It's just customary, in a casual layman's way, to say "pounds" instead of "pounds per square inch" (psi). Just like when talking about gas pressure...
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Pierre Coueffin
darkblood_
Jun 13, 2012 7:04 am
Wheel weights used to be mostly lead... They're moving very rapidly over to steel, for environmental reasons. Which is a pain for me, since I still cast a...
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Bruce Bellows
snookered1ca
Jun 13, 2012 3:19 am
Hi Pat I've just been so busy at work the past while that I've been lucky to get on this computer twice a week. I have been lurking about but I have to admit...
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Stan
stan2778
Jun 13, 2012 3:09 am
I looked it up ! A 1" bolt *" deep in a 3 1/2" pocket 59,000 pounds of strain, not psi! Specifications....
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Stan Stocker
stanstocker
Jun 13, 2012 12:19 am
Hi Adam, The discussion moved over to a consideration of lead rather than more conventional grouts for machine work. As lead would need to be cast in place...
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Pat
rigmatch
Jun 13, 2012 12:16 am
and short sleeves don't open this unless you have a strong stomach http://www.silencertalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=41444...
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Adam Simmons
xyrth
Jun 12, 2012 11:51 pm
Ah, yes I understand now. I was trying to see that if you used grout to fill the annular space what would create temp for it to blow out. But the heat is from...
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David G. LeVine
sirdave144
Jun 12, 2012 11:47 pm
... In order to pour liquid metal into the spaces, it must be liquid. In order to make it work well, the metal must be superheated (brought well above the...
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jacques
savardjacque...
Jun 12, 2012 11:43 pm
the real term is (((roof fungus killer))) that is the problem thank to pierre coeffin jack Jack, I'm well past the age of an impolite dismissal for horrible...
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jacques
savardjacque...
Jun 12, 2012 11:41 pm
thank you very much some time it is only a question of vocabulary because goolge do not realy search jack 47'n 712'W A quick google search using the...
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Pierre Coueffin
darkblood_
Jun 12, 2012 11:09 pm
A quick google search using the following terms : zinc roof fungus killer Turned up http://bryophytes.science.oregonstate.edu/page24.htm and ...
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Adam Simmons
xyrth
Jun 12, 2012 11:09 pm
I must be missing something. Why are we seeing these temperatures?...
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David G. LeVine
sirdave144
Jun 12, 2012 11:00 pm
... Lead has a melting point above 327 degrees C (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead), Concrete has reported steam explosions at 300 degrees C. Good idea,...
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Adam Simmons
xyrth
Jun 12, 2012 10:59 pm
Jack, I'm well past the age of an impolite dismissal for horrible spelling, grammar, and emails that just don't make sense, but your question is so horrible I...
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savardjacques@...
savardjacque...
Jun 12, 2012 10:49 pm
the majority of all of you live in usa because that I try to asking you this I see on the webb several y ago a gadjet for roof i have some moushroom or bad...
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Adam Simmons
xyrth
Jun 12, 2012 9:54 pm
Probably 5,000PSI (very standard). I've used HUB100, which is just a generic grout. Easy source of lead is wheel weights - I used to cast a lot of bullets :) ...
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stan campbell
stan2778
Jun 12, 2012 9:43 pm
The grout I use, Rockite, I believe is 50,000 psi and is easily removed with a hammer drill or chisel. About $2 us a pound. Also, isn't most Babbit Lead...
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true_blue_texican
true_blue_te...
Jun 12, 2012 6:28 pm
Thank you, Dave, I think that settles it: grout is the way to go!! Tex...
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Pat Delany
rigmatch
Jun 12, 2012 6:25 pm
Thanks for your comments on this guys. I think Dave came up with the grout idea first and I don't know where the machine would be without his idea. Bruce, we...
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David G. LeVine
sirdave144
Jun 12, 2012 5:01 pm
... Tex, Babbitt is poured between 640 and 915 degrees F (roughly.) See http://www.alchemycastings.com/lead-products/babbitt.htm for details. Unless I am...
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Adam Simmons
xyrth
Jun 12, 2012 1:42 pm
Grout can take "hammering" from a flat foot, compressive strength it has in droves....
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Bruce Bellows
snookered1ca
Jun 12, 2012 12:10 pm
How yeah doing Keith Usually on an interrupted cut machinists try and take as light a cut as possible so as not to break their tool bit which will probably go...
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keith gutshall
drpshops
Jun 11, 2012 11:31 pm
Hi Bruce  I am wondering how the grout would stand up to  the hammering the spindle takes on an interruptied cut?   Keith Deep Run Portage Back Shop " The...
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Bruce Bellows
snookered1ca
Jun 11, 2012 11:01 pm
I've grouted many industrial machines in place after they've been aligned and leveled and found that grouting keeps them in place very well and when they need...
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Pat Delany
rigmatch
Jun 11, 2012 9:30 pm
It's OK with me! I look for developing world kind of things and babbitt may be hard to find over there. I may be wrong but I figured that grout that was thin...
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true_blue_texican
true_blue_te...
Jun 11, 2012 8:11 pm
What do you think about "seating" the ways and the spindle cartridge with babbitt instead of nonshrink grout? That way you could melt the babbitt out to remove...
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Pat
rigmatch
Jun 8, 2012 3:22 am
Editor at Make says the concrete lathe is going to be a magazine feature!...
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Pat
rigmatch
Jun 8, 2012 3:20 am
Thanks Bob Pat...
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Robert
rbeckett...
Jun 7, 2012 10:08 pm
I started a thread about your machine and need for translators on our machining site a while back too. Bob...
