Our LRDG truck is still not quite finished - there are still some small things to do including the "bush bars" that attach to the front bumper. We decided to make these from scratch ourselves, using a home-made forge. We got the measurements from a very helpful earlier post on this same thread (thanks Jordan Baker from Ontario!). We had never made or used a forge before, so it was "in at the deep-end" as usual. We used an old cut-down water pump pressure cylinder lined with fire-bricks and with air forced in from a vacuum cleaner with the air-flow reversed. We wanted to achieve a nice yellow colour where the steel is about 1,000 degrees C and very easy to bend, but we only managed cherry-red due to our inexperience and the poor design of the forge. So we had to do a lot of hammering and re-heating before we got the right shape for the "eyes".
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