, but bolting angle iron over it was a smart save.
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