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05-23-2013,
05:51 AM
derekm
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How do you fill a hole in MS ?
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Home Shop Welding
mig as filler on one side will shrink ... done this on metal tubing with only 4mm holes and took pre bending to get it straight after the welding. I...
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05-19-2013,
12:55 PM
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is this too good to be true?
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something is adrift here you can get 14CFM from 3HP in compressors from machine mart in the UK...
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05-19-2013,
12:41 PM
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OK. You won the $600M Powerball. Now what?
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Unless you are doing it for a laugh, Lotteries are a tax on the mathematically challenged...
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05-01-2013,
05:18 PM
derekm
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Thet ol' duty cycle.
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Home Shop Welding
Only time i ve hit the limit is when there's been a fault on the machine. The mig is an older machine( early 90s) so I guess its a toughy, but the...
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04-22-2013,
06:13 PM
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OT California solvent ban, can't find naphtha?
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Use heptane, its a pure straight chain alkane. Naptha is a portmanteau for all sorts mixtures of cyclic and non cyclic aliphatic stuff.
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04-16-2013,
12:59 PM
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Tig help...
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Home Shop Welding
MY chinese set has and additional socket so I dont have to unplug the water cooled tig torch. I put a plastic cap over the tig electrode, plug...
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04-12-2013,
07:36 AM
derekm
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What did you weld today?
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Home Shop Welding
4 of these tanks 2000x400x250. Made with 8 compartments 1.5mm Ally for solar heating project. AC Tig, 2.4mm gold 1.5 lanth tungstens
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04-09-2013,
01:28 PM
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OT: Mystery solved...It's not thieves breaking in. It's .......
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Its not only gas that explodes, You can get smoke to explode. The wifes taken up bee keeping and as resident pyromaniac I get to light it. Then you...
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04-08-2013,
11:33 AM
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Camp stove repair project
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IN 1973 after freezing my hands tryingto keep a butane stove warm enough to work in sub zero temperatures in the mountains of wales, I vowed never...
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04-02-2013,
01:07 PM
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Coal
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Thats what they do in powerstations... it ground then blown into the furnance. fluidised bed combustion
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03-29-2013,
05:43 PM
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Turning Tungsten
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tungsten is used in ultra vacuum systems as a pump using its ability to "get" gas molecules.
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03-29-2013,
12:48 PM
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Lead shot for Mini mill column
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on one of the other forums there are entire threads devoted to filling the voids with an epoxy agregate - read concrete with expoxy instead of cement.
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03-29-2013,
10:29 AM
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Ist try at aluminum welding
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tigging ally successfully needs practice ... lots of practice but it can be learnt. My learning times: migging 16gauge steel 1/2hour Tigging 16...
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