June 14, 20214 yr That saves the hassle of welding the stuff, Super missle Weld should do it with preheat and a slow cooling. Ayup, that looks like a tamper from here. Frosty The Lucky.
June 14, 20214 yr I have a friend that swears by super missile weld. He has used it on one of his own (really beat) anvils. I have asked him to bring it by for me to test the results but haven't had a chance yet.
June 14, 20214 yr 5 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: As many of the folks here know; I'm using a phone that is OLDER than some of the folks here and so the pictures are often quite bad sorry, well now i know M.J.Lampert
June 14, 20214 yr If you have a specific need for information I can write down what all the tags attached to the jointer says. I remember that the front one was DELTA Milwaukee and on the back there was a Rockwell tools(?) division. It's just fairly large; built like I like them---too heavy to steal without risking your health! It doesn't show signs of hard use either. I was thinking of rounding the top of the tamper a bit and put in a hemispherical divot and call it a SCA armour repair rivet anvil.
June 14, 20214 yr Finally got around to unloading some of the dumpster finds from the other week. Turns out the 4'x10' stainless sheet I drug out is 304 and 14Ga. Found a tag stapled to the pallet it was on.
June 15, 20214 yr I got this at a flea market the other day for $10US. Does anyone have any info on the circle P mark?
June 16, 20214 yr Salvaged from someone’s trash. Out of certification, but if the propane folks won’t take it in exchange, I’ll make it into something.
June 16, 20214 yr Minions and chimnea are popular. I forgot who used propane tank steel for the lower carbon component in a pattern welded blade. It's not low C, IIRC it sparked closer to medium C. Frosty The Lucky.
June 16, 20214 yr I’m thinking of splitting it vertically and using the two halves side by side to hold water under a small torch cutting table. Something that can fold up small and store on the shelf of my welding table.
June 16, 20214 yr Winged pigs are also popular out of the smaller tanks. I've also done jackolanterns, tho those are a little easier with a plasma cutter but no reason a grinder with a cutoff wheel couldn't get the job done. I have a few propane tanks but haven't looked up how to safely cut them up yet. I mainly have used the helium tanks. I will be researching that soon tho.
June 16, 20214 yr I made a hydraulic fluid reservoir for The Pressciousss out of an old propane tank last year. Opened the valve to relieve the pressure, unscrewed the valve stem with a pipe wrench, turned it upside-down to drain out any residual fluid, then filled it with water and detergent and left it in the sun for a week. Rinse, repeat, let dry for another week. Seems to have worked: nothing exploded. (Also, important first step: warn the neighbors that I was doing all this, that it was perfectly safe, and that they might smell a few whiffs of mercaptan. Increase the goodwill; decrease the risk of the fire department paying a visit.)
June 16, 20214 yr Thanks John. Sounds like the usual. I just prefer safe over sorry and have a healthy respect over potential explosives. Read a Lot about welding gas tanks and heard of many doing it "safely" but still ended up buying a new one for my 66 jeep cut over welding a few pin holes. I've heard way more success stories of using propane tanks. I just prefer to play it overly safe on some things.
June 16, 20214 yr Half a cup of chlorox in a 20lb. propane tank full of water cleans out the mercaptan. Safe is good, Good Das, have a scooby snack. Frosty The Lucky.
June 16, 20214 yr Good to know, Frosty; thanks. One thing I know NOT to try is cutting an enclosed tank with a torch.
June 16, 20214 yr Author Or cutting a tank with anything that generates sparks. An old water tank that you would think would be safe turned out to be rested on the inside and was full of rust and dust particles in the air. This was just waiting for an ignition source. I told the fellow to add plenty of water to reduce the rust and dust particles in the air while I left.
June 16, 20214 yr If the gas residue is properly flushed out, I don’t know that something like a cutting disk in an angle grinder would be an issue. The problem with a cutting torch, as I understand it, is the possibility of pressurized gasses building up inside.
June 16, 20214 yr At the last shop/dealership I worked at we has access to barrels they kept the concentrate to washer fluid in. (Sorry, forget the chemical at the moment. Methanol?) Anyway one tech was going to cut the top off with a plasma cutter and make a burn barrel without rinsing the supposed empty barrel/drum. . Luckily he only reached his arm to the edge of the barrel to start an arc with the plasma cutter torch. When he did there was a bit of an explosion and the barrel flew up around 5-6 feet from the bottom bulging out. No one was hurt but that cemented my healthy fear /respect for that kind of thing. I rinsed out a couple of the same barrels several times and had no issues cutting them.
June 16, 20214 yr Author I saw a 55 gallon steel drum to the side of a building and ask if I could have it. Sure. Looking closer the barrel was marked motor oil, but the top was hooved up a bit. Released the bung just enough to release some of the pressure and there was a definite odor of something that could be flammable. Went back in and ask what was in it and the fellow said oh that motor oil barrel, that is what we used for the racing fuel last weekend. Don't worry it is empty. I no longer trust labels on steel drums as they may have been reused before you got there. Purchasing brand new steel is a lot less expensive that a hospital visit. The down time, lost time, pain, and should be factored in also.
June 16, 20214 yr 16 minutes ago, Daswulf said: Methanol Yup. Used in windshield washer fluid because of its -144°F freezing point and its easy miscibility with water. The 52°F flash point might have had something to do with it going Boom.
June 16, 20214 yr Not to mention the instant heat and serious sparks shooting into the barrel from a plasma cutter. I also know, sorry, knew a guy that got blown through a garage door cutting a barrel that had contained oil , with a grinder, that was not rinsed out. He was a Big guy nicknamed Giant. Tho that put him in the hospital, ultimately it was cancer they found in him while in the hospital and the treatment that got him.
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