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acoop101

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  1. I don't think they are going to ask you for your serial code and you can usually find the help line number on there website. That said at school we have solid works and there is a way to designe a mold then invert it into a mold... That said I have no memory how to do it, it is for mold making.
  2. From what I've gathered and had good luck with to anneal copper it must be heated then quenched, not sure why not sure if it's true but it's worked for me and hopefully some one else can give there opinion on this.
  3. I like that Idea, the only thing I'd be worried about is making it too difficult to move it, I think just keeping it out side away from the banks of welders has worked... we'll see, they are trying to close us down right now.
  4. That thing just screams foundry to me, cut that thing in half hinge the top to the bottom line it with some castable refractory and start melting metal, backyardmetalcasting.com has great information of this particular hobby.
  5. At work we have a Galv. SlackTub that students keep droping pieces of quarter inch steel into, and every once in a while they drop it in corner first and it punches a hole in the bottom and makes a big mess. This happened a couple of times in the shop then we gave up and made them take the metal out side to cool it. Any way now when this happens we let the thing dry out then take it into the shop which has a high volume ventalation system and just weld a piece of 10 guage on the bottom. Come to think of it I don't think the original bottom even exists.
  6. I'd talk to your local truck shop. Trucks with air brakes have a mechanism that once the air brake tanks come up to preasure this valve collects all of the condensate, oil and any other liquid that has built up in the tank and expells it with a little bit of compressed air. I'm not sure if this is pressure operated or if it's electronic but it should be a simple install.
  7. Another website you might want to check out is melting metal in a home foundry, backyard metalcasting, metal casting and the forums on their website. As for using brass cases I have cast with them before and they work well just make sure you don't over heat them and once the metal melts don't hold it at temperature for more than 5-10 min to keep the zinc loss to a minimum. I also used a layer of charcoal over the top of the melt as a cover to keep the air contact to a minimum, there are people over on backyard metal casting who used smashed up glass for the same reason.
  8. Well at least he didn't try and cover it up. I guess if you are in a real pinch you could get one of your 30's refilled just to get working again. Propane is propane no?
  9. Verry nice looking, what are you going to use for a handle?
  10. heat and bend, it will take a lot less time and will look cleaner in the end imho. ;)
  11. well thanks for the information. I have the "horrible problem" of only having acess to a TIG set up right now that's why I asked for tips on TIGing this project. How hot should I heat it to before welding?
  12. TIG because it's what's usually set up and since I mainly do small jobs it takes less time to tig the project than it would to tare the system appart to set it up for stick.
  13. I guess I'm an engineer so please tell me what RCH is:D, The silly part is that I'm in school right now to become an industrial tech engineer.
  14. so this "cracking" that i've heared high carbon steels like to do isn't going to cause it to snap with the heating of forging?
  15. I am wondering if anyone has any recomendations on how to TIG weld o1 tool steel to a piece of 1018 mild steel. I have a piece of o1 tool steel that is about 4 inches long and .5 inches around. I don't like to use tongs to forge knives so I was thinking of welding a piece of mild steel to the piece as a handle. Was wondering if anyone has any recomendations on how to weld this up so it would hold up to forging?:confused: I was thinking of preheating it to about 500 degrees then welding it. Any recomendations or experience would be apriciated. Thanks in advance.
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