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Thanks Scott, I hadn't thought about horns, but good call on that, too.

Thank you. I neglected to add that included was also a 24" round by 3/4" thick glass tabletop. But I did not take a picture, so, as we all know, that didn't happen.

I had the same thought, or claws even.

Not really my pet, but it was persistently returning to hang out with me as I worked yesterday in the hot box.

I took the day off from work last Friday, I had to go to Asheville to pick up my latest auction wins. For 210 bucks I was able to fill up the back of my little truck. Hundreds of pounds of sheet, plate steel, round stock, stainless round stock and plate. Loads of cutoff pieces of odds and ends, with a couple shelfs on which to place them. Old school water based fire extinguishers with the end cut off, ball bearings of various sizes and so much more. The big money went to the post vise, a bit small, 4 inch jaws. What I thought was a bag of chain turned out to be these teeth, a hundred or more of them in there. I have no idea what they went onto. Some agricultural implement?

You can get Plistix right here. Check IFI store. I need to PM Glenn soon myself (gotta get paid first) to order some for mine.

I took Mikey's advice and so a single burner Mr. Volcano is on the way to me. I got 30+ pounds of the waste YSZ powder home and will have to sieve it to remove unwanted material. It was more contaminated than I had expected. Following that, I will sometime begin experimenting with the YSZ as an additive to Plistix and perhaps a top dusting, hoping that it will stick.

Is that single burner the Hero Mikey? Edit: Just took a couple clicks to answer my own question, they only have two propane forge models. Thanks Mikey, please excuse my laziness. I am taking your advice, thank you.

Maybe a local food bank or charity would send volunteers to gather them for less fortunate people.

They are not the edible type?

Always beautiful work. That is a lot of apples!

If you do a search for Amperit 825.001, that is much of the waste YSZ material I would be getting. Today, while working in a booth, I noticed that on top of the dust collector inlet box has maybe a 2 inch thick pile of powder on it. I suspect that will be much less contaminated.

I am not thinking about completely reinventing the wheel. While it would be nice to get some bricks or substrate plasma sprayed with YSZ, I don't think that they would let me pull off a government job like that. Too expensive. I am thinking about its potential use in something that already is formulated, like Plistix, as an enhancing additive. I also don't think that I want to figure out a high temperature binder for that, in itself.

Frosty, the dust collector inlet in the booths are a big box, with a front grate so no one gets sucked up into the dust collector. There is a hood on the top which goes outside to the dust collectors. LARGE duct collectors, high volume. There is a lot of material inside the box at the back and bottom as it did not remain suspended in the air. Mikey, my post was in part due to your previous post, in which you mentioned Zirconium flour. What I am talking about here is Yttria stabilized Zirconia, not Alumina at all.

You know I have been thinking for some time about the possibility of gathering up some of the waste material we have here at work. We do thermal spray here and quite a bit of TBC's. Thermal Barrier Coatings. Most of that is Ytrria stabilized Zirconia. What does not melt or get deposited onto the parts ends up on the floor or in the dust collector. That is, what does not actually get sucked up into the dust collector. One potential downside is that it will be contaminated with some of the bond coat powder, MCrAlY mostly, where M is Nickle or Cobalt. Maybe some process could get them separated due to the weight difference of the materials. What are your thoughts about that folks?

Scott, that may be related to what I heard is called "whitewashing". What I heard is that people steal mail from mailboxes, looking for checks that they can change the payee and also maybe the amount. Watch for the check to clear with the correct amount.

Alrighty then, Scott.

They are on a sliding hinge so that the gap can open as the batter cooks and rises. Otherwise, most of the batter would get squeezed out of the sides. Picture a pin for one plate which lies in a vertical groove in the other.

Just as it is often suggested with mystery steels, you could make a couple sample coupons to test for hardenability. My ASM Metals Reference book listed some that are "age hardenable". However, I do not know what that process is carried out.

I know that you are talking about forging, but I will add that certain machining operations that can cause Titanium fires if not done properly. Not all Titanium alloys are harden-able by heat treatment.

Here is an old publication that I found: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/MONO/nbsmonograph41.pdf We have an optical pyrometer here, I do not calibrate it. I do know that they are supposed to set it to the emissivity of that which is being measured, for optimal accuracy.

Last on Apr 22. He had posted a thread about dealing with devastating events that many of us chimed in on. Maybe he is busy dealing with some stuff still. Likewise, I hope all is well, too.

Hi LA, sorry I am a bit late getting back to the discussion. I want to male clear that my answer was in no way intended to look down on you. Sometimes things are more easily done from one person to the next, no matter what it may be. Many people have a natural ability for certain things. I did not have the answer for your next question, but I knew that there are plenty others here who would.

I found this quite quickly: https://www.hannibalcarbide.com/documents/pre-ream-drill-size-chart.pdf

It is quite likely that an HVAC supplier is NOT going to let you have refrigerant tanks, full or empty, if you are not a licensed HVAC technician. Try a scrapyard, yard/garage sale, ask people you know.