Micky, Sorry to be a bore, but I'm perplexed! Sounds like another case of or common language that divides us! OK, from what I understood, your making heat...
Hey there, Lyle- Are you making aluminum bronze? What type? Mark Feldmann Pacifist ...with occasional lapses. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Matthew, It most certainly is a case of language dividing us, but not in any colloquial sense. I'm sure we've all had to "learn the facts of life" on more than...
Micky, thank you for your explanation. I have an additional problem with the said "facts of life"which is I'm dealing with this kind of search in another...
No, I'm just making scrap aluminum flow better. I haven't had very good luck pouring aluminum bronze. It's been over 10 years since I tried but back in the...
Matthew, I haven't tested the following method yet. But, I thought it would be of especial interest to you: To be tested: Orthophosphoric acid (commonly called...
Micky, I am very interested in your as yet untried recipe. I'm having trouble finding places that sell zirconium dioxide on the web, it sound like an exotic...
I use phosphoric acid all the time for rust treatment, You can buy it at a paint store. the brand I use is "OSPHO" I use it straight on large items like my...
Stan, thanks for your reply. The thing is, I don't live in the US, you used to be able to buy it here in France, but it's now extremely difficult to get hold...
I would assume this is the reason! An old Redneck showed me how it ( or any soda) cleans corroded battery terminals. Cleaning the lead fair, but the copper is...
I guess it is Christmas in May. I had one company that I had been dealing with because they have a location that is just off the freeway I will be on...
I am involved in a metal spinning project. I want to anneal 0.025Ó sheet aluminum at 650*F for 2 hours. A toaster oven on bake goes to 500*. A hot plate on...
650 degrees plus or minus five degrees? This sounds more like tempering than annealing! At any rate, the best you're going to do is to place cut sheets into a...
Lance You could use a piloted gas burner and a solenoid main gas valve controlled by a cheap ebay temperature controller with a K type thermocouple. You would...
... Change the controller on the toaster oven. -- Ron Thompson On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space Center, USA Think, Draw,...
I read once about a person forming aluminum sheet for car bodywork or something. He worked it until it got hard, then got out the acetylene torch. He...
Lance; I heat treat a lot of rock so it can be worked and a lot of times , I use a turkey roaster. Take the inside pan out and fill abot 3/4 full of viculite...
I don't know why you need to hold the temperature for two hours,once it's up to heat, it's good. I learnt to use soup rubbed on the back, heat with a torch...
Burning the soot off is a standard practice when "normalizing" chrome moly aircraft tubing after welding a "cluster". The flame is then pulled back allowing a...
... Lance You may be making more work than necessary. Quarter inch aluminum should be able to be annealed with a torch, either by sooting or soaping and...
I have a Weber Q BBQ. Set on high, top closed it records 700*F +/-2*F in today’s ambient conditions. So I adjusted the burner flame and annealed the aluminum...
Lyle; Sorry that just kinds slipped out.. Did you ever hear of the term Knapper or knapping ?? Knapping is the art of making arrow heads, the old way, ...
OK, that makes sense now. I also know stone masons would depending on the type of stone, heat stones proior to splitting them. Man, knapping is a real art. I...
Hi, Stone Tool: Sorry for the slow reply :-) I stumblede across your post while doing research on the Net (rather than the group); wasn't online much in 2006. ...
My first answer was a little sloppy; any wind that could blow out a mikey burner, or one of Larry Zoellers modified side-arm burners, would be way to stiff to...
Mikey: I built 6 of these burners....... that was a LONG time ago. I have one that is a cluster of 3 together which throws a massive fireball and will ice up...
Someone posted a video of our 1PM casting demo at the Orlando Mini Maker Faire. Unfortunately, they didn't wait around for the shakeout. Jamie Cunningham's...
