railroad track

[benchracer1]

Got a 12 in piece of railroad track over the weekend. Looks to be great for making some shaping posts. Will let you know

[FriarTuck]

Hey Steve, if nothing else, It'll make a great Anvil.

Tuck

[Kerry Pinkerton]

I have a cousin who works for a railroad (to be unnamed). YEARS back, I mentioned to his Dad (my uncle) that I wouldn't mind having a piece of track for an anvil. When I went up to the family reunion, my cousin had 2 pieces of 180lb track 3' long sitting beside the driveway. He'd just called the yard and had them bandsawed from brand new track. It took 4 of us to load it in my truck and when I pushed it out by my shop it's been sitting where it lay for all these years. Now that I have a bandsaw that will cut it, I probably ought to saw it up into 12" lengths and sell it at MetalMeet.

[RICHARD M PAUZA]

It's great stuff to hammer on.

Butt when your drill bitz see it they will scream...!

And your taps will run away & hide.

LOL

good luck with the band saw in...!

[Homemade44]

With a little work they will polish up and work great. You can also clean up the web of the track and use it for shaping also.

Joe

[Boogiemanz1]

Kerry, if you decide to do that I would be interested in one. I can't find mine anymore................john

[benchracer1]

gotta be some hard metal

[Peter Miles]

Joe, no doubt you just tossed those into a benchtop tumbler to clean them up, right?

[Homemade44]

Peter, I have a super finisher, which is a belt sander with a very long narrow belt. Used several differant grits to get the finish. On the side I used a 4-1/2" grinder with different grit discs and then to the super finisher.

Joe

[Chaz]

Do any of you use a smaller track for anything?? I'm not sure what size you would consider it, but is a little smaller than what I would consider typical. I'll dig it out and look. I think I have about 50 feet.